Eastern Bloc Visuals
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A visual journey through central and eastern Europe from 1947 to 1991.
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Telephone given to Joseph Stalin on his 70th birthday by Polish workers, 1949.
Mikhail Gorbachev delivers his New Year message to the Soviet Union, 1988.
Swimwear store in Krakow, 1980s.
On this day in 1957, Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, died on board Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 during her one way mission to space.
Vacation in Krasnodar, USSR, 1970s.
Soviet space dogs Strelka and Belka,
the first living creatures to safely orbit the Earth and return aboard the Sputnik 5 spacecraft, 1960.
Wroclaw, 1980s.
East German border guard Conrad Schumann jumping over a barbed-wire fence during the early construction of the Berlin Wall to defect to the West, 1961.
"A woman in the USSR has equal rights to a man", Soviet poster, 1946.
Once upon a time in Moscow
Leningrad, USSR, 1960s.
East German border guards on the Berlin Wall, 1989.
A circus trainer rides a young hippo through the streets of Novokuznetsk, USSR, 1982.
Disco at Palast der Republik, East Berlin, 1970s.
Atmospheric East Berlin by night, 1970s.
Wroclaw, 1980s.
A gift shop in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, 1970s.
Marx, Engels and Lenin watch on as street sweepers clean on Red Square, Moscow, 1989.
View over Warsaw, 1950s.
Fanta arrives in the USSR ahead of the Olympic Games in Moscow, 1980.
