Mikhail Kalinin, communist leader and statesman who was the formal head of the Soviet state from 1919 until 1946, pictured here c. 1920s
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Demonstration in Šiauliai, Lithuania, 1989 - Baltic Way Meeting The coffins are decorated with national flags of the three Baltic states and are placed under Soviet and Nazi flags. The Baltic Way or Baltic Chain (also Chain of Freedom, Estonian: Balti kett, Latvian: Baltijas ceļš, Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias, Russian: Балтийский путь) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on August 23, 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning over 600 kilometres (370 mi) across the three Baltic states – Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Lithuanian SSR, republics of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet soldier feeding an owl during World War II
Anastas Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), in 1925
Last smile of soviet spy before execution by Finnish soldier, 1942
Victims of Soviet NKVD in Lviv, June 1941
Soviet Flag raised above the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945