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A 1939 photograph of Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the USSR, and Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), German foreign minister, during negotiations of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares, a bronze sculpture by Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich, presented to the United Nations on 4 December 1959. Garden of the United Nations Headquarters, New York.

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, a lithograph propaganda poster by Soviet artist El Lissitzky, 1920. In the poster, the red triangle represents the Bolsheviks and the Red Army penetrating and defeating the White movement, their opposition...

The abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

The ruins of the ancient Metsamor Fortress lie to the southwest of Taronik, Armenia. The area was populated from the 5th millennium BC until roughly 1700 CE. The site consists of a series of complexes, sanctuaries, and an observatory. Excavations...

A 1938 photograph of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), Nazi German foreign minister, who negotiated the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. (German Federal Archives)

The ruins of the ancient Metsamor Fortress lie to the southwest of Taronik, Armenia. The area was populated from the 5th millennium BC until roughly 1700 CE. The site is currently being explored and excavated by a joint Polish-Armenian research...

A photograph showing Soviet Red Army troops on skis at the entrance of the Hermitage Museum. Taken during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) from September 1941 to January 1944 during the Second World War (1939-45)

A 1945 photograph of Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986), the People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the USSR and negotiator of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. (Netherlands National Archives)

The ruins of the ancient Metsamor Fortress lie to the southwest of Taronik, Armenia. The area was populated from the 5th millennium BC until roughly 1700 CE. The site is currently being explored and excavated by a joint Polish-Armenian research...