Soviet Union

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view of the site of the explosion in Tunguska
The Tunguska Mystery Explosion
a plane flying over a group of West Berlin citizens
The Berlin Airlift
anti-communists and nationalists place a Hungarian national flag atop a demolished statue of Josef Stalin
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
soldier holding a bomb in the air
Operation Barbarossa
resident Harry Truman, left, congratulates Gen. George Marshall (architect of the Marshall Plan) , Fair Use via AP
The Marshall Plan
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift
Moskvitch 3 vehicles roll off the assembly line at JSC Moscow Automobile Plant Moskvitch, 2022.
Sanctions on Russia: Impact and Efficacy
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
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
Soviet Union soldier holding a Soviet flag in the air
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of WWII in Europe
a woman holding a needle with drugs in it
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
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