Mid to late 1980s. Moscow. USSR.
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@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialMid to late 1980s. Moscow. USSR.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialSoviet army medic in Afghanistan during the Soviet internationalist deployment there. 1979-89.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.social"Led by Stalin, under the leadership of the glorious Bolshevik commanders..."
"Forward – to the complete destruction of the enemy!"
1942 Soviet poster
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialДети Сталинграда / Children of Stalingrad. 1942
Original image by the prominent Soviet military photojournalist Yakov Ryumki
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialSoviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and and Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito dance with locals in Cetinje, Montenegro, Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. 1963.
#Khrushchev #Tito #Yugoslavia #Montenegro #USSR #SovietUnion
@buckivotesblue.bsky.socialNothing says "defeating the Marxist threat" quite like releasing campaign ads that look exactly like 1970s Soviet propaganda.
#Communism
#SovietUnion
#TrumpFinalBattleAds
#Blues

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@theworldatwar.bsky.socialGerman soldiers get a break somewhere on the Eastern Front - March 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #easternfront #sovietunion #ussr #history #1940s
@myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.socialAlisa Poret, 1937. From: “The Cat’s House” (The fire is the result of a porridge cooking mishap.)
@jonah333.bsky.social#SovietUnion disappeared in 1991, but its #antizionist ideas & its vocabulary did not.
Decade after “Zionism is racism” resolution was repealed, Durban conference reintroduced Soviet #lie about Zionism as racism & Israel as apartheid state to new generation.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialNikolai Ryzhkov was born 28 September 1920. He was elected chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (head of the Soviet Government) in September 1985, a post he held until January 1991.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbachev and Mikhail Suslov at Stavropol's 200th anniversary celebrations, USSR, 1978
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialAmateur athletes at the Soviet sports tournament - the Spartakiad. Moscow. USSR. 1951.
@gentlem.bsky.socialThe Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bizarre-... #ColdWar #History #SovietUnion #VideoGames via @mitpress.bsky.social
@eurocomicsnews.bsky.social📚 URSS 89
Spring 1989: nineteen-year-old Youssef Daoudi arrives in Moscow to study in the fading Soviet Union. Thirty-five years on, he recalls his time as a foreign student with wit and…
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