Andrew Northall
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On 15th October 1967, in the hero city of Volgograd (Stalingrad), the construction of the monument "The Motherland Calls" was completed.
#TheMotherlandCalls #Volgograd #Stalingrad #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
#TheMotherlandCalls #Volgograd #Stalingrad #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
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6 February 1961: stamps issued in the GDR to commemorate resistance fighters murdered in Nazi concentration camps (2/2)
February 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM
6 February 1961: stamps issued in the GDR to commemorate resistance fighters murdered in Nazi concentration camps (2/2)
Reposted by Andrew Northall
6 February 1961: stamps issued in the GDR to commemorate resistance fighters murdered in Nazi concentration camps (1/2)
February 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
6 February 1961: stamps issued in the GDR to commemorate resistance fighters murdered in Nazi concentration camps (1/2)
Suburban platforms (trams) in the territory of the central station in the 70-80s. Baku. Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR.
#Baku #Azerbaijan #Trams #USSR #SovietUnion
#Baku #Azerbaijan #Trams #USSR #SovietUnion
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Suburban platforms (trams) in the territory of the central station in the 70-80s. Baku. Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR.
#Baku #Azerbaijan #Trams #USSR #SovietUnion
#Baku #Azerbaijan #Trams #USSR #SovietUnion
February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Discussion of Stalin's Report of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to the 17th Congress (the "Congress of Victors"), which took place 26 January to 10 February 1934.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Congress #Victors #CommunistParty #Bolsheviks
#USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Congress #Victors #CommunistParty #Bolsheviks
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Discussion of Stalin's Report of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to the 17th Congress (the "Congress of Victors"), which took place 26 January to 10 February 1934.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Congress #Victors #CommunistParty #Bolsheviks
#USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Congress #Victors #CommunistParty #Bolsheviks
Supporters and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly displaying #PFLP insignia in Occupied #Palestine. 🇵🇸
#PFLP #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree
#PFLP #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree
February 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Supporters and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly displaying #PFLP insignia in Occupied #Palestine. 🇵🇸
#PFLP #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree
#PFLP #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
MiG-29UB Azerbaijan Air Force with F-16C Turkish Air Force. 🇦🇿 🇹🇷
#Azerbaijan #Turkey #Turkish #FighterAircraft #MIG29 #F16 #GroundAttack
#Azerbaijan #Turkey #Turkish #FighterAircraft #MIG29 #F16 #GroundAttack
February 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
MiG-29UB Azerbaijan Air Force with F-16C Turkish Air Force. 🇦🇿 🇹🇷
#Azerbaijan #Turkey #Turkish #FighterAircraft #MIG29 #F16 #GroundAttack
#Azerbaijan #Turkey #Turkish #FighterAircraft #MIG29 #F16 #GroundAttack
Hotel "Peking", Garden Ring, Moscow, Russian Federation 🇷🇺 🇨🇳
#HotelPeking #Hotel #Peking #Russia #Moscow #GardenRing
#HotelPeking #Hotel #Peking #Russia #Moscow #GardenRing
February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Hotel "Peking", Garden Ring, Moscow, Russian Federation 🇷🇺 🇨🇳
#HotelPeking #Hotel #Peking #Russia #Moscow #GardenRing
#HotelPeking #Hotel #Peking #Russia #Moscow #GardenRing
Stakhanovka Erna Ulmis in the Riga silk weaving factory "Rīgas Audums". Riga. Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1952. Evgeny Umnov.
From the archive of "Ogonyok".
#Latvia #Latvian #USSR #SovietUnion #Silk #Weaving #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #Socialism #Riga #Communism #Ogonyok
From the archive of "Ogonyok".
#Latvia #Latvian #USSR #SovietUnion #Silk #Weaving #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #Socialism #Riga #Communism #Ogonyok
February 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Stakhanovka Erna Ulmis in the Riga silk weaving factory "Rīgas Audums". Riga. Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1952. Evgeny Umnov.
From the archive of "Ogonyok".
#Latvia #Latvian #USSR #SovietUnion #Silk #Weaving #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #Socialism #Riga #Communism #Ogonyok
From the archive of "Ogonyok".
#Latvia #Latvian #USSR #SovietUnion #Silk #Weaving #Soviet #Socialist #Republic #Socialism #Riga #Communism #Ogonyok
Semyon Tsvigun delivering a speech at the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Club during a ceremonial meeting of the USSR KGB marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet border troops, Moscow, USSR (1978).
#KGB #USSR #SovietUnion #Tsvigun #Andropov #BorderTroops #Defense #Defence #Motherland
#KGB #USSR #SovietUnion #Tsvigun #Andropov #BorderTroops #Defense #Defence #Motherland
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Semyon Tsvigun delivering a speech at the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Club during a ceremonial meeting of the USSR KGB marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet border troops, Moscow, USSR (1978).
#KGB #USSR #SovietUnion #Tsvigun #Andropov #BorderTroops #Defense #Defence #Motherland
#KGB #USSR #SovietUnion #Tsvigun #Andropov #BorderTroops #Defense #Defence #Motherland
Soviet leader Iosif Stalin inspects a SU-152 produced by the Chelyabinsk Kirov Factory (ChKZ) and delivered to the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 8 September 1943.
#SU152 #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Chelyabinsk #Kirov #Kremlin #Moscow #WW2 #Stalin
#SU152 #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Chelyabinsk #Kirov #Kremlin #Moscow #WW2 #Stalin
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Soviet leader Iosif Stalin inspects a SU-152 produced by the Chelyabinsk Kirov Factory (ChKZ) and delivered to the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, 8 September 1943.
#SU152 #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Chelyabinsk #Kirov #Kremlin #Moscow #WW2 #Stalin
#SU152 #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Chelyabinsk #Kirov #Kremlin #Moscow #WW2 #Stalin
Romanian communist magazine cover with the title "Viața Militară" (Military Life) from 1988.
#Romania #Romanian #Military #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism
#Romania #Romanian #Military #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Romanian communist magazine cover with the title "Viața Militară" (Military Life) from 1988.
#Romania #Romanian #Military #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism
#Romania #Romanian #Military #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism
"People of the world, stand up for a minute!"
On Mamayev Kurgan, volunteers unfolded Stalingrad and St. George ribbons 80 meters long — in honor of the 83rd anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on 2nd February 1943.
#Stalingrad #BattleofStalingrad #Victory #Liberation #USSR
On Mamayev Kurgan, volunteers unfolded Stalingrad and St. George ribbons 80 meters long — in honor of the 83rd anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on 2nd February 1943.
#Stalingrad #BattleofStalingrad #Victory #Liberation #USSR
February 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
"People of the world, stand up for a minute!"
On Mamayev Kurgan, volunteers unfolded Stalingrad and St. George ribbons 80 meters long — in honor of the 83rd anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on 2nd February 1943.
#Stalingrad #BattleofStalingrad #Victory #Liberation #USSR
On Mamayev Kurgan, volunteers unfolded Stalingrad and St. George ribbons 80 meters long — in honor of the 83rd anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad on 2nd February 1943.
#Stalingrad #BattleofStalingrad #Victory #Liberation #USSR
On 2nd February 1990, South African President F W De Klerk gave a momentous speech opening the apartheid Parliament, in which he announced, inter alia, the unbanning (legalisation)
#FWDeKlerk #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Mandela #NelsonMandela #ANC #SACP #Democratic #Multiracial #Elections
#FWDeKlerk #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Mandela #NelsonMandela #ANC #SACP #Democratic #Multiracial #Elections
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
On 2nd February 1990, South African President F W De Klerk gave a momentous speech opening the apartheid Parliament, in which he announced, inter alia, the unbanning (legalisation)
#FWDeKlerk #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Mandela #NelsonMandela #ANC #SACP #Democratic #Multiracial #Elections
#FWDeKlerk #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Mandela #NelsonMandela #ANC #SACP #Democratic #Multiracial #Elections
The African Communist, journal of the South African Communist Party, and Zimbabwe News, paper of ZANU PF Party, noting the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years imprisonment, on 11 February 1990.
#Mandela #NelsonMandela #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #DeKlerk #Unbanning
#Mandela #NelsonMandela #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #DeKlerk #Unbanning
February 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The African Communist, journal of the South African Communist Party, and Zimbabwe News, paper of ZANU PF Party, noting the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years imprisonment, on 11 February 1990.
#Mandela #NelsonMandela #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #DeKlerk #Unbanning
#Mandela #NelsonMandela #SouthAfrica #Zimbabwe #DeKlerk #Unbanning
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Konstantin Chernenko, meeting with the prime minister of India, Mrs Indira Gandhi, Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, February 1984.
#USSR #SovietUnion #India #MrsGandhi #Chernenko #TASS #Moscow #Kremlin
#USSR #SovietUnion #India #MrsGandhi #Chernenko #TASS #Moscow #Kremlin
February 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Konstantin Chernenko, meeting with the prime minister of India, Mrs Indira Gandhi, Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, February 1984.
#USSR #SovietUnion #India #MrsGandhi #Chernenko #TASS #Moscow #Kremlin
#USSR #SovietUnion #India #MrsGandhi #Chernenko #TASS #Moscow #Kremlin
"Long live the great, unconquerable flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin! Long live Leninism! Workers of all countries, unite! The USSR is driving forward the brigade of the world proletariat!", Sergey Yakovlevich Senkin, USSR, 1939.
#SovietPoster #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism
#SovietPoster #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism
February 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"Long live the great, unconquerable flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin! Long live Leninism! Workers of all countries, unite! The USSR is driving forward the brigade of the world proletariat!", Sergey Yakovlevich Senkin, USSR, 1939.
#SovietPoster #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism
#SovietPoster #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism
#Stalingrad is more than a word.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
#Stalingrad is more than a word.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
The city that never surrendered.
The city that broke the spine of Hitler’s war machine.
The city that turned the tides of the #GreatPatrioticWar & #WWII.
⚔️ From February 2, 1943, the road ran only one way – back to Berlin.
«Солнце и снег». Троицкая башня с Александровского сада, Кремлёвская стена, Москва. 🇷🇺
"Sun and snow". The Troitskaya Tower (Trinity Tower) from the Alexander Garden, Kremlin Wall, Moscow. 🇷🇺
#Moscow #Russian #Kremlin #KremlinWall #TrinityTower #Russia #Sun #Snow
"Sun and snow". The Troitskaya Tower (Trinity Tower) from the Alexander Garden, Kremlin Wall, Moscow. 🇷🇺
#Moscow #Russian #Kremlin #KremlinWall #TrinityTower #Russia #Sun #Snow
February 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM
«Солнце и снег». Троицкая башня с Александровского сада, Кремлёвская стена, Москва. 🇷🇺
"Sun and snow". The Troitskaya Tower (Trinity Tower) from the Alexander Garden, Kremlin Wall, Moscow. 🇷🇺
#Moscow #Russian #Kremlin #KremlinWall #TrinityTower #Russia #Sun #Snow
"Sun and snow". The Troitskaya Tower (Trinity Tower) from the Alexander Garden, Kremlin Wall, Moscow. 🇷🇺
#Moscow #Russian #Kremlin #KremlinWall #TrinityTower #Russia #Sun #Snow