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East Germany Celebrates Berlin’s 750th Birthday with a Parade of Portable Computers, Perms and Bikinis

On July 4 1987 East Germans celebrated the city in a divided Berlin ...

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Memorials To The Glorious Dead Inside The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Before the nuclear disaster Chernobyl remembered the fallen ...

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When Paris Burned: Dramatic Photographs of the 1968 Paris Uprisings

“I’ve never seen such violence in a western capital as I saw in Paris that month” - Bruno Barbey ...

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The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

In 1931 a revered Soviet patriot took a break from making grandiose statues of Lenin to create an erotic alphabet ...

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The Photo Series ‘Gypsies’ Documents the Lives of European Roma People in the Late 1960s and 70s

by the time photographer Josef Koudelka began photographing Roma communities across Europe in the late 1960s and 70s, “an ambitious drive to assimilate all Roma people into society had already begun, ...

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

Despite its "permanently revisionist stance in international affairs," the state had become moribund. The revolution was over. ...

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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

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

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

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

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

"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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