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"Without the active participation of women in the industrial union and production, the economy of the republic cannot be restored", Soviet Poster, 1920

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Young women serving in the local air defense units, Leningrad, 1944

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Lenin with the peasants - Painting by Vasilij Zakharovich Borodaj (1960s)

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First McDonald's in Moscow. USSR TV, 1990.

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'In 1917, the Winter Palace - In 1959, the moon' — Soviet illustration (1959) celebrating Soviet progress.

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V. I. Lenin - Painting by Vladimir Tsyplakov (1960)

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Vladimir Lenin in Gorki, 1922

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Nikita Khrushchev reads the newspaper "Pravda" during his rest. USSR, 1960. Photo by V. Lebedev

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"Alcohol reduces the accuracy of rifle fire. When you are sober, 7/100 shots are misses. When alcohol is consumed the night before shooting and accompanied by half a glass of vodka on the day: 27/100 shots are misses", USSR, 1930s

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Leaders of the underground anti-fascist movement in Karelia. Yuri Andropov sits in the center. Karelo-Finnish SSR, Belomorsk, 1943

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Stalin, Ordzhonikidze and Kalinin, 1930.

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Mikhail Tukhachevsky's speech at the 7th All-Union Congress of Soviets. USSR, Moscow, January 30, 1935

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Nikolai Yezhov kisses Mikhail Kalinin after the presentation of the Order of Lenin. July 17, 1937

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Lenin, Krupskaya, their cat and the American correspondent Lincoln Eyre. Moscow, February 1920

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Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov speaks at a meeting of the Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, 1954

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"Long live the USSR - the fatherland of workers of the whole world", Soviet poster, 1931

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Joseph Stalin wearing a traditional Mongolian deel, 1936

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"Triumph of Christianity", Soviet anti-religious poster, 1923

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"Visit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin during his illness", Painting by Evgeny Osipovich Mashkevich, 1941

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Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Berlin, pledging mutual neutrality in the event of an attack by a third party before the year 1931.