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Pictures and photographs from socialist countries

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Three Polish soldiers with a young woman. Polish People's Republic, 1960s.
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Erich Honecker smiling as he raises a glass during an International Women's Day reception in East Berlin, March 8, 1988.
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Polish actress Ewa Krasnodębska in the film Tarpany, 1962. Born in 1925, she survived a lightning strike, poisoning and a serious motorcycle accident.
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Matyas Rakosi, his wife Feodora Kornilova and the top leadership of the Hungarian People's Republic at the opening of the Stalin Bridge. Budapest, 1950
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Jamsrangiin Sambuu, Chairman of the Presidium of the Great People's Khural, presents the Order of Sukhbaatar and the Gold Star—the badge of a Hero of the MPR—to Soviet Marshal K.E. Voroshilov. Mongolian People's Republic, 1957.
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Irish rock band U2 with a Trabant outside Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, February 1992.
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Workers of the Limerick Soviet went on strike in protest against martial law in Ireland, April 1919.
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A supporter of Mao Zedong and Communist China was arrested by police during a demonstration in Hong Kong on May 18, 1967.
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Arrival of the first train in Ulaanbaatar. Mongolian People's Republic, 1949
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Kim Jong Il testing an amusement park combat plane ride in Pyongyang, North Korea, 1977.
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Polish actress Barbara Brylska signing autographs at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival, 1979. Photo by Nikolai Malysh
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Making of a flag for the International Communist Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, 1936.
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The flag and coat of arms of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at the gates of the former presidential palace. The first anniversary of the Saur Revolution. They remained in this form until the end of 1979.
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Whirlwinds of Danger (Варшавянка) — synth version. Scenes from Red Bells 2 (1982).
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Yugoslav postage stamp commemorating the 14th Extraordinary Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1990.
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Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro and members of the Cuban delegation on the shore of a mountain lake. Abkhaz ASSR, 1963
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Sarcophagus with the body of Klement Gottwald in the mourning hall of his Mausoleum, January-February 1955
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Fidel Castro visiting the Great Wall of China, 199
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Mao mango propaganda poster, China, 1968. Mangoes given by Mao to workers became a symbolic object during the Cultural Revolution.
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the 1960s.
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