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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · Oct 15
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
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The people of Cuba will prevail!!

#CommunistParty #Mexico #Cuba #Socialist #Socialism #Defence #Defense #Defiance #Resist #Resistance #Armed #Militia #Militias
February 6, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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The tanker 'Grodno' under construction at the Kherson Shipyard in 1956. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. USSR. Semyon Fridlyand

#Kherson #Shipyard #ShipBuilding #Ukraine #Ukrainian #USSR #SovietUnion
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Arrest of the emperor and his family. Nicholas II and his daughter Tatiana at the bridge in Alexander Park. Petrograd Province, Tsarskoye Selo District, Tsarskoye Selo.

#Bolshevik #Bolsheviks #SovietRussia #Tsar #Romanovs #Tatiana #Arrest #Petrograd #Russia #Revolution #RoyalFamily
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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A MiG-21SMT of the 899th Fighter Bomber Air Regiment deployed in the Baltic Military District, USSR, c 1988.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Baltic #Defense #Defence #Mig21
February 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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A column of cyclists at the parade in honour of the All-Union Day of Physical Culture, passing by the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square. Moscow. 1937. Archive of the Dynamo Society.

#RedSquare #Moscow #Parade #Lenin #USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Dynamo #Cyclists
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Evening Nizhny Novgorod ❤ 🇷🇺

#NizhnyNovgorod #Russia #RussianFederation #Evening
February 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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"I am a simple Soviet man. I would like to dedicate this first space flight to the people of communism, to the society that our Soviet people are already joining, and which, I am sure, all people on Earth will join." Yuri Gagarin

#Gagarin #YuriGagarin #Cosmonaut #Space #USSR #SovietUnion #Communism
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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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
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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
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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
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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"Increase the harvest year after year!" USSR

#SovietPoster #USSR #SovietUnion #Harvest #Agriculture
February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Decorated carpet or rug presented to Stalin as a gift by Soviet Baku in 1940.

Now in the Iosif Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia

#Stalin #Soviet #Baku #Gori #Georgia #Museum #Rug #Carpet
February 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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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
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Supporters and members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly displaying #PFLP insignia in Occupied #Palestine. 🇵🇸

#PFLP #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree
February 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Moscow in the 1950s by Semyon Fridlyand.

#Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion #Avenue
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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The 20th Congress of the Komsomol in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow, USSR. Image taken 1st February 1987.

The Komsomol was the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Congress #Komsomol #Kremlin #Moscow
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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MiG-29UB Azerbaijan Air Force with F-16C Turkish Air Force. 🇦🇿 🇹🇷

#Azerbaijan #Turkey #Turkish #FighterAircraft #MIG29 #F16 #GroundAttack
February 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Hotel "Peking", Garden Ring, Moscow, Russian Federation 🇷🇺 🇨🇳

#HotelPeking #Hotel #Peking #Russia #Moscow #GardenRing
February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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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
February 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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The Su-27M/Su-35 was designed as an advanced air superiority and multirole fighter, intended to compete with Western fourth-generation fighter.

#SU27 #SU35 #Russia #Russian #AirForces #VKS #Fighter
February 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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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
February 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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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
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Romanian communist magazine cover with the title "Viața Militară" (Military Life) from 1988.

#Romania #Romanian #Military #Socialist #Socialism #Communist #Communism
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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"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
February 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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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
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM