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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 Red Square during preparations for the celebrations of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Moscow, USSR, 1947. Robert Capa

#October #Socialist #Revolution #RedSquare #GUM #Moscow #Lenin #Stalin #USSR #SovietUnion #Capa #RobertCapa
December 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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View from the top of the Baku Funicular. Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, c 1980

#Baku #Funicular #Azerbaijan #USSR #SovietUnion #Socialism #Communism #CaspianSea
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Fashion store «Ruslan and Lyudmila», Moscow, USSR, 1960s. Named after a Russian fairy/magic tale.

#Ruslan #Lyudmila #Fashion #Store #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The Moscow Kremlin ready for New Year 🎄 ✨ 🇷🇺

#NewYear #Moscow #Kremlin #Russia #NewYear2026
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Parade on Red Square in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. 7 November 1967

From the archive of the magazine "Ogonyok".

#Ogonyok #October #Socialist #Revolution #RedSquare #November #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Soviet Mig-21s (supersonic jet fighters and interceptors) lined up at an airfield.

Mikhail Kukhtariov/Sputnik

#SovietAirForces #Mig21 #Fighters #Interceptors #USSR #SovietUnion #Sputnik
December 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The Baksovyet building (Baku city council), Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, 1954. Max Alpert

#Baku #Azerbaijan #Alpert #MaxAlpert #Soviet #USSR #SovietUnion
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Soviet leader Yuri Andropov giving a speech at a meeting to mark the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, in the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin, 22 April 1982.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Andropov #KGB #Palace #Congresses #Kremlin #Moscow #Lenin
December 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Parade-prologue of the performance dedicated to the Twenty Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow, USSR, October 1961

#USSR #SovietUnion #CommunistParty #CPSU #Congress #Parade
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The lights of Donbass. Donetsk region. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. Evgeny Haldey, 1940.

#Donbass #Donetsk #Ukrainian #Ukraine #USSR #SovietUnion
December 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Participants of the meeting of the heads of engineers. Sinarskaya corrective labour colony. Chelyabinsk Region. USSR. 11 July 1934.

State Historical Museum of the South Urals

#LabourColony #Chelyabinsk #NKVD #USSR #SovietUnion #Urals #Engineers
December 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Commander Sozar Hacî talking to ANF

To read the whole interview (until now only in Kurdish and Arabic)
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December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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29 December 1964: stamps issued in the GDR to mark the 'International Year of the Quiet Sun', a research project designed to measure the impact of the solar cycle on the earth during a sunspot minimum (1/3)
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Moscow Illuminations. The 800th anniversary of the founding of Moscow. USSR. 6 September 1947. Evgeny Petrovich Umnov

#Moscow #Anniversary #USSR #SovietUnion #Illuminations
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#Ukraine #Ukrainian #Zelensky #SunTzu
December 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Female police officer on 25th October Avenue (Nevsky Avenue). Blockaded Leningrad. 1941

#Police #Leningrad #War #WW2 #USSR #SovietUnion
December 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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1974 Soviet poster encouraging young people to support the Virgin Lands Campaign by taking agricultural jobs in the new territories. Designed by Claudia Kudryashova.

#USSR #SovietUnion #VirginLands #Khrushchev #Agriculture #Food #Kazakhstan #Siberia
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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May Day demonstration, Moscow, USSR, 1964. Thomas Taylor Hammond.

#MayDay #May #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion
December 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"Trade unions - to fight for a counter-plan of 10 million tons of cast iron!", USSR, 1932

Soviet poster created by Gustav Klutsis to encourage workers to exceed the official production goals of the Second Five-Year Plan.

#FiveYearPlan #USSR #SovietUnion #CastIron #Iron #Industry #Socialism
December 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Portrait of a delegate to the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. USSR. 1976

#Portrait #Delegate #Congress #CPSU #CommunistParty #USSR #SovietUnion
December 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Demonstration against the death sentence of Friedrich Adler in Teatralnaya Square, Moscow. 14 May 1917.

#TheatreSquare #Bolshoi #BolshoiTheatre #Russia #Adler #Demonstration #Moscow
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Arrest and escort of a disguised policeman at the Technological Institute on Zabalkansky Avenue (now called Moskovsky Avenue). Petrograd, during the February Revolution, 1917.

Date of shooting: February 23, 1917 - March 12, 1917

#February #FrebruaryRevolution #Russia #Petrograd #Militia #Police
December 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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May Day demonstration on Red Square. Moscow. USSR. (archive)

© Valery Khristoforov/Fotokhronika TASS

#MayDay #RedSquare #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion #TASS
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Construction of the house of Karl Liebknecht - P. Vinogradov. Arkhangelsk, USSR. 1958. Author Semyon Friedland

#Construction #Liebknecht #Arkhangelsk #USSR #SovietUnion
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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May Day procession through Arkhangelsk, USSR.

#MayDay #Arkhangelsk #March #Demonstration #Procession #USSR #SovietUnion
December 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM