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a blog dedicated to communism and the people, writings and art associated with it.

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Nikita Khrushchev with Nikolai Podgorny holding a teddy bear which was a farewell gift from the workers of Werk für Fernsehelektronik Berlin, in January 1963. 

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Vladimir Lenin speaking, c. 1918

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Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the U.N., c. 1960

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Happy Birthday Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926)

The most honest, courageous politician I have ever met  -Jesse Jackson

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The People's World!, a Soviet propaganda poster

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Glory to Soviet science! a Soviet propaganda poster c. 1970s.

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Nikita Khrushchev at a meeting of the UN General Assembly in September 1960.

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Communist troops take over Beijing, February 1949

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Young Pioneers lay wreaths outside Lenin's mausoleum, c. 1981

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The Russia of NEP will become socialist Russia; a  Soviet propaganda poster c.1921

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Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov share a joke, c. 1935

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Fidel Castro c.1985

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Lenin at the Tribute by Aleksandr Gerasimov, c. 1929

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We want the world socialist system to be a well-knit family of nations, building and defending the new society together, and mutually enriching each other with experience and knowledge, a family, strong and united, which the people of the world would regard as the prototype of the future world community of free nations.

Leonid Brezhnev, 1973

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Leonid Brezhnev at the Helsinki Conference, 1975

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Nikita Khrushchev, c. 1943