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
Women's detachment of the Red Army which fought against General Denikin's army. Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1919.
#RedArmy #CivilWar #RussianCivilWar #Denikin #SovietRussia #Ukraine #Kharkov
#RedArmy #CivilWar #RussianCivilWar #Denikin #SovietRussia #Ukraine #Kharkov
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Women's detachment of the Red Army which fought against General Denikin's army. Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov, 1919.
#RedArmy #CivilWar #RussianCivilWar #Denikin #SovietRussia #Ukraine #Kharkov
#RedArmy #CivilWar #RussianCivilWar #Denikin #SovietRussia #Ukraine #Kharkov
"For Korea - for peace! Let's help the heroic Korean people fighting for their freedom" - a poster of the Hungarian People's Republic during the Korean War.
#Korea #War #Freedom #Victory #Hungary #Hungarian #Republic #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism #Peace
#Korea #War #Freedom #Victory #Hungary #Hungarian #Republic #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism #Peace
February 10, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"For Korea - for peace! Let's help the heroic Korean people fighting for their freedom" - a poster of the Hungarian People's Republic during the Korean War.
#Korea #War #Freedom #Victory #Hungary #Hungarian #Republic #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism #Peace
#Korea #War #Freedom #Victory #Hungary #Hungarian #Republic #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism #Peace
Military parade in honour of the 40th anniversary of victory over fascism, Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1985.
#Victory #Liberation #Belgrade #Yugoslavia
#Victory #Liberation #Belgrade #Yugoslavia
February 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Military parade in honour of the 40th anniversary of victory over fascism, Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1985.
#Victory #Liberation #Belgrade #Yugoslavia
#Victory #Liberation #Belgrade #Yugoslavia
Operator Nina Medvedeva at the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant, Mariupol, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1973.
© Vladimir Perventsev/RIA Novosti
#Azovstal #Metalurgical #Iron #Steel #Mariupul #Ukraine #Ukrainian #USSR #SovietUnion
© Vladimir Perventsev/RIA Novosti
#Azovstal #Metalurgical #Iron #Steel #Mariupul #Ukraine #Ukrainian #USSR #SovietUnion
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Operator Nina Medvedeva at the Azovstal Metallurgical Plant, Mariupol, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1973.
© Vladimir Perventsev/RIA Novosti
#Azovstal #Metalurgical #Iron #Steel #Mariupul #Ukraine #Ukrainian #USSR #SovietUnion
© Vladimir Perventsev/RIA Novosti
#Azovstal #Metalurgical #Iron #Steel #Mariupul #Ukraine #Ukrainian #USSR #SovietUnion
Soviet soldier reading 'Pravda' newspaper in wartime Moscow, in front of Manezhnaya Square. 10 November 1941.
Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
#Pravda #Truth #Moscow #RedSquare #USSR #SovietUnion
Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
#Pravda #Truth #Moscow #RedSquare #USSR #SovietUnion
February 10, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Soviet soldier reading 'Pravda' newspaper in wartime Moscow, in front of Manezhnaya Square. 10 November 1941.
Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
#Pravda #Truth #Moscow #RedSquare #USSR #SovietUnion
Pravda was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
#Pravda #Truth #Moscow #RedSquare #USSR #SovietUnion
USSR Ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky addresses British workers engaged in manufacturing tanks for the Soviet Union. Birmingham, 1943.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Maisky #Ambassador #Factory #Birmingham #Tanks #War #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Britain #Alliance
#USSR #SovietUnion #Maisky #Ambassador #Factory #Birmingham #Tanks #War #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Britain #Alliance
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
USSR Ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky addresses British workers engaged in manufacturing tanks for the Soviet Union. Birmingham, 1943.
#USSR #SovietUnion #Maisky #Ambassador #Factory #Birmingham #Tanks #War #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Britain #Alliance
#USSR #SovietUnion #Maisky #Ambassador #Factory #Birmingham #Tanks #War #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Britain #Alliance
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov (Юрий Андропов) passed away 9th February 1984.
He succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982.
Andropov had previously been a long standing chairman of the Committee for State Security (the KGB) between 1967 and 1982.
#Andropov #YuriAndropov #USSR #SovietUnion #Brezhnev
He succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982.
Andropov had previously been a long standing chairman of the Committee for State Security (the KGB) between 1967 and 1982.
#Andropov #YuriAndropov #USSR #SovietUnion #Brezhnev
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov (Юрий Андропов) passed away 9th February 1984.
He succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982.
Andropov had previously been a long standing chairman of the Committee for State Security (the KGB) between 1967 and 1982.
#Andropov #YuriAndropov #USSR #SovietUnion #Brezhnev
He succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982.
Andropov had previously been a long standing chairman of the Committee for State Security (the KGB) between 1967 and 1982.
#Andropov #YuriAndropov #USSR #SovietUnion #Brezhnev
NKVD officers firing Nagant revolvers. 1930s
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #Nagant #Revolver #USSR #SovietUnion
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #Nagant #Revolver #USSR #SovietUnion
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
NKVD officers firing Nagant revolvers. 1930s
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #Nagant #Revolver #USSR #SovietUnion
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #Nagant #Revolver #USSR #SovietUnion
View over East Berlin from the West, 1980s. Brandenburg Gate in the foreground. Main avenue Unter den Linden (Under the Lime Trees) extending behind the gate into the distance. The East Berlin TV Tower (Berliner Fernsehturm) to the left background.
#Berlin #EastBerlin #BrandenburgGate #Germany
#Berlin #EastBerlin #BrandenburgGate #Germany
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
View over East Berlin from the West, 1980s. Brandenburg Gate in the foreground. Main avenue Unter den Linden (Under the Lime Trees) extending behind the gate into the distance. The East Berlin TV Tower (Berliner Fernsehturm) to the left background.
#Berlin #EastBerlin #BrandenburgGate #Germany
#Berlin #EastBerlin #BrandenburgGate #Germany
Portrait of a Nenets Girl. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Aleksandr Anatolievich Shchemlyaev
#USSR #SovietUnion #Nenets #Yamalo
#USSR #SovietUnion #Nenets #Yamalo
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Portrait of a Nenets Girl. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Aleksandr Anatolievich Shchemlyaev
#USSR #SovietUnion #Nenets #Yamalo
#USSR #SovietUnion #Nenets #Yamalo
"Thank you son!" Smolensk Region. USSR. 1943. Mark Redkin
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
"Thank you son!" Smolensk Region. USSR. 1943. Mark Redkin
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Reposted by Andrew Northall
We bow low to you, heroes of Victory! - Soviet Poster (1965)
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We bow low to you, heroes of Victory! - Soviet Poster (1965)
Heads of the Novosibirsk Interregional School of the NKVD of the USSR. 1930s
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #USSR #SovietUnion #Security #Police #Novosibirsk
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #USSR #SovietUnion #Security #Police #Novosibirsk
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Heads of the Novosibirsk Interregional School of the NKVD of the USSR. 1930s
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #USSR #SovietUnion #Security #Police #Novosibirsk
NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
#NKVD #USSR #SovietUnion #Security #Police #Novosibirsk
A person was born. Tomsk University. Siberia. USSR. 1956. Semyon Fridlyand
#Tomsk #University #Siberia #USSR #SovietUnion #NewLife #Birth #Students
#Tomsk #University #Siberia #USSR #SovietUnion #NewLife #Birth #Students
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
A person was born. Tomsk University. Siberia. USSR. 1956. Semyon Fridlyand
#Tomsk #University #Siberia #USSR #SovietUnion #NewLife #Birth #Students
#Tomsk #University #Siberia #USSR #SovietUnion #NewLife #Birth #Students
A priest gives an officer of the Batista regime who was sentenced to death his last rites before execution. Cuba. Circa 1958. 🇨🇺
#Cuba #Cuban #Revolution #Batista #LastRites #Execution
#Cuba #Cuban #Revolution #Batista #LastRites #Execution
February 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
A priest gives an officer of the Batista regime who was sentenced to death his last rites before execution. Cuba. Circa 1958. 🇨🇺
#Cuba #Cuban #Revolution #Batista #LastRites #Execution
#Cuba #Cuban #Revolution #Batista #LastRites #Execution
Reposted by Andrew Northall
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/medi...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/medi...
Mediterranean dockworkers mobilise across 21 ports in unprecedented anti-war strike
DOCKWORKERS in 21 ports throughout the Mediterranean will mobilise for an international demonstration on February 6 to protest against rearmament and in solidarity with Palestine.The joint day of acti...
morningstaronline.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/medi...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/medi...
Reposted by Andrew Northall
Storming the Heavens: introducing China’s peasant revolution - In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stor...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stor...
Storming the Heavens: introducing China’s peasant revolution
REVOLIUTIONS, said Marx, project themselves towards the future: seeing China’s rise today we might certainly consider how its revolutionary years not only changed the country but also changed the worl...
morningstaronline.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Storming the Heavens: introducing China’s peasant revolution - In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stor...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stor...
Soviet troops near Kabul a few weeks before their official departure from Afghanistan. 28 April 1988. The withdrawal started 15 May 1988.
#Kabul #Afghanistan #Afghan #USSR #SovietUnion #Intervention #Military
#Kabul #Afghanistan #Afghan #USSR #SovietUnion #Intervention #Military
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Soviet troops near Kabul a few weeks before their official departure from Afghanistan. 28 April 1988. The withdrawal started 15 May 1988.
#Kabul #Afghanistan #Afghan #USSR #SovietUnion #Intervention #Military
#Kabul #Afghanistan #Afghan #USSR #SovietUnion #Intervention #Military
Soviet Communist leader Sergei Kirov speaking on the tribune of the 17th Congress All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), held 26 January to 10 February 1934 Painting Pyotr Belousov.
#CPSU #Kirov #Congress #CommunistParty #Victors #Bolsheviks #USSR #SovietUnion #Painting #Artist #Pianter #Art
#CPSU #Kirov #Congress #CommunistParty #Victors #Bolsheviks #USSR #SovietUnion #Painting #Artist #Pianter #Art
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Soviet Communist leader Sergei Kirov speaking on the tribune of the 17th Congress All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), held 26 January to 10 February 1934 Painting Pyotr Belousov.
#CPSU #Kirov #Congress #CommunistParty #Victors #Bolsheviks #USSR #SovietUnion #Painting #Artist #Pianter #Art
#CPSU #Kirov #Congress #CommunistParty #Victors #Bolsheviks #USSR #SovietUnion #Painting #Artist #Pianter #Art
The Spasskaya Bashnya (Saviour Tower) in the magical summer evening night, Red Square, Moscow, Russian Federation, 7 May 2011 🇷🇺
#SaviourTower #KremlinWall #Kremlin #Moscow #Russia #RedSquare
#SaviourTower #KremlinWall #Kremlin #Moscow #Russia #RedSquare
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The Spasskaya Bashnya (Saviour Tower) in the magical summer evening night, Red Square, Moscow, Russian Federation, 7 May 2011 🇷🇺
#SaviourTower #KremlinWall #Kremlin #Moscow #Russia #RedSquare
#SaviourTower #KremlinWall #Kremlin #Moscow #Russia #RedSquare