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31 Jan, 07:39


The "Chronicle of Georgia" is a monument located on Keeni Hill near the Tbilisi sea. It was created by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli in 1985 but was never fully finished.

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31 Jan, 05:54


"Our banner is Leninism!", soviet poster, 1964

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30 Jan, 19:18


Yury Andropov (future leader of the Soviet Union) at Komsomol work in Karelia. 1940

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30 Jan, 16:53


At sauna of “Moskva” swimming pool. Moscow. 1957. Photo by Valeri Gende-Rote

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30 Jan, 14:36


"Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party — forward, to the victory of communism!", soviet-era banner

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30 Jan, 10:32


Hunters and a helicopter somewhere in Yakutia, 1970

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30 Jan, 07:36


"Communists are always ahead!", soviet poster, 1967

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30 Jan, 06:58


Meeting of soldiers and commanders of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts after breaking the siege of Leningrad, January 1943 (photo by Semyon Nordshteyn)

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29 Jan, 19:12


"Visit the USSR a country of scientific and social progress", tourism poster, 1963

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29 Jan, 15:48


Children in solfeggio class at the arts school in Sofiyevka village, photo by Anatoly Kremko (1981)

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29 Jan, 10:55


Soviet soldiers preparing the rafts to cross the Dnieper (the sign reads "To Kiev!"). The Battle of Dnieper, 1943

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29 Jan, 06:49


Soviet scientists study two turtles - the first living creatures to fly around the Moon on the Zond-5 spacecraft. USSR, 1968

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28 Jan, 21:58


The Rolls-Royce car that V. I. Lenin used in winter

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28 Jan, 14:59


“What is the result of a bribe?” , Soviet poster, 1922

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28 Jan, 10:48


A guide for foreigners traveling to the USSR "Visit the USSR" (1938)

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28 Jan, 05:42


Leonid Brezhnev and Josip Broz Tito on a hunting trip. USSR 1970s

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23 Jan, 23:24


At the VEF recreation center, Latvian SSR, 1977:

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23 Jan, 23:15


Restaurant on one of the central streets of Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, 1972

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23 Jan, 19:57


Demonstration in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, 1980s

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23 Jan, 14:51


Cars drive along Lubyanka Square in front of the KGB building. Moscow, 1980. Photo by Benoit Gysembergh

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23 Jan, 14:35


"Peace to the peoples!", Soviet poster, 1961

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23 Jan, 07:57


Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky at a meeting with Cuban youth, 1965

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22 Jan, 22:04


Image of the surface of Venus taken by the Soviet spacecraft Venera 14 in March 1982.

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22 Jan, 19:34


"Strengthen our friendship!", soviet poster, 1964

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22 Jan, 16:22


Students of Kabul University in a chemistry lab, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, 1986. Photo by Abbas Attar

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22 Jan, 12:15


Soviet world champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved the lives of 20 people in 1976 when he saw a trolleybus plunge into a reservoir. 1980s

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22 Jan, 05:26


Family making pelmeni together, USSR, 1982

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21 Jan, 20:47


Sea coast in Gagra. Abkhaz ASSR, 1974.

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21 Jan, 15:43


Village kitchen, Kuban region, USSR, 1976 (photo by Yuri Rybtchinski)

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21 Jan, 10:05


Pizzeria "Adazhi" on the Riga-Tallinn motorway, built by the Latvian agricultural company "Adazhi" together with Yugoslav companies, 1988. (Photo by Vladimir Semenov)

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21 Jan, 06:02


"Moskovskaya" vodka advertisement, 1980's

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20 Jan, 19:46


"Friendship of the Socialist Countries", soviet lithuanian poster, 1985

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20 Jan, 16:19


Armenian-American heavy metal "System of a Down", late 1990s

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20 Jan, 14:04


Leaders of Georgian SSR, Armenian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR - Eduard Shevardnadze, Karen Demirchyan and Heydar Aliyev at the opening of the Yerevan metro. March, 1981

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20 Jan, 13:25


Revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (nicknamed "Iron Felix") pictured with wife Sofia and son Janek in Lugano, Switzerland, October 1918

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20 Jan, 06:54


Soviet gymnast Sergei Viktorovich Diomidov, 1968

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18 Jan, 20:33


"Alcohol is the cause of injuries at work", soviet safety poster, 1987

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18 Jan, 15:05


To Moscow with victory, 1945. Photo by Mikhail Grachyov

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18 Jan, 14:01


Winter in Dudinka, North of Russia (1979)

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18 Jan, 10:25


Valley of the village of Vaga. Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1985.

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18 Jan, 06:59


"A red tapist is worse than a rodent or a worm for fields and machines", soviet poster, 1927

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17 Jan, 20:17


Date night at the club (Stavropol Region, USSR, 1956)

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17 Jan, 15:57


Rural library of Barskoye-Gorodische, Vladimir oblast, USSR, 1960

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17 Jan, 11:22


"The ideas of Leninism are winning!", soviet poster, 1961

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17 Jan, 07:58


Mikhail Kalinin (head of Soviet State) with his son and mother in his native village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (USSR, 1925)

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16 Jan, 20:50


Soviet band "Poyushchiye Gitary" (The Singing Guitars), 1968

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16 Jan, 19:18


Class at the children's chess club in Yalta, Ukrainian SSR, 1988

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16 Jan, 06:55


Sledging. USSR, 1976

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15 Jan, 19:52


At the registry Office, Moscow, 1930s. Photo by Emmanuel Evzerikhin.

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15 Jan, 15:09


"Lenin is our banner.", soviet tajik poster, 1969

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15 Jan, 10:13


Irina, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, Stavropol, USSR, 1970s

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15 Jan, 09:21


War photographer Yevgeny Khaldei with the camera received as a gift by Robert Capa during Nuremberg Process, 1946

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15 Jan, 06:49


Children on duty in the school canteen, photo by Y. Dyakonov (1979)

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14 Jan, 20:46


Soviet writer and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak doing gardening at his home near Moscow, 1958. Photo by Jerry Cooke

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14 Jan, 19:58


Party Pictures, by Alexander Grek, 1986

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14 Jan, 13:46


"Trust. Admission to the Communists in the Partisan Region", painting by Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Litvinov, 1975

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06 Jan, 19:25


Winter in Tashkent. The publishing house of the Central Committee of Uzbekistan’s Communist Party. Photo by Miron Penson (1989).

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06 Jan, 16:59


Motorcycle Izh Jupiter-4, poster from 1980

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06 Jan, 15:53


Vladimir Lenin bust, sculpture by Naoum Aronson, 1933

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06 Jan, 10:45


A column of buses with children on the way to a pioneer camp. USSR, Moscow, 1971. Photo by Lev Ustinov

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06 Jan, 07:55


Demonstrators on Red Square in Moscow rejoice at the safe landing of cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky, 1963

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05 Jan, 20:00


"Kazakhstan is the land of iron and bread...", soviet poster, 1972

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05 Jan, 15:42


"Friend". Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, 1975. Photo by Igor Kostin

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05 Jan, 14:42


Picking cranberries in Murmansk oblast (USSR, 1974)

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05 Jan, 11:46


Soviet Chess "Red and White". 1934

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04 Jan, 19:33


"V.I. Lenin with N.K. Krupskaya at the opening of the first rural power station in the village of Kashino. November 14, 1920", painting by Nikolay Sysoev, 1969

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04 Jan, 15:19


Zuleykha Seyidmammadova was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat. She participated in over 40 aerial battles including the battle of Stalingrad.

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04 Jan, 08:10


Soviet poster “I decided to change, I became friends with sports. And I don’t regret it: I’ll never get sick!”, 1978

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03 Jan, 23:39


“The work of an animal breeder is honorable work!”, soviet poster, 1950

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03 Jan, 20:46


Soviet Kazakh opera singer, actress and music teacher Bibigul Tulegenova. USSR, 1970

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03 Jan, 16:07


"Arrest of I.V. Stalin at the Kalashnikov Exchange", painting by Nikolay Vasilyevich Levushin, 1951

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03 Jan, 13:25


“A Winter Day in the Studio” by Viktor Popkov (1959)

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03 Jan, 12:41


Navy Day in Gorky Park. USSR, Moscow, July 29, 1989. Photo by Igor Stomakhin

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03 Jan, 07:49


Funeral of Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Seregin on Red Square, March 30, 1968

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02 Jan, 15:46


Young Pioneers camp on a walk alongside special guests from Afghanistan. Crimean ASSR, 1982 (photo by A. Bachinin)

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02 Jan, 14:27


First meeting. Azerbaijan SSR, 1966

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02 Jan, 10:48


Girl blowing soap bubbles. USSR, Moscow, 1983

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01 Jan, 23:33


VDNKh - Kolkhoz Square in the evening illumination. USSR, Moscow, 1954

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01 Jan, 19:20


In a reading hall at the Lenin State Library of the USSR. Photo by Fred Grinberg (Moscow, 1980).

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01 Jan, 14:42


Illustration from "Tekhnika Molodezhi" (Technology of Youth) magazine, 10/1966

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01 Jan, 07:43


"Happy New Year - the year of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution!", soviet postcard, 1967

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31 Dec, 12:58


Grandfather Frost in the snow after a bath, 1985. Photo by Valery Zufarov

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30 Dec, 09:48


"We are strong in our Leninist friendship!", soviet poster, 1984

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30 Dec, 07:26


"In memory of the fallen", painting by Dmitrij Dmitriyevich Žilinskij, 1959-1960

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29 Dec, 22:04


Circus animal trainer Stephan Isaakyan plays chess with chimpanzee Ricky. Armenian SSR, Yerevan, 1965

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29 Dec, 18:07


Ded Moroz and Snegurochka with miners in the Chelyabinsk Region, 1980s. (photo by Boris Klipinitzer)

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29 Dec, 17:52


"New Year tree in Sokolniki", soviet filmstrip, 1977

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29 Dec, 15:34


Fidel Castro embracing Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, USSR, 1964

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29 Dec, 10:42


A goat tied to the gun of a destroyed German Panzerkampfwagen IV near Minsk. The photograph inspired the Soviet poet Samuil Marshak to write the poem “The Tiger and the Little Goat.” (1944)

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29 Dec, 06:20


Ryshkanovka (Rîșcani) residential area in Kishinev (Chișinău), Moldavian SSR, 1966 (photo by Boris Kaufman)

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28 Dec, 20:00


"Stalin and Choibalsan", mongolian painting by Ürjingiin Yadamsüren, 1951

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28 Dec, 17:27


"Life Again!". Crimean ASSR, Sevastopol, May 1944. Photo by Evgeny Khaldey

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28 Dec, 11:47


Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, first German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn and Erich Honecker during a reception in Berlin, GDR, 1978

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28 Dec, 11:28


Yuri Gagarin in a Musketeer costume celebrates the New Year with his family, 1965

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28 Dec, 06:03


Construction of the Intourist Hotel, 1960s (photo by Nikolai Rakhmanov)

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27 Dec, 17:43


During the parade on the day of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. USSR, November 7, 1967.

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27 Dec, 10:34


Soviet poster "Perestroika. Happy New Year!", 1990

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27 Dec, 07:58


Birdkeeper from Kyrgyzstan, 1960s. Photo by Dmitry Baltermants

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27 Dec, 06:42


Victor Tsoi. USSR, 1986. Photo by Sergey Borisov.

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26 Dec, 20:38


"The Soviet Union - The Motherland of Cosmonautics", soviet belarusian poster, 1986

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26 Dec, 16:43


Soviet advertising poster “Demand a full filling of beer to the 0.5 liter line”, 1940

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26 Dec, 13:47


Snow Cheburashka in Lytkarino, Moscow oblast. Photo by V. Dobrikov (1985).

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10 Dec, 05:32


"Exercise in the morning - your health is in order!", soviet poster, 1958

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09 Dec, 19:09


Assembly workers Svetlana Sosojewa and Irina Yadykina, Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR, 1982 (photo by Rudolf Dik, Semyon Maisterman)

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09 Dec, 16:11


"First World War - 10,000,000.
Second World War - 55,000,000.
Third World War -
everyone!", Soviet anti-war poster, 1980s

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09 Dec, 11:40


Three Yerevan comrades – an Armenian, a Jew and an Azerbaijani. Armenian SSR, Yerevan, 1963.

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09 Dec, 09:10


Marshal of the Soviet Union, Konstantin Rokossovsky, on his way to Red square from the Kremlin for the Victory Day Parade, Moscow (1945)

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09 Dec, 07:12


Young people in a city park are waiting to enjoy shashlik. Moscow, 1976

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08 Dec, 23:27


Snow Maiden saves Father Frost, 1968

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08 Dec, 20:23


Distribution of milk at the Mayakovskaya metro station during the bombing, Moscow, 1941

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08 Dec, 18:30


Young flower growers in the greenhouse of the pioneer camp "Orlyonok". July 1977.

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08 Dec, 15:32


The gun of the battery commander M.N. Kolobov in action, March 1942

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08 Dec, 12:15


"Young people, master the theory of Marxism-Leninism!", Soviet Belarusian poster, 1975

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08 Dec, 07:12


American gymnast Doris Fuchs-Brause and Soviet boxer Boris Nikonorov at the 1960 Olympic Games

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07 Dec, 20:51


"Beer is healthy and nutritious". Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, 1980

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07 Dec, 18:24


"Visit Soviet Union", tourism poster in Swedish language, 1930s

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07 Dec, 14:00


Ice swimmers in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, 1960s.

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07 Dec, 12:12


In one of the microdistricts of the city of Surgut, 1974. Photo by A. Zubtsov

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07 Dec, 07:37


The concrete arches (also known as 'Andropov's Ears') by Otar Kalandarishvili, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, 1989

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06 Dec, 18:53


Mil Mi-10 helicopter displayed at the 1965 Paris Air Show

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06 Dec, 12:58


"Vanquishing Cancer." Soviet mosaic at the Cancer Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2017

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06 Dec, 10:28


American actress and social activist Jane Fonda jogs with Soviet women in central Moscow, 1990.
(photo by Liu Heung Shing)

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21 Nov, 08:16


"The Victors", Konstantin Antonov, 1984–1985

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20 Nov, 19:32


Sausages made at the Tallinn Meat Processing Plant, Estonian SSR, 1950s

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20 Nov, 16:53


"Poem about immortality. Triptych", painting by Amandos Atibekovich Akanaev, 1985

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20 Nov, 16:10


Riga grocery store in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, 1987

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20 Nov, 11:26


From left to right: Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space) with American communists Angela Davis and Kendra Alexander, 1972

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20 Nov, 07:33


"Love for Life", drawing by Sergey Besedin, 1960

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20 Nov, 06:50


"Cold War. Knock-out!" , soviet poster, 1990

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19 Nov, 19:59


"Long live the ideological unity of the indestructible camp of socialism!", soviet poster, 1956

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19 Nov, 12:59


Freshmen solving a complex equation, 1968. Photo by Marius Baranauskas

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19 Nov, 09:59


"Long live Leninism". Festival on the occasion of the Olympics on the square in the center of Kyiv. Ukrainian SSR, 1980

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19 Nov, 08:22


A beaten communist holding a portrait of Joseph Stalin during a march to Red Square in May 1993

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19 Nov, 05:28


“Before Sunrise”, painting by Gennadiy Fadin, 1985

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18 Nov, 19:17


Motorcycle "Izh Planeta Sport", 1970s

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18 Nov, 14:11


A girl pets Soviet cosmonaut dogs Belka and Strelka, 1960

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18 Nov, 12:38


"Beginning. 1920s in the village", painting by Ivan Ivanovich Andreev, 1981

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18 Nov, 10:37


Car radio Ternava-302, USSR, 1989

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18 Nov, 07:30


"Long live Kyiv!", painting by Alexander Turansky, 1985

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18 Nov, 07:05


Nuclear-powered icebreaker 'Russia' in the Kara Sea, Arctic Ocean, 1986.
(photo: Semyon Maisterman)

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17 Nov, 19:01


At the Moscow militsiya department, 1950. Photo by Anatoly Garanin

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17 Nov, 16:16


Meeting with her husband, 1950s (photo by Leonid Bergoltsev)

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17 Nov, 15:08


“Slippery Slope”, soviet anti-alcohol poster, 1988

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17 Nov, 10:46


Vase in the "Ukrainian SSR" pavilion at the VDNKh, Moscow, 1954. Photo by Anatoly Garanin

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17 Nov, 07:18


"Interrogation of Communists", painting by Boris Ioganson, 1933

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16 Nov, 21:42


"Cybernetics", painting by Victor Ivanovich Ryzhikh, 1985

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16 Nov, 17:38


Belgian delegation of revolutionary youth in the building where the execution of the Romanov royal family took place. USSR, Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), December 20, 1927

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16 Nov, 13:53


Soviet polar explorer feeding condensed milk to a hungry bear, 1980s.

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16 Nov, 10:38


Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev (with raised hand) speaks at the first congress of the peoples of the East. Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic, Baku. September 1920

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16 Nov, 06:40


A column of Jewish proletarians symbolically buries Saturday (Shabbat), Moscow, 1929

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15 Nov, 20:10


"For clean environment", soviet belarusian poster, 1970s

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15 Nov, 16:44


Chef Yunus Akhmetzyanov of the House of Tatar Cuisine presents Tatar desserts (Kazan, USSR, 1970s)

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15 Nov, 12:10


"Hydropolis", painting by Auseklis Bauskenieks, 1980

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15 Nov, 07:36


All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. G. Lvova (right), a yunnat (young naturalist) from Kostroma region presents the pumpkins she grew weighing 30-38 kg. Photo by N. Kuleshov, S. Preobrazhensky (Moscow, November 1954).

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12 Nov, 20:18


Street Artists, USSR, 1990

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12 Nov, 16:04


Mongolian painting by Ürjingiin Yadamsüren celebrating the friendship between Mongolia and the USSR.

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12 Nov, 11:20


"AvtoVAZ" plant worker Nikolay Balashov having breakfast in his kitchen with his family. Tolyatti, 1986 (photo by Boris Kavashkin, Valery Khristoforov)

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12 Nov, 09:52


"Connection lost!", soviet poster, 1970s

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12 Nov, 09:30


Collected works of Vladimir Lenin, USSR, 1970s

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12 Nov, 07:42


View of Tallinn, Estonian SSR, 1966

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11 Nov, 20:44


High school student Tatyana Kruglova and her mother tend to house plants. October 1955. Photo by M. Filimonov

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11 Nov, 15:07


Yerevan and the snow-capped peak of Mount Ararat, Armenian SSR, 1967 (photo by Dean Conger)

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11 Nov, 14:13


Landscape (By the lake), painting by Alexander Lyubimov, 1939

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11 Nov, 11:27


Kursky train station in Moscow (1977)

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11 Nov, 06:36


"Don't hang on to vehicles!", soviet georgian poster, 1950s

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10 Nov, 19:26


Monument to Ho Chi Minh in Moscow by sculptor V.E. Tsigal and architect R.G. Kananin. The monument was unveiled on 18 May 1990. On the pedestal are inscribed the words of Ho Chi Minh: "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom".

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10 Nov, 14:29


"Russian America 250 years" (250th anniversary of the discovery of the northwestern part of the American continent by the Russians), soviet poster, 1991

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10 Nov, 10:17


"Sun Bowl", sci-fi art by Gennady Grigorievich Golobokov, 1970s

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10 Nov, 07:20


Trolleybus driver on route 22, Moscow, 1964

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09 Nov, 19:04


Street in Leningrad, 1966

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09 Nov, 12:13


Before a Long Journey, painting by Geli Korzhev, 1970–76

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09 Nov, 09:21


East German border guards, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence, after the borders were opened according to the announcement by the GDR government, November 10, 1989 (photo by Lutz Schmidt)

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09 Nov, 05:51


"We are proud that the Bolshevik organization of Baku and Azerbaijan was created, nurtured and hardened in battles by Comrade Stalin", soviet azerbaijani poster, 1949

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04 Nov, 19:20


"Don't abuse cosmetics!", soviet georgian poster, 1978

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04 Nov, 14:05


"Song of Victory", painting by Moisey Ivanovich Toidze, 1948

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04 Nov, 12:24


Children of miners in a pioneer camp on the Don, 1949

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04 Nov, 09:05


Revolving restaurant in the Youth Palace in Yerevan, 1980

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04 Nov, 07:41


Meeting of fellow soldiers in Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, 1984

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03 Nov, 19:13


Long livers from the Chlou village playing nardy, Abkhaz ASSR, August 1974

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03 Nov, 13:57


Milkmaid and record-breaking cow Maya. Malenkov collective farm in the village of Novoye Mansurkino (1956).

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03 Nov, 13:27


Monument of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship (Stary Oskol, Russia). Opened September 8, 1979

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03 Nov, 10:21


"Victory Parade", painting by Sergey Nikolaevich Bogatkin, 1947

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03 Nov, 06:24


"Dangerous path", soviet anti-smoking poster, 1985

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02 Nov, 17:01


In soviet school, 1985

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02 Nov, 13:48


Drinks produced at the Tbilisi Soft Drinks Factory, Georgian SSR, 1986

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02 Nov, 09:45


Moscow basketball team, 1940s

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02 Nov, 08:04


Geography lesson at a girls' school, Leningrad, 1954 (photo by Evgeny Khaldey)

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01 Nov, 20:47


Durov Animal Theater. Tim the monkey is enjoying a piece of pumpkin, Moscow, 1959. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin

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01 Nov, 12:49


"Down with the invaders!", soviet poster, 1939
The inscription on the poster: "The war in China is the largest national liberation war of a semi-colonial country that history knows. D. Manuilsky"

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01 Nov, 11:04


Bench, 1961. Photographer Antanas Sutkus

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01 Nov, 10:06


Life is good. USSR, 1965. Photographers Dmitry Vozdvizhensky, Nina Sviridova

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01 Nov, 04:17


"For peaceful cooperation in space", soviet poster, 1980s

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31 Oct, 18:54


Skilled expert of Moscow-based Krasny Proletary machine-building plant advises young workers. Moscow, 1967

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29 Oct, 19:16


"Collective farmers visitng Ivan Michurin", painting by Pyotr Ivanovich Kotov, 1939

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29 Oct, 14:46


Movie poster for "The Apostate" (Otstupnik), a 1987 Soviet science fiction film directed by Valery Rubinchik.

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29 Oct, 14:14


Joseph Stalin on a board of cruiser "Molotov", 1947 (photo by N. Shcheglov)

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29 Oct, 10:40


A Kyrgyz horsewoman overtakes her rivals at a race, 1936. Photographer Max Alpert

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29 Oct, 06:50


Quality control at the Alexandrov Radio Factory, 1970

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28 Oct, 20:07


"We stand guard", soviet poster, 1965

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28 Oct, 19:00


A courtyard in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, 1983

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28 Oct, 17:27


Representatives of the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian SSR in national costumes at the exhibition of industry and trade of the USSR in London. UK, 1968

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28 Oct, 12:51


Control panel of the power unit of the South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Nikolaev region, 1984

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28 Oct, 10:50


"Waiting for concrete trucks", Moscow region, 1981 (photo by Pavel Sukharev)

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28 Oct, 06:29


Anti-aircraft gunner Yelena Ivanova. May 1945. Photo by Galina Sanko

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27 Oct, 20:52


Station V.I. Lenin Square, Tashkent Metro, Uzbek SSR, 1982-1983

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27 Oct, 19:50


"Peace! Friendship!", soviet poster, 1962

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27 Oct, 13:54


Car repair, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, 1975. Photographer Antanas Sutkus

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27 Oct, 08:46


"Space flight is not a personal feat, it is an achievement of communism. Yuri Gagarin", Soviet poster, 1981

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26 Oct, 21:27


"The brave are not afraid of space …", soviet poster, 1982

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26 Oct, 18:35


"Spring in Crimea", soviet poster, 1943-1944
Inscriptions under drawings (from top to bottom) -
"A walk in the mountains"
"Swimming"
"Dead hour"

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26 Oct, 14:26


Portrait of a worker, Tajik SSR, 1972

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26 Oct, 11:41


"In a break between battles. Kalinin Front". 1943.

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26 Oct, 08:10


Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game ("Plyumbum, ili Opasnaya igra") is a 1987 Soviet coming-of-age drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.

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25 Oct, 19:24


"On duty." The guard duty is performed by Private Abdula Akhmedov. Photo by V. Gzhelsky, 1954

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25 Oct, 16:58


A sweets seller at the Blue Domes cafe dines on shurpa soup, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, 1984

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25 Oct, 14:44


Petrograd militiamen, 1917

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25 Oct, 11:54


"Learn a skill", soviet poster, 1986

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25 Oct, 08:35


VAZ-2121 Niva off-road cars in the assembly shop of the Volga Automobile Plant. Tolyatti, 1978 (photo by Yuri Belozerov)

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25 Oct, 07:37


"Back to Mars! Soviet interplanetary stations Mars-2 and Mars-3 in flight", soviet poster, 1971

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24 Oct, 19:29


Crossing the river of the advance detachment of scouts under the command of sergeant major Sizov, 1942

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24 Oct, 14:58


A veteran near Geliy Korzhev’s painting “Traces of War.” 1964

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24 Oct, 09:20


"The Undefeated", painting by Moisey Volshtein, Fedor Kostenko, Alexander Filbert (1947)

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24 Oct, 06:57


"Soviet Life" magazine, April 1985

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23 Oct, 18:50


"Fraternal greetings to all peoples fighting for the victory of democracy and socialism!", soviet poster, 1949

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23 Oct, 17:43


Medical students at the Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University, Moscow, 1990 (photo by Sergey Ptitsyn)

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23 Oct, 12:29


"Proclamation of the Uzbek SSR", painting by Nigmat Mirzabaevich Kuzybaev, 1987

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23 Oct, 07:18


At the Dobryninskaya metro station, Moscow, 1988 (photo by Pavel Ivanov)

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22 Oct, 12:48


At the outdoor speed skating "The Medeu", Kazakh SSR, 1990 (photo by Oleg Ivanov)

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22 Oct, 09:10


"University students", painting by Valentin Volkov, 1947

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22 Oct, 07:02


"Masha - the leader of the Redskins". USSR, Moscow region, 1981. Photo by Boris Kosarev

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21 Oct, 19:56


"Only a Party guided by an advanced theory can fulfill the role of an advanced fighter.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)" In the background are the books of K. Marx, F. Engels "Selected Works". Soviet poster, 1987

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21 Oct, 12:06


Nikita Khrushchev interrogates a group of German prisoners, 1943

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21 Oct, 07:26


Karaganda residents walking in their hometown, Kazakh SSR, 1986 (photo by Vitaly Arutyunov)

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20 Oct, 18:34


"Our strength is unity! Long live the unity and cohesion of the peoples of the socialist commonwealth! Higher the banner of socialist internationalism!", soviet poster, 1976

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20 Oct, 11:56


Student Boris Yeltsin - coach of the women's volleyball team, Kurgan, USSR, 1952

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20 Oct, 07:32


"Grandpa, I drew the kingdom of heaven!"
"The grandfather sees by his grandson's example - science is crowding out religion.", soviet poster, 1979

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19 Oct, 18:39


At the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the formation of the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Participants in the sports parade. 1938

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19 Oct, 12:59


LuAz-Proto car prototype, USSR, 1989

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19 Oct, 09:35


"I am a son of the country of the Soviets!", soviet poster, 1980

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19 Oct, 05:36


"Spaceflight", lacquer art by Kaleria and Boris Kukuliev, 1980

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18 Oct, 19:11


Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin feeding a baby tiger at the Berlin Zoo, GDR, October 1963 (photo by Ulrich Kohls)

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18 Oct, 15:46


"The black octopus (NATO) threatens war. But our peace and peaceful work is securely protected.", soviet poster, 1983

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18 Oct, 12:28


Tekhnika Molodezhi ("Technology for the Youth") magazine cover, July 1954

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18 Oct, 05:27


Children's railway in Tbilisi, 1930s.

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17 Oct, 18:01


A reindeer herder with a dog by a campfire, 1965 (photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich)

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17 Oct, 13:46


"Writers and the Cosmonaut". H.G. Wells, Aleksey Tolstoy and Jules Verne listen to Yuri Gagarin's lecture. Illustration by Evgeny Tikhonovich Migunov. 1961