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Buy Prints How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev, the fifth leader of the USSR, ran across the tarmac to bear-hug his favourite actor, and star of his favourite TV show The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, who then lifted the Soviet leader clear off the ground. ...
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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...
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Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. - Pablo Neruda, ...
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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...
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Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Catching up with the orphans whose plight horrified the world ...
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Snapshots From A School Trip To The Inner German Border in 1972

Snapshots From A School Trip To The Inner German Border in 1972

"In my mind, they were like prisoners. I remember that I was fascinated by the signs saying 'Achtung!' and the guards who were patrolling" ...
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Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

“After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit ...
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Stalin’s Rope Roads

Stalin’s Rope Roads

"People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea as a kind of second heaven" - John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal ...
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My Unusual Family Holiday To East Berlin (Easter 1986)

My Unusual Family Holiday To East Berlin (Easter 1986)

While East Germany wasn't the most obvious choice of holiday destination for most families in the 1980s, my parents were journalists, so that was our excuse. ...
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Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art

“I saw her as a righteous woman, a sister, an elder who didn’t crack” ...
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Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

In 1947 the Catechetical Guild Educational Society in St. Paul, Minnesota put out this warning ...
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The Last Days of Soviet Moscow (1986 – 87)

The Last Days of Soviet Moscow (1986 – 87)

Photos by Roger George Clark In the mid 1980s the English photographer Roger George Clark ...
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