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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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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
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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NKVD officers firing Nagant revolvers. 1930s

NKVD = Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs

#NKVD #Nagant #Revolver #USSR #SovietUnion
February 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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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
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Portrait of a Nenets Girl. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Aleksandr Anatolievich Shchemlyaev

#USSR #SovietUnion #Nenets #Yamalo
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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"Thank you son!" Smolensk Region. USSR. 1943. Mark Redkin

#SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Liberators #Liberation #Victory #USSR #SovietUnion #Smolensk
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Classic vehicles at the VDNKh, Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺 June 2013

#VDNKh #Moscow #Russia #ClassicVehicles
February 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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We bow low to you, heroes of Victory! - Soviet Poster (1965)
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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A person was born. Tomsk University. Siberia. USSR. 1956. Semyon Fridlyand

#Tomsk #University #Siberia #USSR #SovietUnion #NewLife #Birth #Students
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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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
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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...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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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
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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...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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After his release from imprisonment for 27 years by the apartheid South African regime, African nationalist liberation leader Nelson Mandela chose Cuba as one of the first countries to visit. 🇨🇺 🤝 🇿🇦

#Mandela #Cuba #SouthAfrica #Solidarity #AntiApartheid #CuitoCanavale #NelsonMandela #ANC #SACP
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Communist parties are part of the Tamilnadu State Government, India.

Chief Minister M. K. Stalin unveiled a full length statue of Karl Marx in the government museum complex, Chennai.

#CommunistParties #India #Chennai #Stalin #KarlMarx #Marx #CPIM #CPI
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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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