r/SovietUnion • • Apr 25 '25

On this day, April 25, 1945, Soviet forces ☭ completed their encirclement of Berlin, cutting off all access points west of the German capital. "Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid." Ernest Hemingway

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r/SovietUnion • • Jul 08 '25

Paul Robeson visits the Soviet Union

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Paul Robeson visited the USSR at the same time lynchings were still happening in the U.S. Prejudice was no where near as common in the USSR; all people were allowed to live freely and with dignity


r/SovietUnion • • May 02 '26

81 years ago: Liberation of Berlin

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r/SovietUnion • • Aug 29 '25

Soviet propaganda poster

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This Soviet-era propaganda poster warns against the dangers of speeding. It shows a car split in two: the left half remains pristine, representing careful driving at safe speeds.


r/SovietUnion • • May 28 '25

Soviet & Belarussian flag in Belgium

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Seen today near my place in Belgium. It doesn’t take much to be happy.


r/SovietUnion • • Jan 14 '26

De-Stalinization

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power,[1] and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system.

Monuments to Stalin were removed, his name was removed from places, buildings, and the state anthem, and his body was removed from the Lenin Mausoleum (known as the Lenin and Stalin Mausoleum from 1953 to 1961) and buried. These reforms were started by the collective leadership which succeeded him after his death on 5 March 1953, comprising Georgi Malenkov, Premier of the Soviet Union; Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Ministry of the Interior; and Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSwcLmyMSFA

these pictures are from the Hungarian counter-revolution of 1956


r/SovietUnion • • Apr 04 '26

Soviet streets (70s)

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the daily life of a Soviet


r/SovietUnion • • Feb 15 '26

The end of CCCP

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r/SovietUnion • • Mar 13 '25

Soviet soldiers waving the USSR flag over the Reichstag after winning the battle of Berlin, May 2nd, 1945

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r/SovietUnion • • Feb 26 '25

Soviet Children living in Siberia getting UV light exposure during the long dark winter months, 1987

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r/SovietUnion • • May 08 '26

Today’s Victory Day, marking the defeat of fascism and Nazi Germany, we remember one of the most famous moments from newly liberated Berlin. The video shows Lydia Spivak, a young Red Army woman, dancing and directing traffic in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

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r/SovietUnion • • Nov 11 '25

I hate this pig

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Sincerely, I hope this pig is suffering eternally in hell, burning with all the alcohol that he drank on his miserable life.


r/SovietUnion • • Aug 23 '25

Soviet (Latvian SSR) Actor Viktors Lorencs from the movie "Come and See" (1985)

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r/SovietUnion • • Mar 09 '25

This is what capitalism does to people, be more sigma

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r/SovietUnion • • Oct 19 '25

Lenin may cry to see this:

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r/SovietUnion • • May 08 '26

Funeral of Yuri Gagarin

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r/SovietUnion • • May 16 '26

Castro and Gagarin

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r/SovietUnion • • Jan 11 '26

German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk

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r/SovietUnion • • May 06 '26

Buran and Mriya, 3/5/89

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r/SovietUnion • • Mar 22 '26

"Traitor!" — A Retired Colonel Shouts to One of the Demonstrators Who Demanded an End to Communism, (1990), Red Square, Moscow. Photograph: Cary Wolinsky

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r/SovietUnion • • Feb 12 '26 Bravo

Flags Of The Soviet Union Plus The Soviet Navy Flag.

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r/SovietUnion • • Nov 17 '25

"An Orthodox funeral mass in a Lebanese village in honor of Joseph Stalin, 1953"

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r/SovietUnion • • May 16 '26

Poster celebrating 25 years of Warsaw Pact

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r/SovietUnion • • Feb 20 '26

Buran Orbiter 1K1 landing alongside a MiG-25

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