USSR

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  ‘Respect each other!’ – Soviet poster (1989)

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  Finnish children killed by Soviet partisans at Seitajärvi in Finnish Lapland, 1942.

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  Spymaster Brigadier Yasub Dogar from Pakistan’s ISI enjoying qahwa (tea) on a mountain top in Gardez, Afghanistan whilst the Soviet ammunition depots are being destroyed in the background. Soviet-Afghan war, early 1980s,

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  A woman in the USSR has equal rights with a man! USSR 1946

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  ‘His Struggle, Your Death’ — Soviet photomontage from the Second World War (ca. 1941) by Aleksandr Zhitomirsky.

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  ‘Thank God Lufthansa is flying!’ (cartoon depicting German food assistance to the Soviet Union) // Soviet Union // 1991

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  The evolution of colonialism // Soviet Union // 1964

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  Right to keep and bear arms in America // Soviet Union // 1972

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  What you could buy your children for the price of a litre of vodka – Soviet poster (1929)

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  Billboard of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: 135 years since birth / Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin / ‘He received Russia with a plough, and left with the atom bomb’ W. Churchill. 2015.

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  ‘Let’s protect children from the priest’s claws!’ (USSR, 1962)

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  In 1939, during the Winter War, Finnish soldiers positioned the frozen body of a Soviet soldier as part of psychological warfare.

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  1978 Soviet caricature ‘New Shopper’ depicting the leader of Red China Deng Xiaoping shopping for weapons from NATO babushkas

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  In 1946, soviet children gifted a carved great seal replica to the us ambassador, unknowingly hiding a listening device called ‘the thing.’ It was found in 1952 during a counter-surveillance sweep.

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  ‘Long live victory!’, soviet kazakh poster, 1945

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  “Drug addiction”, soviet poster, 1987

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  “Soviet Threat”, soviet poster, 1980

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  Mummified skull of one of the Polish officers murdered by the soviets. Damage to the skull could be inflicted by the impact of a pistol bullet. Katyn, Poland, 1943.

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  Argentine military on a Soviet BELAZ dump truck captured from the British during the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands

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  ‘Come on, shtop pushin!’ — American postcard from the Second World War (1943) showing Stalin pushing Hitler down the toilet.

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