Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...

Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...

Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...

Lenin and others in Red Square for the military parade and speeches, May 25, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #1354

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...

From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...

"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...

The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...

Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...

A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the famous 1943 'To the West' war...

Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a part of the classic Red Army...

Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the classic Red Revolutionary Civil...

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows Lenin addressing and rallying the...

Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...

Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...