Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov 1948.
Suslov was appointed Senior Secretary to the Central Committee for Ideology, following the death of Andrei Zhdanov in August 1948, a position he held until his own death in 1982.
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@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialMikhail Andreyevich Suslov 1948.
Suslov was appointed Senior Secretary to the Central Committee for Ideology, following the death of Andrei Zhdanov in August 1948, a position he held until his own death in 1982.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.socialPresident Edvard Beneš addressing the Czechoslovak public during a government rally at Prague's Old Town Square on 16 May 1945.
#EdvardBeneš #Prague #Czechoslovakia #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Victory #Liberation
@andrewnorthall.bsky.social"To the Winner in the All-Union Socialist Competition".
"Working people of the Soviet Union! Expand on a broader scale the socialist competition for the early fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan!"
Soviet poster issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. 1949.
@andrewnorthall.bsky.social"For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" medal.
#USSR #SovietUnion #War #WW2 #Victory #Liberation #Germany #Stalin
@koolmoon.bsky.socialHow is #Trump gating away with it. #American can not turn into a #communist country #USSR.
@nickburka.bsky.socialToday I visited the largest camp in the #gulag system of the Stalinist #USSR, Karlag in #Kazakhstan.
It was a very sober visit. Over a million people were held here over its 30 year existence and they were forced to do hard labor in the fields and mines of #Karaganda. Many of them died there.
@lorion70.bsky.social#PUTIN LIES ABOUT everything that happened after the dissolution of the #USSR from #TimofiyMylovanov
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@simongerman600.bsky.socialWeird #geography and #history trivia: #Kazakhstan was the last Soviet Republic to leave the #USSR (4 Days After #Russia). This means that for 4 days this was what the Soviet Union looked like. Source: buff.ly/2JAvKq8
@cronologia.bsky.socialWithin twenty-four hours, the Soviet Union becomes the first foreign power to recognize the new government. Britain follows in 1950, while Washington keeps its ties with Taiwan for decades. #ColdWarDiplomacy #USSR #Recognition
@landsentinel.bsky.socialBrusilova Glacier, Ussr #Landmark #SatelliteImagery #Geography #BrusilovaGlacier #Ussr #GlacierRetreat #ClimateChange #IceLoss #GlobalWarming #Cryosphere #EarthFromSpace
@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
@theworldatwar.bsky.socialGerman soldiers get a break somewhere on the Eastern Front - March 1945 #ww2 #worldwar2 #easternfront #sovietunion #ussr #history #1940s
@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.
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