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On 15th October 1967, in the hero city of Volgograd (Stalingrad), the construction of the monument "The Motherland Calls" was completed.

#TheMotherlandCalls #Volgograd #Stalingrad #USSR #SovietUnion #Victory #Liberation
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#OtD 22 Oct 1889 over 600 women tailors in Leeds, UK, walked out on strike against the harsh system of fines and deductions. The strike lasted six weeks and ended in defeat, but over time concessions were made to the workers. More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9516...
Soviet leaders Iosif Stalin and Sergei Kirov walking along an ordinary Moscow street, 1930.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Moscow #Stalin #Kirov
"Fight and return to the schools, thoroughly go in for revolution!", Peoples Republic of China, February 1967. 🇨🇳

#Schools #Revolution #CulturalRevolution #PeoplesRepublicofChina #PRC #China #Education
Sukharev Tower, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Photo taken by American Branson DeCou. The tower was demolished in 1934.

#OldPhotos #Sukharev #Tower #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion
Post number 1 Moscow at the Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Gora. Moscow. Russia

#Moscow #MilitaryCadets #EternalFlame #Moscow #Russia
Female military personnel from barrage balloon units on Stalin Avenue in Murmansk during the Great Patriotic War, USSR, 1943

#BarrageBalloon #Stalin #Avenue #Murmansk #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #Great #Patriotic #War
"Iosif Stalin at Sergei Kirov’s Coffin", painting by N.C. Rutkovsky, USSR, 1934

#Stalin #Kirov #Painting #Painter #Artist #USSR #SovietUnion
A photo of Natacha Rambova, wife of actor Rudolph Valentino, in the 1920s.

Rambova was born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1897, to a Mormon family. Later in life, Rambova became a successful and respected Egyptologist.

#NatachaRambova #SaltLakeCity
The Vladimir Gates of Kitay-Gorod, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Photo by American Branson DeCou.

They were demolished in 1934 as part of major reconstruction of the area.

#Vladimir #KitayGorod #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion
Soviet internationalist troops on deployment in Afghanistan supporting the progressive People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in power, under attack from Islamic and other terrorist insurgency forces backed by the United States.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Soviet #Afghanistan #UnitedStates
Fountain at Alexanderplatz, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 15 May 1972.

#Alexanderplatz #Fountain #EastBerlin #Berlin #East #GDR #DDR #German #Democratic #Republic
The principal resources of the democratic Palestinian state would be publicly owned and subject to the democratic control and direction of the Palestinian people for the benefit of the people.
It advocates a democratic Palestinian state covering the whole of what was Mandate Palestine, in which all legitimate inhabitants would enjoy full equality and respect, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, other beliefs, politics etc.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is the second largest secular formation in the Palestinian resistance and national liberation movement. ☭ 🇵🇸

#PFLP #Palestine #Democratic #FreePalestine #PalestineShallBeFree #VivaPalestinaLibre!
The flag of the DDR (German Democratic Republic) behind the Quadriga over the Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin. April 1990

#GDR #DDR #Quadriga #BrandenburgGate #Berlin #EastBerlin #German #Democratic #Republic
Béla Lugosi, famous as the Hungarian vampire. Less known about him, he was an ardent Bolshevik in Budapest during the 1919 Soviet Revolution, prominent in the union of actors and artists.

#BelaLugosi #Hungary #HungarianVampire #SovietRevolution #Film #Actor #FilmActor #Bolshevik #Bolsheviks
She died allegedly from suicide along two other RAF leaders in Stammheim Prison in what became known as the "Night of Death" on 18 October 1977.

Irmgard Möller who survived the alleged suicide pact later alleged these were extrajudicial killings by the West German state
Gudrun Ensslin was a foundation member of the leftist Red Army Faction which operated in West Germany and engaged in armed struggle against the state.

#GudrunEnsslin #RedArmyFaction #RAF #WestGermany
19th-century French line engraving titled "Ghost and Knight" or "Les Spectres au Theatre".

#Engraving #Ghost #Knight #French