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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 7d

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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17h

#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...

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

Yugoslavia Airlines promotional poster, 1980s.

#Yugoslavia #Yugoslavian #Airlines #Poster

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

Soviet leaders Iosif Stalin and Sergei Kirov walking along an ordinary Moscow street, 1930.

#USSR #SovietUnion #Moscow #Stalin #Kirov

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

"Fight and return to the schools, thoroughly go in for revolution!", Peoples Republic of China, February 1967. 🇨🇳

#Schools #Revolution #CulturalRevolution #PeoplesRepublicofChina #PRC #China #Education

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

The TV Tower, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1982

#TVTower #EastBerlin #Berlin #GDR #DDR #German #Democratic #Republic

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

Sukharev Tower, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Photo taken by American Branson DeCou. The tower was demolished in 1934.

#OldPhotos #Sukharev #Tower #Moscow #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 17h

Yvonne De Carlo in the film "Criss Cross" (1949).

#YvonneDeCarlo #FilmActress #Films #Actress #CrissCross

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Post number 1 Moscow at the Eternal Flame on Poklonnaya Gora. Moscow. Russia

#Moscow #MilitaryCadets #EternalFlame #Moscow #Russia

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

"Iosif Stalin at Sergei Kirov’s Coffin", painting by N.C. Rutkovsky, USSR, 1934

#Stalin #Kirov #Painting #Painter #Artist #USSR #SovietUnion

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic,

#KarlMarx #GDR #DDR #Tram #Trams #German #Democratic #Republic #Socialist #Socialism #PublicTransport

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Railway Station, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, 1960 🇨🇳

#RailwayStation #Railway #Station #Beijing #PeoplesRepublicofChina #China #PRC

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Fountain at Alexanderplatz, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 15 May 1972.

#Alexanderplatz #Fountain #EastBerlin #Berlin #East #GDR #DDR #German #Democratic #Republic

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

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

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

19th-century French line engraving titled "Ghost and Knight" or "Les Spectres au Theatre".

#Engraving #Ghost #Knight #French

Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1d

Collective farm girls posing during hay making, USSR.

#CollectiveFarm #Collective #Farm #Farms #Agriculture #Socialised #USSR #SovietUnion #Haymaking

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