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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 3h

Air defense platoon commander of the 34th separate guards mortar division of the Western Front, Lieutenant Nury Karievich Kuliev, against the backdrop of the wreckage of a German heavy fighter Messerschmitt Bf 110, shot down near Moscow. December 1941. Photo by Ivan Shagin

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 4h

It can be called one of the symbols of the military valour of our country. The sculpture is dedicated to the great victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 4h

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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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 22h

Ethereal silent film goddess Lillian Gish was born 14 October 1893 in Springfield, Ohio.

The American Film Institute has called her “the First Lady of American Cinema.” She lived to be 99.

#LillianGish #FilmActress #Film #Actress #SilentFilms

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1889 Max Hoelz, a German communist known as the "Red Robin Hood", was born. He frequently robbed banks and requisitioned food and fuel for the unemployed and poor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8615...

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 22h

Khrushchev was replaced as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev and as Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (prime minister) by Alexei Kosygin.

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 22h

On the 14 October 1964, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his State and Party offices by an extended meeting of the Communist Party Presidium (Politburo).

#Khrushchev #Ouster #CPSU #Soviet #CommunistParty #USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #Brezhnev #Kosygin

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

"We must fight for peace!" Soviet poster, 1980s

#SovietPoster #Soviet #Poster #Peace #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

The site of the former Führerbunker in East Berlin.

#Führerbunker #Führer #Bunker #EastBerlin #East #Berlin #GDR #DDR

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

The monument Aurora outside the Aurora cinema in the city of Krasnador, Russia.

In Soviet times, the pedestal had the words "Power to the Soviets, peace to the peoples", sadly sealed up in the 1990s.

#Aurora #Cinema #Krasnador #Russia #USSR #SovietUnion #Power #Soviets

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Letter in the Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social

#Covid #Covid19 #Schools #Education #Children #NEU #Snowflakes

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Soviet circus performer Tatiana Koch. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev, 1970.

#Soviet #Circus #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

"Soviet Photo" magazine, 1964.

#SovietPhoto #Soviet #Photo #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

The first test run in the Moscow metro. Unknown author, 14 October 1934. State Museum of the Political History of Russia.

The slogan reads something like "Only the proletarian state could build such a metro in such a short time."

#MoscowMetro #Moscow #Metro #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Photo as a keepsake. Katya and Stalin. Date of shooting 13 October 1954. Tyumen Region, Tobolsk. USSR.

The archive of the Levchenko-Lutovinin family.

#Katya #Stalin #Tobolsk #Tyumen #USSR #SovietUnio

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d

A group of commanders of the 1st Cavalry Army. Seated (from left to right): Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Efim Shchadenko. Soviet Russia, 1919

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Members of the US table tennis team visiting the Peoples Republic of China in 1971. 🇺🇸 🇨🇳

#US #USA #TableTennis #TableTennisTeam #China #PRC #PeoplesRepublicofChina #Mao #ChairmanMao

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Commissioned by East German prime minister Otto Grotewohl in the 1950s to show the bright future under socialism for citizens of the German Democratic Republic.

The building is now the Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

'Socialist realism' mural on the side of the former Luftwaffe HQ building, East Berlin. 19 August 2025

#EastBerlin #Berlin #SocialistRealism #Luftwaffe #HQ #GDR #DDR #German #Democratic #Republic #Socialism

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1980s

#Belgrade #Socialist #Federal #Republic #Yugoslavia #Socialism #Tito

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

May Day Rally on Marx-Engels Square in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1 May 1955.

#MayDay #Marx #Engels #Square #EastBerlin #GDR #DDR #German #Democratic #Republic #May

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

The Bundesrat building, East Berlin, 20 August 2025.

Often regarded as the upper house of the legislature of the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Bundesrat #Berlin #EastBerlin #East #Legislature #FRG #BRD #Germany

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

On July 22, 1955, the Palace of Culture and Science was opened in Warsaw, a 42-story skyscraper - a gift to the Polish capital from the Soviet Union.

#Warsaw #Polish #Poland #Gift #Palace #Culture #Science #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

@mstaronline.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #MorningStar #GreenParty #YourParty #ZarahSultana

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 2d

In Gorky Park. Moscow, 1930s.

The sign says "Lying or sitting on the grass is prohibited. Violation of the rules will result in a fine of three roubles."

#Gorky #GorkyPark #Moscow #Gorki #GreenSpaces #USSR #SovietUnion #WorkersState

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