Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 52mMaría Vázquez Blanco, a Spanish republican and resistance fighter, in Rouen, France, following the city's liberation, around August 1944. #Rouen #France #Resistance #FrenchResistance #Spain #Spanish #Republican #MaríaVázquezBlanco 011
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 55m"The Miners Madonna" by Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Viktor Nikiforovich Zhuravlev, USSR, 1990. Heavily inspired by the massive miners strikes which took place in the Donbass in 1989. #Madonna #MinersMadonna #Donbass #Miners #Paiting #Painter #Art #Artist 020
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 57mThe Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great), Kirov-class battlecruiser, officially designated in Russia as a Project 1144 Orlan heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser. 🇷🇺 #Russia #RussianFederation #Kirov #Orlan #PeterTheGreat #Nuclear #Cruiser 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 59m"Let's defend our Moscow home!" #SovietPoster #Moscow #BattleofMoscow #USSR #SovietUnion #RedArmy #SovietRedArmy #Victory #Liberation 100
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1hZinaida Ivanovna Smirnova / Зинаида Ивановна Смирнова was born 4th October 1923. #ZinaidaSmirnova #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Medic #USSR #SovietUnion 101
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 1hSemyon Budyonny, one of the most prominent military commanders of the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later a Marshal of the Soviet Union. 1935-40. #Budyonny #SovietMarshal #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #CivilWar #USSR #SovietUnion 001
Reposted by Andrew NorthallGerman at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 03/10/20263 October 1989: stamps issued in East Germany to mark 40 years of the GDR. But exactly one year later... (1/2) 1133
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The "Gedenkstele" (Memorial Stele), in the Neuer Lustgarten park, next to the Mercure Hotel Potsdam City and behind the Restaurant El Puerto. #Gedenkstele #MemorialStele #NeuerLustgarten #Potsdam #Germany #GDR #DDR #Socialism 120
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Moscow Botanical Garden named after Tsitsin, 1st October 2025 #Moscow #Russia #Tsitsin #Botanical #Garden #BotanicalGarden 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Chinese poster (1964) celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China. #China #PeoplesRepublicofChina #Mao #MaoZedong #Communists 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Trade Union Hall (Dom Sindikata) decorated for the 9th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Marx and Engels Square, Belgrade, Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, 1969. #Tito #Yugoslavia #Belgrade #Communist #Communists #CommunistParty #TradeUnions 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy camps, we harass; when the enemy tires, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue." - Mao Zedong, Selected Military Writings, 5 January 1930. #Mao #MaoZedong #China #CCP #Communist #Communists #CommunistParty 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our front page from October 5 1936: Mosley did not pass: East London routs the fascists Don't miss this weekend's special edition marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe @mstaronline.bsky.social 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026«And when France began to count its heroes and martyrs, it discovered with surprise that most of them were communists.» French communist-poet Louis Aragon was born 129 years ago on 3 October 1897. #PCF #LouisAragon #Poet #Communist #France #French 010
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Carpet featuring a portrait of V.I. Lenin, 1944. Turkmen SSR. A gift from the working people of the Turkmen SSR to the working people of the town of Yelnya (Smolensk Region). 111123
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Georgy Zhukov on the cover of the American magazine "Time", December 1942. 16011
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The headquarters of the French Communist Party (PCF) / PCF - Parti Communiste Français at Place Kossuth (44 rue Le Peletier) in Paris, decorated in 1952 for the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. #FrenchCommunistParty #Paris #France #CPSU #USSR 130
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Eating McDonalds in front of the Dom Sindikata (Trade Union Hall), Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1988 #McDonalds #Belgrade #Yugoslavia #TradeUnions 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Agricultural worker and soldier oil painting in the Peasants Room 1940s to 50s in the House of Terror Museum, Budapest, Hungary. #Hungary #Budapest #PeoplesDemocracy #Socialism #HouseofTerrorMuseum 011
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov 1948. Suslov was appointed Senior Secretary to the Central Committee for Ideology, following the death of Andrei Zhdanov in August 1948, a position he held until his own death in 1982. #MikhailSuslov #Suslov #USSR #SovietUnion #Zhdanov 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026President Edvard Beneš addressing the Czechoslovak public during a government rally at Prague's Old Town Square on 16 May 1945. #EdvardBeneš #Prague #Czechoslovakia #USSR #SovietUnion #SovietRedArmy #RedArmy #Victory #Liberation 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 3rd National Congress of the Vietnam Workers' Party took place in Hanoi from 5 to 10 September 1960. 🇻🇳 #Vietnam #HoChiMinh #CommunistParty #WorkersParty #Hanoi 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"To the Winner in the All-Union Socialist Competition". "Working people of the Soviet Union! Expand on a broader scale the socialist competition for the early fulfilment of the Five-Year Plan!" Soviet poster issued by the Council of Ministers of the USSR. 1949. #USSR #SovietUnion #FiveYearPlan 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" medal. #USSR #SovietUnion #War #WW2 #Victory #Liberation #Germany #Stalin 010
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Leningrad Hotel in Makhachkala, Dagestan ASSR, 1981 0336
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mother and Child Sanatorium in Bukhara. USSR, 1935. Photo by Max Penson. 0304
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mid to late 1980s. Moscow. USSR. #USSR #SovietUnion #Glasnost #Perestroika #Moscow 032
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mass meeting held by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) at Westminster Central Hall in London, campaigning for the lifting of the ban on The Daily Worker (today The Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social). #TheDailyWorker #MorningStar #CPGB #CommunistParty #WW2 #WW2 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"The producer co-operative is the way to a generous harvest and prosperity!" 1952. "Kossuth Cooperative Farms Plan for 1951-52". Hungarian Peoples Republic. #Hungary #Hungarian #Socialism #Agriculture #Kossuth #Cooperative #Farms #Food 011
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yugoslavian communist partisans. 1944. #Yugoslavia #Communist #Communists #Partisans 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Klement Gottwald - Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Premier of Czechoslovakia - delivers the funeral oration for Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, Prague, 15th March 1948. #KlementGottwald #JanMasaryk #Prague #Czechoslovakia #Suicide #Defenestration #CommunistParty 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026María Victoria "Vicki" Walsh, a prominent Argentine journalist and political militant, was killed aged 26 on 29th September 1976, during Argentina's military dictatorship. #MaríaVictoriaWalsh #Argentina #MilitaryDictatorship 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Soviet army medic in Afghanistan during the Soviet internationalist deployment there. 1979-89. #Afghanistan #Afghan #USSR #SovietUnion #Medic #Nurse 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Letter in the Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social #Morningstar #MMT 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Led by Stalin, under the leadership of the glorious Bolshevik commanders..." "Forward – to the complete destruction of the enemy!" 1942 Soviet poster #USSR #SovietUnion #Stalin #SovietPoster #Marshals 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Дети Сталинграда / Children of Stalingrad. 1942 Original image by the prominent Soviet military photojournalist Yakov Ryumki #Children #Stalingrad #War #USSR #SovietUnion 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Soviet T-54 tank on display in the House of Terror Museum. Budapest. Hungary. It is not known if this specific one took part in the events of October/November 1956. #Budapest #Hungary #HouseofTerror #Hungary1956 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and and Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito dance with locals in Cetinje, Montenegro, Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. 1963. #Khrushchev #Tito #Yugoslavia #Montenegro #USSR #SovietUnion 000
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946). #AvaGardner #TheKillers #Films #FilmActress 000
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Soviet artist Dmitry Nalbandyan in his studio. USSR, 1979. 0353
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Cuba", soviet poster, 1968 09220
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 30/09/2026V.M. Molotov, I.V. Stalin, and M.M. Litvinov on Red Square. Moscow, 1936 0318
Reposted by Andrew NorthallSharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who pays? It can't be workers and the working class. There's nothing left to give. Going after pensioners is not the way to do it. We need to look at billionaires and excessive wealth in our country. 0276
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nikolai Ryzhkov was born 28 September 1920. He was elected chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers (head of the Soviet Government) in September 1985, a post he held until January 1991. #Ryzhkov #NikolaiRyzhkov #USSR #SovietUnion 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mikhail Gorbachev and Mikhail Suslov at Stavropol's 200th anniversary celebrations, USSR, 1978 #USSR #SovietUnion #Gorbachev #Suslov #Stavropol 010
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Amateur athletes at the Soviet sports tournament - the Spartakiad. Moscow. USSR. 1951. #USSR #SovietUnion #Spartakiad #Moscow 031
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Farewell ceremony for Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers Party between 1956 to 1970, 15th September 1982. #WładysławGomułka #Gomulka #Poland #PUWP #CommunistParty #Socialism #Communism 011
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Vasily Stalin (sitting in a chair) with his military pilot friends. USSR, photographed between December 1941 and February 1942. 0408
Andrew Northall @andrewnorthall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Honoured Artist of the RSFSR, the celebrated Soviet, Russian, and Kazakh actress Natalya Arinbasarova was born 80 years ago, 24 September 1946. #NatalyaArinbasarova #TheFirstTeacher #Actress #Soviet #Russian #Kazakh #Films 100
Reposted by Andrew NorthallUSSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Fishermen of the Baltic", Painting by Nikolai Lomakin, 1975 0374
