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On this day in Soviet History: 

January 6, 1922. Anarchist revolutionaries Emma Goldman (top) and Alexander Berkman (bottom) arrive in the USSR as refugees after their expulsion from the United States as a consequence of the First Red Scare

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Leningrad, 1965. 

Photos by Inge Morath

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Poster explaining how to cut open pages of a book (Not with your finger, Not with a pen, With a knife), USSR, 1929 (via here)

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Gonna try to relaunch this as a writing blog!!!! :0 

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“Soldiers Fall, Income Rises”, USSR, 1968

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                                                         <3 <3 <3

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On this day in Soviet History 

October 18, 1964: the Venera 4 Spacecraft lands on Venus. Though the atmosphere of that planet severely damaged it, it marks the first landing of a man-made object on Venus!

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Stamp commemorating the 26th Congress of the CPSU. 1981. 

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Leon Trotsky accidentally reveals his location. August 1940

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Not to get discursive but sometimes I can’t tell the difference between Anarchists and MLMs

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Soviet poster encouraging the rebuilding of the economy after the Great Patriotic War. 1940s. 

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Soviet border guards.

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November 7, 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

The October Revolution in paintings.

Via Borotba

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Officers of the Soviet motorized infantry during exercises.

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Не работай с ядохимикатами при сильном ветре. 1966

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Poster from the Turkmen SSR encouraging diligence against Malaria. 1930s. By A Volkov.