USSR Pictures

"When Communists Dream", Painting by Walter Womak (GDR, 1975).

"Workers of the World, Unite!" - A portrait of Karl Marx, surrounded by verses from the Koran supporting the oppressed. Artist: Hassan Musa. Sudan, 2012.

Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине) is a philosophical science fiction novel by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was written in 1971 and published in 1972, and is their most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union.

The Senate Tower and Senate Palace of the Moscow Kremlin, the seat of the Soviet government. Moscow, USSR. 1972

Pyotr Sergeyevich Klypa (1926–1983) was a Soviet Pioneer hero who took part in the defense of the Brest Fortress during the Nazi invasion in 1941.

First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev and Finnish President Urho Kekkonen during a hunt on the territory of a hunting farm in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. 1963. Photo by Vasily Egorov

Ceremonial raising of the USSR Navy flag on the cruiser Aurora. USSR, Leningrad, 1977

"The USSR makes the desert bloom - The USA turns towns and villages into deserts", czechoslovak poster from 1951

"Our road is the road of labor. The road of truth. The road of freedom. This is the road of people's happiness." Soviet wooden panel inside the administrative building of a Soviet metallurgical plant in Krasnoyarsk, Russia

A tank crew with the unit’s favorite — a little fox named Trofeyka. Leningrad Front, 1944. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich. (colorized)

Institute of Blood Transfusion during the War. USSR, Moscow, 1943. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet

"A street scene in London", Soviet painting by Raisa Dmitrievna Zenkova

Romesh Chandra awards Leonid Brezhnev the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal of Peace, 1975. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin

In Leningrad. USSR, 1988. Photo by Igor Stomakhin

Schoolchildren joyfully run after classes. USSR, 1989.

A smiling traffic controller on Khreshchatyk. Ukrainian SSR, Kyiv, 1947. Photo by Robert Capa

Soviet soldiers in Cuba, 1989-1991

US President John F. Kennedy meets with First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Anastas Mikoyan in the Oval Office of the White House. Also pictured is US State Department translator Natalie Kushnir. Washington, November 29, 1962.

On Red Square in Moscow, June 1991. Photo by Vladimir Fedorenko

Soviet poster in Russian, Uzbek and Tajik languages "Blossom our friendship", 1989

David Bowie and Geoff MacCormack travelling the Transsiberian railroad, USSR, 1973

"Workers of all countries, unite!", Soviet Ukrainian poster, 1963

5th All-Union Pioneer Rally in the pioneer camp "Artek". Participants of the rally from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Ukrainian SSR, Crimea, 1972

Soviet poster "Glory to the great Russian poet Pushkin!", 1937

Hey, @ussrpictures.bsky.social, here's a post-Soviet picture of me with Mr. Lenin in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Soviet poster "Workers of all countries, unite!", 1963

It's just something I found online, but you're right.

Soviet soldiers in East Germany, c. 1961, colorized by AI

KGB Higher School — computer training. Moscow, USSR, 1990. Photo by Mike Goldwater

You’re right, but “Little” here means the original core homeland of the Rus, not something smaller or inferior.