USSR

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  Moloch of War. Photo of a Soviet war veteran near the Eternal Flame on the anniversary of Victory Day, 1966.

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  A couple with their bicycle and a dog – in Crimea, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, c. 1984. The photo was taken by photographer Vitaly Karpov.

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  Nikita Khrushchev surrounded by people voting for his resignation, USSR, October 14, 1964.

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  Legendary Soviet rockstar Viktor Tsoi of Kino working his day job as a stoker in a Leningrad boiler room, required by law to avoid being prosecuted for ‘parasitism’ (1986)

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  Farm workers having lunch near combine harvesters – during harvest season in the Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, c. 1973.

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  ‘Stalin Waiting Up All Night for the Russian Election Results’ Irish satire about elections in the Soviet Union, 1950

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  Queuing for alcohol in the late Soviet Union, 1991.

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  ‘In 1917, the Winter Palace – In 1959, the moon’ — Soviet illustration (1959) celebrating Soviet progress

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  Swiss cartoon (1961) showing leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement playing the USSR and the US off against each other.

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  ‘Do not be afraid of water, wash yourself daily’, USSR, 1929

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  A chilling photo captures the explosion of the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever produced, detonated by the Soviet Union at the Novaya Zemlya test site on October 30, 1961.

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  Joseph Stalin wearing a traditional Mongolian deel, 1936.

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  Sufferer of acute radiation sickness, photo taken at a specialized clinic in the Soviet Union after the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.

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  ‘Kombat’ is a heroic photograph of the Soviet political commissar of the 220th Infantry Regiment urging his soldiers to attack on the Eastern Front in Soviet Ukraine, July 12, 1942. The man in the photograph is said to have died minutes after it was taken.

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  School photo of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin at the age of 10, taken in the late 1880s.

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  “I demand to leave this socialist paradise for capitalist hell,” Alexander Bolonkin, 1978, USSR

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  Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, 1937

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  ‘Down with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’. Moscow. White House, 1991.

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  Finnish soldiers finding the skin of an skinned Soviet soldier.Seesjärvi. 1942 480X312

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  French Renault FT-17 light tank which was captured by the Soviets during the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920, afterwards donated by the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Afghanistan – photo shows U.S. soldiers with the tank, c. 2005.

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