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  • Old Soviet parade ground murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_3.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground illustrations show self-defence positions for Russian soldiers in the former Russian army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_2.jpg
  • A deserted landscape of a street and overgrown paths and empty housing in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_1.jpg
  • A Migoyan technician covers a Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet as it makes its first ever display appearance to a western air show audience. The Mikoyan MiG-29 or "Fulcrum" is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
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  • The tails of a The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Fulcrum) fighter jet and an Antonov An-124 Ruslan transporter are seen visiting the 1988 Farnborough Air Show. The insignia of the era, a red star and hammer and sickle are clearly seen on the aircraft, just over a year before the collapse of Communism with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Mikoyan MiG-29 or "Fulcrum" is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations.
    soviet_aircraft01-11-07-1988_1_1.jpg
  • The graffiti left on walls inside the Reichstag building by Soviet soldiers after their battles in the German capital at the end of the second world war. The building, having never been fully repaired since the fire, was damaged by air raids. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture due to its perceived symbolic significance. Today, visitors to the building can still see Soviet graffiti on smoky walls inside as well as on part of the roof, which was preserved during the reconstructions after reunification.
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  • The kitchen of an abandoned in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. The occupants appear to have left in a hurry - or were careless enough to leave possessions and fresh fruit, now rotting on the kitchen table.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990.jpg
  • Former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev attending the G7 summit on 17th July 1991 in London, England. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.
    mikhail_gorbachev01-17-07-1991.jpg
  • Former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev attending the G7 summit on 17th July 1991 in London, England. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.
    mikhail_gorbachev02-17-07-1991.jpg
  • The faces of prisoners at the location where over 10,000 Soviet prisoners were shot in 1941 in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen19-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Actors in US and Soviet army uniforms hold flags to recount German history during the second world war and later, the cold war - beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Germany. The site is near the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Here also, Berlin was separated by the occupying sectors of US, British, French and Soviet forces after WW2. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
    brandenburg_gate_tourism02-05-04-201...jpg
  • The portrait of a Soviet soldier sits high above modern Friedrishstrasse in modern Berlin at the location of  the former Checkpoint Charlie, the former border between Communist East and West Berlin during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
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  • Front garden with statue of Lenin as an ornament, 9th September, 2007, Highgate, London, United Kingdom. Many Lenin statues became available when the Soviet block collapsed in the late 1980s.  Ukraine removed all 1,320 statues following a government drive to rid the country of Soviet-era symbols.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-22-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-48-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-35-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-30-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-28-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-22-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-14-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-15-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-04-01-05-2018.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. Two seemingly gay men are kissing on the lips but this is one of the most famous paintings – a symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War. It shows Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_kiss-04-11-1990_1.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery05-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery01-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc era, pro-Communist Germans carrying Soviet and DDR flags march in Berlin, on 4th November 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    90s_germany-15-06-1990_4.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-26-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-16-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-05-01-05-2018.jpg
  • 9th September Place. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Pamphlets and literature on a stall of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-12-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians living in the UK march through Westminster in central London to honour those fallen during the second world war (1939-45) 9th May, 2016. Thousands of Russian-speakers gathered in Trafalgar Square, progressing via Downing Street (the official residence of British Prime Minister David Cameron) before continuing to Parliament Square. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images.
    bus_ad54-09-05-2016.jpg
  • Soviet Liberation Memorial to those murdered in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen16-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Soviet Liberation Memorial to those murdered in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen17-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Home to hundreds of prisoners, a detail of Hut 39, renovated and kept as an exhibit in the Nazi and Soviet and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen09-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The Sachsenhausen Crematorium Memorial to those murdered in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen21-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Coils of rusting barbed wire in winter snow form a perimeter fence in the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen08-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A remembrance for Theodore Winter, a German carpenter, Communist and resistance fighter against the Nazis who was held in the special prison block of the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen10-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • An outdoor exhibition panel showing a dead prisoner during the Todesmarsch (Death March) from Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen02-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Coils of rusting barbed wire in winter snow form a perimeter fence in the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen15-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Coils of rusting barbed wire in winter snow form a perimeter fence in the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen07-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Stained glass showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen04-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • The notorious moto in German labour and extermination camps Arbeit Macht Frei ('Work will set you free') in the Nazi and Soviet Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen06-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Stained glass showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp during WW2, now known as the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen03-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • A tourist couple enter the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum. Sachsenhausen was a Nazi and Soviet concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD special camp until 1950. Executions took place at Sachsenhausen, especially of Soviet prisoners of war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.
    berlin_sachsenhausen01-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Seen from the air at dawn, the last remaining B-52 bombers from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total. In the nuclear arms treaties of the 80s, Soviet satellites proved their decommissioning by spying the tails had been sliced apart huge guillotines and set at right-angles. This is a scene of confrontation, with opposing forces apparently facing each other in the way that Soviet and western armies fought the war of propaganda. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-10-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-58-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-60-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-57-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-54-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-44-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-53-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-42-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-39-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-38-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-37-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-33-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-09-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-07-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-05-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-03-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-02-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-01-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Stalinist architecture in Letna Park Letenske Sady, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Up until it was destroyed by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev, the largest statue to Stalin in the entire Eastern Bloc was located here. It is now a favourite place skateboard park, dog walkers and families.
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  • A Prague citizen descends Stalinist-era steps in Letna Park Letenske Sady, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Up until it was destroyed by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev, the largest statue to Stalin in the entire Eastern Bloc was located here. It is now a favourite place skateboard park, dog walkers and families. Like Rome, Prague is built on seven hills.
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  • 21st century shoes hang from cables above Stalinist-era architecture in Letna Park Letenske Sady, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Up until it was destroyed by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev, the largest statue to Stalin in the entire Eastern Bloc was located here. It is now a favourite place skateboard park, dog walkers and families. Like Rome, Prague is built on seven hills.
    prague-28-18-03-2018.jpg
  • Stalinist architecture in Letna Park Letenske Sady, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Up until it was destroyed by Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev, the largest statue to Stalin in the entire Eastern Bloc was located here. It is now a favourite place skateboard park, dog walkers and families.
    prague-31-18-03-2018.jpg
  • A cross in sunlight shows the Katyn memorial set in a forest in Warsaw, Poland. The Katyn war cemetery is a Polish military cemetery located in Warsaw commemorating the massacre of Polish officers during the second world war although the town of Katyn is a small village near Smolensk, Russia. It contains the remnants of 4,412 Polish officers of the Kozelsk prisoner of war camp, who were murdered in 1940 in what is called the Katyn massacre. The soldiers were buried in six large mass graves. Until 1991 it was known that the Nazis were responsible but after the end of Communism did they Russians admit that Stalin's forces killed the Poles. There is also a Russian part of the cemetery, where an undisclosed number of victims of the Soviet Great Purges of the 1930's were buried by the NKVD. The cemetery was officially opened in 2000.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda.
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  • Outskirts of Korce. A bunker, one of 700,000, has been built outside the house for protection against an unseen enemy. The bunkers, each large enough for a man and his rifle, were built by Albania's Stalinist dictator Hoxha between 1950-1985, who propigated the fear of invasion from all corners, from NATO and even the Soviet Union, against an enemy that never came.<br />
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It is said that when a prototype for the bunkers was presented to Hoxha, he demanded the architect to go inside of it. A tank was then ordered to open fire. The bunker withstood the shelling, the architect survived, and Hoxha gave the go ahead to build replicas of the prototype all over the country. There is still one bunker for every four Albanians today, and nobody seems to know what to do with them.
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  • A young homeless child crouched on the ground on Boulevard Stalin in the centre of Tirana. Albania practiced a militant form of Communism, withstanding the reforms of other Eastern Europe’s “revisionist wave” since the 1956 thaw. Alienated from both East and West, Albania adopted a “go-it-alone” policy and became notorious as an isolated bastion of Stalinism with statues revering “the last communist leader” in most city squares.<br />
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In December 1990 the party ordered all statues and symbols bearing his name removed. The decision to excise Stalin from public life came on what would have been the Soviet dictator’s 111th birthday. A crane moved into Tirana’s Stalin Boulevard at midnight on Thursday 21st December 1991 and loaded the dark bronze statue onto a truck, its head hanging over the back.
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  • Marching soldiers Tirana. The ranks and the structure of the Albanian Armed Forces were organised based on the Soviet concepts, thus increasing the political control of the State-Party over the Armed Forces.<br />
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Like all other branches of the state, the military was subjugated to Communist Party control. All high-ranking military officers and most of the lower and middle ranks were members of the Communist Party - and had loyalties to it. The State and Party went even further in 1966, when military ranks were abolished following the example of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and the military commander was insignificant with respect to the commanding role of the political commissars.<br />
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The Sigurimi, was responsible for the execution, the imprisonment and deportation of more than 600 Officers from the Armed Forces, thereby completely neutralizing the Armed Forces ability to start a coup d’état. As the communist regime collapsed in Albania during 1990, there was a real fear that the armed forces might intervene to halt the collapse of communism by force. In the event, the armed forces stood by as the regime of which they had been a part disintegrated.
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  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-51-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Russians and Russian-speakers from around the Russian Federation and former Soviet states such as the Baltics and of all generations, celebrate Victory Day, the annual commemoration remembering the sacrifice of Red Army heroes who defeated facism during WW2 - marching through the heart of British government in Whitehall, Parliament Square and ending outside Parliament itself, on 9th May 2018, in London, England.
    russians_victory_day-49-09-05-2018.jpg
  • Polish students learn about the Katyn massacre on Grodzka street, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland. The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by Soviet secret police in April and May 1940. Though the killings occurred in several locations, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered.
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  • A statue of Stalin overlooking the centre of town in Korce. Albania practiced a militant form of Communism, withstanding the reforms of other Eastern Europe’s “revisionist wave” since the 1956 thaw. Alienated from both East and West, Albania adopted a “go-it-alone” policy and became notorious as an isolated bastion of Stalinism with statues revering “the last communist leader” in most city squares.<br />
<br />
In December 1990 the party ordered all statues and symbols bearing his name removed. The decision to excise Stalin from public life came on what would have been the Soviet dictator’s 111th birthday. A crane moved into Tirana’s Stalin Boulevard at midnight on Thursday 21st December 1991 and loaded the dark bronze statue onto a truck, its head hanging over the back.
    Albania018_1_1.jpg
  • Gold painted tank with flowers protruding from its gun barrel on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Mandela Way T-34 Tank, nicknamed Stompie or Stumpie, is a decommissioned Soviet-built T-34-85 battle tank, now permanently located on the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk in Bermondsey.
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  • Gold painted tank with flowers protruding from its gun barrel on 9th January 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. The Mandela Way T-34 Tank, nicknamed Stompie or Stumpie, is a decommissioned Soviet-built T-34-85 battle tank, now permanently located on the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk in Bermondsey.
    20200109_stompie tank_001.jpg
  • Young Hungarians socialise and kiss beneath a Soviet-era memorial, on 18th June 1990, in Budapest, Hungary.
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  • Akba has been a soldier and guard for fifteen years. He originally fought  in the Mujahideen against the Soviets with the warlord Gulbuddin before most recently, joining Majad Maly to fight against the Taliban in Khandahar province. Now he is a security guard working for WRN (Witan Risk management ).
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