USSR

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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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  Field marshal Bernard Montgomery walking with decorated Soviet Marshals in front of the Brandenburg Gate, shortly after the Battle of Berlin. (1945)

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  A Woman Hands out Cigarettes to German POWs Going into the Soviet Captivity, Berlin, May 1945

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  American Trotskyist cartoon (1938) showing Stalin and Hitler standing on the skulls of their victims.

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  Chlorodont toothpaste. USSR, 1929

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  German Ju-87D Stuka dive bomber flies over the burning ruins of Stalingrad. 1942.

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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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