Ruins of Zhizdra (town in Kaluga oblast of Russia). The cat’s ear was shot through with a bullet, 1943 (photo by Mikhail Savin)

'Meeting Lenin', painting by A. Sengetsokhio, Mongolia, 1967

Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka after landing, 1960

'Defender of the Motherland', painting by Alexander Laktionov, 1948

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Ernesto Che Guevara at the session of the Society 'Soviet-Cuban Friendship', 1964 (photo by Vladimir Musaelyan)

'We will go the other way' (Lenin with his mother after the execution of his brother Alexander in 1887), painting by Pyotr Belousov, 1951

Grandfathers Frost reading 'Komsomolskaya Pravda' newspaper, 1967 (photo by Viktor Budan)

Girls play xylophone in a Moscow kindergarten, 1960 (photo by Carl Mydans)

Soviet heavy metal band 'Udar' in 1987

'The sky of the motherland is safely protected', soviet poster from 1984

Soviet scientist Yuri Knorozov and his cat Aspid

May Day parade in Moscow. Participants carry the portrait of Mikhail Suslov - chief ideologist of the Soviet Union, 1964

'Long Live Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship!' soviet poster from 1958

'Everything for the Front. Everything for Victory', soviet poster from 1942

A couple walking in Moscow, 1971

May Day parade with placards reading 'Vietnam will triumph!' and 'Out of Vietnam, Aggressor!', 1970

“Computing Center”, Leningrad, 1970s (photo by Vladimir Lagrange)

Ivan Petrovich Kartasho, locksmith of the plant 'Economizer' and laureate of the Stalin Prize, 1953 (photo by Semyon Friedland)

'Glory to Daughters of the Motherland!', soviet poster from 1967