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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 56m

Dancing after the congress on the occasion of the proclamation of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast. USSR, Urus-Martan, January 15, 1923

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2h

🟥 Did you know?
The Soviets once tried to make a flying tank! The Antonov A-40 Krylya Tanka (“tank wings”) was designed to glide onto a battlefield after being towed by a plane, supporting airborne forces or partisans. A prototype was built and tested in 1942, but it was ultimately unworkable.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 6h

According to investigations at the time.

USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 7h

Lenin giving a speech to the delegates of the Third World Congress of the Communist International, 1921

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 8h

“Over the sea of taiga”, painting by Viktor Pavlovich Lanovenko, 1980

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 22h

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zagorsky, a dedicated revolutionary and Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was tragically killed on September 25, 1919. He died in a bomb attack at the Moscow Committee building, which was orchestrated by anarchists.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 1d

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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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 1d

"Comrade Stalin with his mother", painting by Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze, 1930

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 1d

"Work Honestly!", Soviet Uzbek Poster, 1930

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. Regiment commander. 1920s

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d

Soviet sculptor Boris Svinin against the background of the Farhad fountain figure. Uzbek SSR, Navoiy. 1970s

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 3d

"9th of May (Victory Day). He whose storms raged through our land met his end, struck by the storm!" - Soviet poster, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1968

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 3d

Tighten the bonds of friendship for the sake of peace and happiness! - Soviet Poster, 1954

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 4d

Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and Stanislav Kosior among a group of soldiers and workers (1927)

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 4d

Diver at Sports Parade, Moscow, 1936
(photo by Georgi Zelma)

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 4d

Ivan Federovich Boiko and his wife Aleksandra Boiko, the Soviet couple that crewed the same tank. They had 5 confirmed tank kills. 1940s

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"Freedom to the peoples of Africa!", soviet postage stamp, 1961

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 5d

"The Payback", Soviet poster, 1968

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Zurab Shalamberidze takes a photo of his wife Vera at the Stalin Museum in Gori, 2015. Photograph: Andrew North

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 6d

Armed soldiers carry a banner reading 'Communism', Nikolskaya street, Moscow, October 1917

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 6d

On this day in 1970 the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet-Russian novelist, sparking considerable controversy at the time.

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Nonconformist youth, USSR, 1987

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Technology for the Youth, issue 1, 1964, illustration by S. Lefterev for the article ‘Morning in the “Astrocity”’, depicting a futuristic scenario of space transportation within a cosmodrome.

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USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 7d

Portrait of V.I. Lenin. Amber panel from 1985

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Playing chess on the ship "Gruziya" (Georgia), 1958. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev

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