Russia: Scott # 5560-64 (1987)

A complete Soviet MNH set featuring masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum.

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#Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately #Russia #SovietUnion #HermitageMuseum #Art

#TIL The Soviet Union violated Olympic rules by paying athletes full time despite appearing to have regular jobs, enabling them to dominate the Games in the 1970s and 1980s.

#sovietunion #mpi #olympics #olympichistory

#IWasASlaveInRussia #JohnNoble #JohnHNoble #Gulag #SovietUnion #SovietHistory #Vorkuta #VorkutaUprising #ForcedLabor #PoliticalPrisoners #SurvivalStory #PrisonMemoir #Memoir #HistoricalNonfiction #ColdWarHistory #HumanRights #Freedom #Totalitarianism #BookReview #BookDiscussion

"7th October - USSR Constitution Day. I glorify the day on which the Fundamental Law of my Fatherland was established in the name of Man and the People of my Fatherland!", Soviet poster, 1986

#USSR #SovietUnion #Constitution #Socialism #Communism

USSR - GDR. Friendship forever", Soviet poster, 1971

#USSR #SovietUnion #GDR #Brezhnev #Honecker

D-Day on June 1944 was only possible because #Britain defeated #Nazis in Battle of Britain in 1940, then #SovietUnion crushed Nazis best soldiers at #Stalingrad in 1942/43.
#SecondWorldWar

Russia: Scott # 5906-08 (1990)

A complete Soviet MNH set depicting duck species in natural wetland settings.

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#Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately #Russia #SovietUnion #Ducks #Birds #Waterfowl

"Long live the 31st anniversary of the Great October!" Soviet poster designed by the prominent Soviet artist Mikhail Gordon. 1948.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Bolshevik #BolshevikRevolution #October #OctoberRevolution

The ceremonial reopening of the Grand Cascade fountains at the Peterhof Palace (then known as Petrodvorets) on 14 September 1947.

#USSR #Leningrad #SovietUnion #Peterhof #Petrodvorets

#WhereTheJewsArent #Birobidzhan #JewishHistory #RussianHistory #SovietHistory #SovietUnion #JewishAutonomousRegion #JewishCulture #Yiddish #Judaism #Judaica #JewishEncounters #Stalinism #JewishDiaspora #HistoryBooks #Nonfiction #Audiobooks #BookRecommendations

'Long live the Franco-Soviet alliance' — French poster (ca. 1944-5) showing Stalin and Charles de Gaulle. Published by the Comité France-URSS.

#USSR #SovietUnion #France #DeGaulle #Stalin #Alliance

"Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol!" USSR. 1943.

The Komsomol was effectively the youth wing of the Soviet Communist Party, for people aged 14 to 28.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Komsomol #CommunistParty #CPSU

Soviet Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev", established 10 May 1982, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

#Kiev #Ukraine #Ukrainian #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #USSR #SovietUnion

A German tank crew take in their surroundings - Eastern Front 1942 #ww2 #worldwar2 #1940s #easternfront #tank
#panzer #sovietunion #history