RM2JCP3AM–Broken down Moskvitch, Russian automobile, left on the Krestovskiy Pereulok and Prospect Mira in northern Moscow in 1991, months before the end of the Soviet Union.
RMRBYNRD–RED SQUARE VICTORY DAY 1945 MAY MOSCOW WW2 WORLD WAR II Hostilities end searchlights in the sky celebrate Nazi Germany defeat and surrender Moscow Red Square 1945 searchlights and fireworks in the sky signal the end of World War II Celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square, Soviet Union May 9, 1945
RME0YMEW–Oct. 10, 1970 - At the end of his official visit to the Soviet Union, President Pompidou signed an agreement with the Kremlin leaders that will allow them to intensify political relations between France and the USSR. Fidel Castro During a Speech
RM2CMMN9W–A bust of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin stands in a workshop of the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, about 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their allies overseas. The
RM2K02J7C–Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (1908 - 1984) Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician during the Cold War. Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984. While serving as People's Commissar of Armaments during World War II, he achieved distinction within the party's ranks by successfully overseeing the evacuation of Leningrad's industries to the Ural Mountains. At the war's end, he was entrusted with seizing raw materials, scientists and research left over from Germany's missile programme.
RMDRDT5F–Sverdlov Square, Moscow, Soviet Union
RMPWE9R4–Leipzig, Saxony. 16th Oct, 2018. The programmes of the International Documentary and Animation Film Festival (DOK) will be presented at a press conference in Leipzig. At the 61st edition of the festival, 306 films from 50 countries will be shown between 29 October and 04 November. Under the motto 'Demand the Impossible', the DOK is concerned, among other things, with the conflict with the 1968 generation and the end of the Soviet Union. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News
RMF2B2F2–Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the National Press Club, Sept. 27, 1959. At the end of his 12 day American visit, relations with the Soviet Union were better than they had been since the end of World War II. (CSU 2015 8 539)
RFJ28JM1–Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Timur-Lenk, also known as Tamerlane, was a legendary Central Asian military leader. After the end of the Soviet Union
RM2J3NHCD–National flags of France and the Soviet Union wave at the entrance to the Museum of the Surrender (Musée de la Reddition) in Reims, France. The first German Instrument of Surrender that ended World War II in Europe was signed in this building at 02:41 Central European Time (CET) on 7 May 1945.
RMMPWKFW–Soviet border guard with his dog, End 1930s.
RMEKXN7Y–Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. August 1968.
RM2HA6D4P–Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping greets former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in the Great Hall of the People in May 1989. Their meeting is considered the end of the 'Sino-Soviet split.'
RMDWH73B–Postage stamp from the Soviet Union depicting the Order of Victory Medal (for the 25'th anniversary of the end of World War II).
RM2F40H76–Russian research vessel Akademik Sergey Vavilov ready to travel from Ushuaia to Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
RMBTKFW5–Soviet freighter ANESOV, escorted by a United States Navy plane and the destroyer, USS BARRY, as it leaves Cuba loaded with missiles signaling the end of Cuban Missile Crisis. October 1962.
RMTA34XF–Portrait of Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko, commander of the Soviet Submarine S-13, who was responsible for the sinking of the 'Wilhelm Gustloff' and the 'Steuben' at the end of the Second World War.
RM2H6D517–Woman holding sign, branding Russian human rights group Memorial a 'foreign agent'. Russia's oldest human rights organisation has been documenting political terror during the Soviet era, especially during Stalin's rule, as well as current human rights abuses in Russia since the end of the 1980s. In recent years, Russian authorities have declared the group a 'foreign agent''. In November 2021 Russian prosecutors started procedures to shut down the organisation,.
RMBREKK2–CUBA. LATE PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO AND EX PREMIER GORBACHEV IN HAVANA IN 1989 BEFORE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION
RM2JC65FC–Rizhsky Market, April 1991. Outside of the largest public market in Moscow, during the last year of the Soviet Union.
RM2BP9WHB–1960 Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev in a convertible Russian ZIL-111B in Stalin Allee East Berlin Germany. The ZiL-111 was a limousine produced by the Soviet car manufacturer ZiL in 1958–1967. It was the first post-war limousine designed in the Soviet Union . On 21 May 1960, Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, gave an address at the Sports Arena in East Berlin beneath a banner calling for an end to provocations by the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), as well as for general disarmament.
RME0YRHG–Apr. 04, 1971 - Tired but victorious-the Czechs beat Soviet Union 5:2: By beating the Soviet Union by the clearcut score of 5 goals vs 2 the Czech created a sensation of this year's ice hockey world championships, now in their end phase in Geneva. The exercions of the game are clearly seen on the faces of the Czechs when they leave the ice rink after the game. If Russia looses against Sweden Czechs will be world and Europa Champions.
RM2CKK8PM–A woman wets the surface of a clay figure that is to be used to cast porcelain sculptures in the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their alli
RM2BP6D9K–Soviet flag in Berlin, Treptower Park, 74 years after the end of world war II
RMBHKD60–events, Second World War / WWII, Russia 1945 / 1945, Red Army soldiers talking to civilians, probably 1945, end of war, victors, victory, 20th century, historic, historical, Soviet Union, conversation, smiling, occupation, USSR, occupying force, women, children, kids, people, 1940s,
RMPWE9PP–Leipzig, Saxony. 16th Oct, 2018. The programmes of the International Documentary and Animation Film Festival (DOK) will be presented at a press conference in Leipzig. At the 61st edition of the festival, 306 films from 50 countries will be shown between 29 October and 04 November. Under the motto 'Demand the Impossible', the DOK is concerned, among other things, with the conflict with the 1968 generation and the end of the Soviet Union. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News
RM2M3P3Y6–Nemesis, or the Russian peril approaching Germany, in the early days of the First World War. Above: a view of Konigsberg, the capital of East Prussia (it is now Kaliningrad, conquered by the Soviet Union towards the end of the Second World War). Lower left: General Paul (Pavel Karlovich) von Rennenkampf of the Russian army, leading the invasion of Germany. Lower right: a view of Posen, capital of the Polish province annexed by Prussia in the 18th century (since 1919 Poznan in Poland). Date: 1914
RMB3EG4J–Soviet soldier with Berliners / 1945
RM2J3NJ0A–National flags of France and the Soviet Union wave at the entrance to the Museum of the Surrender (Musée de la Reddition) in Reims, France. The first German Instrument of Surrender that ended World War II in Europe was signed in this building at 02:41 Central European Time (CET) on 7 May 1945.
RM2B01942–Korea/USA: A USAF recruiting poster for Women in the Air Force (WAF) during the Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953), 1951. The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
RMEKXN62–Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. Czech children playing on a burnt out Russian tank. August 1968.
RM2HCRNH6–Former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping greets former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in the Great Hall of the People in May 1989. Their meeting is considered the end of the 'Sino-Soviet split.'
RMH2CG16–Postage stamp from the Soviet Union depicting a soldier and armed forces (end of World War 2, victory over fascism, 40th ann.)
RMFXH14G–Russisches Flugzeug über Wien
RM2K02RJ4–Lenin V. I. , Krupskaya N. K. and Ulyanova M. I. in a car after the end of the parade of the Red Army units on the Khodynskoye field. 1918, May 1. Moscow. Photographer - P. K. Novitsky
RMTA299B–A cheerful laughing Soviet soldier carries a bronze Hitler's head as a souvenir, which he has found in the rubble of the destroyed Reich Chancellery immediately after the end of the fighting.
RMW2CXKP–Victory Day celebration May 9, 1945.
RMBJK7MJ–CUBA. LATE PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO,EX PREMIER GORBACHEV AND RAUL CASTRO IN HAVANA 1989 BEFORE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION
RM2J476WP–File Photo: Ukrainian “Red Baret” soldiers with Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles in November of 1991, Military base north of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine.
RM2AHB27X–Original WW2 vintage Anschluss propaganda poster published by the Austrian People's Party (Ostereichische Volkspartei OVP; founded 1945) featuring a colourful and dynamic design against a dark blue background of a map of Austria imprisoned behind Nazi prison bars with the dates 1938 in red and 1948 in white and shadows forming the flags of the Allied countries to symbolise Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany into the Third Reich in 1938 (Anschluss) until the end of World War Two in 1945 followed by the Allied occupation ((France, UK, USA, Soviet Union). 1948, country of printing: Austria,
RME0WFTJ–Nov. 11, 1962 - Press -ball in Bonn: A grand on the last week-end was the press-ball in the Beethoven-hall of Bonn. Prominent guests was the president of the Federal Republic of Germany, numerous minister and diplomats. Photo shows The German minister Dr. Gerhard Schroder (GERHARD SCHRODER) speaks with the ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic Smirnow (SMIRNOW) and Mrs. Smirnow.
RM2CHRKAR–A woman works on a clay figure that is to be used to cast porcelain sculptures in the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their allies overseas
RM2BP6B04–Flowers at Soviet monument in Berlin, 9th of May 2019
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RMGNA7C1–Berlin, Germany. 23rd Aug, 2016. The CDU Bundestag Representative, Henry Zertik, looks in the camera to the photographer at his office in Berlin, Germany, 23 August 2016. When many Russians experienced the end of the Soviet Union and moved to Germany, many chose to vote for the CDU - also out of gratitude for the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Now it is eagerly awaited, who that demographic will vote for in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives. Photo: KAY NIETFELD/dpa/Alamy Live News
RMJ444WD–Moscow, Russia. 9th May, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers remarks during a reception celebrating Victory Day marking the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II in the Kremlin May 9, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. Credit: Planetpix/Alamy Live News
RMB3EFWR–Soviet tank / Berlin / 1945
RM2J3NHR0–National flags of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France and the Soviet Union wave at the entrance to the Museum of the Surrender (Musée de la Reddition) in Reims, France. The first German Instrument of Surrender that ended World War II in Europe was signed in this building at 02:41 Central European Time (CET) on 7 May 1945.
RM2B01944–Korea/USA: A USAF recruiting poster from the last year of the Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953), 1953. The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
RMEKXPHG–Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. Czech children playing on a burnt out Russian tank. August 1968.
RM2HA6D4G–Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa depart from Beijing Airport in May 1989 after a summit with Chinese leaders including Deng Xiaoping. The visit is considered the end of the 'Sino-Soviet split.'
RME1EA05–Postage stamp from the Soviet Union depicting V. Bogatkin illustration 'Attack on Moscow'
RMFXD8F3–Russisches Flugzeug über Wien
RM2B1E021–All in the Past 1890 by Vasily Maximov Russia, Russian, Federation,( The End of Russian nobility )
RM2DBHXP1–Ioseb Besarionis dz? Djugashvili, adopted name Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1954. Photos of Stalin destined for publication were carefully selected and were intended to support the personality cult around him. The photograph was taken in 1943 at the end of the Tehran Conference.
RMW2CXKD–Victory Day celebration May 9, 1945.
RMBJK979–CUBA. LATE PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO AND EX PREMIER GORBACHEV SIGNING TREATY OF CO-OPERATION IN HAVANA 1989 BEFORE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION
RMATA0EG–Rubles and Kopecks the currency of the Former Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia.
RM2E1KT7B–Elbe Day (1945). American soldiers and Russian soldiers fraternize after their meeting on the river Elbe, at 140 km south of Berlin.
RME11XYN–Soviet historian, author and dissident ANDRE AMALRIK
RM2CRMMJH–A woman works on a clay figure that is to be used to cast porcelain sculptures in the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, about 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their allies ov
RM2M3PEEF–Ja'far Pishevari (1893-1947) arrives in Tehran at the end of April 1946 for talks with the Iranian Prime Minister. In November 1945, backed by the Soviet Union, Pishevari had founded the communist Azerbaijan People's Government in north-west Iran. Date: April 1946
RMBKE703–events, Second World War / WWII, Austria, end of war, Vienna 1945,
RMPWE9PH–Leipzig, Saxony. 16th Oct, 2018. Leena Pasanen, director of the Leipzig Dok-Filmfestival, recorded at a press conference in Leipzig. At the 61st edition of the International Documentary and Animation Film Festival (DOK) 306 films from 50 countries will be shown between 29 October and 04 November. Under the motto 'Demand the impossible! 'the DOK is about, among other things, the confrontation with the 1968 generation and the end of the Soviet Union. Credit: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News
RM2JTGG9F–File photo dated 17/12/84 of former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, according to Russian media. Issue date: Tuesday August 30, 2022.
RMB3EG0P–Soviet military policewoman/Berlin/1945
RMHHWXBH–Artworks by Russian conceptual artist Dmitry Prigov on display at the exhibition devoted to Soviet and Russian contemporary art from 1950 to 2000 in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Artworks from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 1990s pictured from left to right: The Can of Thanks; The Can of Garbage; The Can of Signatures; The Can of Darkness. The exhibition entitled Kollektsia! (Collection!) runs till 27 March 2017.
RM2B031KK–Chinese residents of the city of Harbin welcome Soviet sailors of the Amur Military Flotilla, 1st Brigade following the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. The campaign began on 9 August 1945, with the Soviet and Mongolian invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China and was the largest campaign of the 1945 Soviet-Japanese War, which resumed hostilities between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace. The rapid defeat of Japan’s Kwantung Army has been argued to be a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the end o
RMEKXN7D–Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. Czech children playing on a burnt out Russian tank. August 1968.
RMAF1YNA–Sunset over the Baltic St Petersberg
RME03FKX–Postage stamp from the Soviet Union (USSR) depicting the Y. Neprintsev painting 'Rest after the Battle'
RMCT9XEJ–New fast food and old soviet painting on a wall of a building Târgu Mureș, Carpathian Transylvania, Romania, Eastern Europe, EU
RMHM5X28–Kennebunkport, Maine - August 21, 1991 -- United States President George H.W. Bush talks with President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) from his Kennebunkport, Maine home on August 21, 1991 concenring the end of the
RM2DBHNCK–Hitler at the session of the Reichstag, where he declared the defeat of the USSR to be imminent. Next to him are Joachim von Ribbentropp, Erich Raeder and Walther von Brauchitsch. The latter was held responsible by Hitler for the defeat by the Soviet Union and was placed in the Fuehrerreserve (“Officers Reserve”) , and was not given any assignment until the end of the war. In the background are Reichstag President Hermann Goering and Hitler's adjutant Julius Schaub.
RM2EA9NKP–A meeting of the victorious Soviet soldiers at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow in 1945.
RMBJK93H–CUBA. LATE PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO AND EX PREMIER GORBACHEV SIGNING TREATY OF CO-OPERATION IN HAVANA 1989 BEFORE COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION
RM2AYT0JY–State store, Moscow, Russia / Soviet Union, 1991. Young boy with his Mother at the meat counter of a Soviet State store at the end of the work day.
RMMKJM4B–Bucharest, Romania. 8th May, 2018. A veteran attends ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the end of World War II at the World War II Soviet Union heroes cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, May 8, 2018. Members of Russian community and former Soviet states community in Romania as well as local authorities took part in the ceremonies. Credit: Cristian Cristel/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
RME12M2X–Feb. 24, 2012 - LEONID BRESCHNEW AND THE OLYMPIC BEAR. The mascot - will it keep, what was expected by it or will this plushy symbol. Nobody knows in which way the American call for boy cotting the Olympic Games in Moscow / USSR (because of the Soviet Union's invasion in Afghanistan) will end. On the occassion of opening the 82nd session of the IOC on Lake Placid the American foreign Minister Vance directed strong attacks against the government of the Soviet Union, which is without example in the history of the IOC
RM2CK8PFY–A woman paints pottery in the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their allies overseas. Picture taken February 20, 2009. To match feature RUSS
RMW8NX8N–Gas mask and other essentials? A random cllection of items that maybe fell to the floor together. This is an image of what I found on the floor of a primary school classrom in Chernobyl. The place is in decay, and a buckled bicycle wheel lies with a gasmask and coat hooks.
RM2K8MNAX–Leningrad Russia 1955. Werna Gerhardsen and Einar Gerhardsen in the Soviet Union at a Norwegian delegation to discuss the opportunities for an extended trade agreement. Here the married couple Gerhardsen (for the end of the table) during a meal in the luxurious residence made to the couple's disposal in Leningrad. Photo: Current / NTB
RMGNA7C3–Berlin, Germany. 29th Aug, 2016. An election campaign brochure from far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as seen in both Russian and German languages in Berlin, Germany, 29 August 2016. When many Russians experienced the end of the Soviet Union and moved to Germany, many chose to vote for the CDU - also out of gratitude for the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Now who that demographic will vote for in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives is eargerly awaited. Photo: KAY NIETFELD/dpa/Alamy Live News
RM2JTGG98–File photo dated15/12/1984 of Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, the Soviet Politburo member, sightseeing at the British Museum, London, with his wife Raisa. Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, according to Russian media. Issue date: Tuesday August 30, 2022.
RMB3EFX7–Soviet troops / Berlin / 1945
RM2J3NHJX–National flags of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France and the Soviet Union wave at the entrance to the Museum of the Surrender (Musée de la Reddition) in Reims, France. The first German Instrument of Surrender that ended World War II in Europe was signed in this building at 02:41 Central European Time (CET) on 7 May 1945.
RM2B01814–Korea: During the Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) an interrogation team of the US 7th Infantry Division question a POW, Anvang-Ni, 20 September, 1950. The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
RMEKXMPF–Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. A Russian tank patrols in Wenselas Square as locals walk by. August 1968.
RMKWB70G–Two older POWs fighting in the German army were White Russian Mongols. At the end of the war they would be forcibly repatriated to an unpromising future in the Soviet Union (Russia). August, 11, 1944, near Nonat le Pin, France. World War 2. (BSLOC 2014 8 91)
RMDENHFW–Postage stamp from the Soviet Union depicting buildings under construction in Warsaw (20th ann. of liberation from Nazi Germany0
RFTRP14T–Chernobyl 2019
RM2JW0MTR–Kennebunkport, Maine - August 21, 1991 -- United States President George H.W. Bush talks with President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) from his Kennebunkport, Maine home on August 21, 1991 concenring the end of the coup in the Soviet Union. First lady Barbara Bush listens..Credit: White House via CNP /MediaPunch
RMTA2655–Immediately following the war Zhukov was the supreme Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany, and became its Military Governor on June 10, 1945,
RM2EA9NKG–A meeting of the victorious Soviet soldiers at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow in 1945.
RF2G7N7X6–Sorvesaar,Estonia-06.21.2021: Lighthouse at the end of Sorve saar peninsula. Tall beacon of light for the ship to guide them. Couple walking up to the tall tower holding hands.
RM2J1RH70–A Russian couple in their 90’s living on a 200 Ruble a month pension in their kitchen in Moscow in late 1991.
RMMKJMA3–Bucharest, Romania. 8th May, 2018. A woman holds carnations during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the end of World War II at the World War II Soviet Union heroes cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, May 8, 2018. Members of Russian community and former Soviet states community in Romania as well as local authorities took part in the ceremonies. Credit: Cristian Cristel/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
RME12GEW–Jan. 10, 2012 - Russian goods vans in the Federal Republic of Germany. On April 1st and 2nd in Bonn, Soviet railroad freight cars where loaded with furniture, for the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow. By this for the first time since the end of the Second World War Russian vans came to the Federal Republic of Germany. The settlements of the wheels must be changed, because in the Soviet Union the lines are 15 centimetre wider. There has taken a lot of time, till the Soviets let drive the vans to Bonn. At first was planned the usual method, that means to change the material in Brest-Litowsk
RM2CM7304–A woman paints a porcelain figure in the Dulevo Porcelain factory in the town of Dulevo, about 115 km (73 miles) from Moscow February 20, 2009. A Tsarist-era porcelain factory that survived the Russian revolution and the end of the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, its plight typical of hundreds of outmoded industrial plants across this vast country. Founded in 1832, the Dulevo Porcelain pottery once supplied the Russian court. In the 20th century, it produced special communist revolutionary pieces for the Bolshevik elite and their allies overseas. Picture taken February 20, 2009. To m
RFMKHMGT–Palace of Culture and Science, the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland. Gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland during the end of a sunset.
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