USSR

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  «The feat of the Chernobyl firefighters», USSR, 1987

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  On this day in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded. This is the only known photo taken of reactor number 4 on the day of the explosion.

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  USSR officials attempting in vain to resuscitate the dead crew of Soyuz 11 after it’s reentry. All three crew members were posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medals and given state funerals, June 3rd, 1971

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  column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front – January 1943

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  1972 antisemitic USSR poster depicting Jews as capitalists

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  German and Soviet pavilions facing directly opposite each other at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair

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  1983 Soviet Union stamp. “The righteous act of the Arabs of Palestine will prevail” is the translation.

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  Soviet MGB officers negotiate with UPA militants (Ukrainian separatists) blocked in an underground bunker, 1946 (800х451)

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  Finnish and Soviet border guards having coffee together.early 80s. {960×720}

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  Polite words, but intentions are still the same // Soviet Union //””1961.

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  “No to racism” Soviet Union 1972

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  “Be careful with fire in a forest” USSR 1980’s

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  (Date unknown, ww2 era) Stalin as a lion tamer whipping the nazi leadership

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  Israeli Plan | USSR | 1980s

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  The Four Branches of the U.S. Military” // the Soviet Union // in the 1960s

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  ‘Everyone has only one earth’ Soviet poster, unknown date

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  German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.

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  “Symphony of the 6th Blast Furnace” – Soviet Union, 1979 (by E. Sedukhin)

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  The Nuremberg trials: the Nazis’ last line of defense // Soviet Union // 1945

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  “Long live the great Soviet friendship!” / Poster dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of the Reunification of the Ukraine and Russia / USSR, 1954

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