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A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"
Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).
The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.
The Marshall Plan
The Sofia Monument to the Soviet Army painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag din support of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
World War II in Eastern Europe: Many Lands, Many Memories
The National Crest of Transnistria.
Transnistria: The History Behind the Russian-backed Region
This is a 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Cover of Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson.
The Soviet-German Exchange: Beyond Ideology and Opportunism
A Soviet junior political officer urges Soviet troops forward against German positions, 1942
Operation Barbarossa
Two Nord Stream pipes are welded together on the Castoro Sei pipelaying vessel in preparation for laying them beneath the Baltic Sea, 2011.
The Environmental Threat of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
A Soviet Soldier Waves the Red Banner
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of WWII in Europe
woman looking at hypodermic needle
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
An AIDS testing site in Moscow, 1987.
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets Domesticated the West
1917 Socialist-Realist worker image
The October Revolution in Russia
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920
The October Revolution in Russia
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)
Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100