East German border guards, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence, after the borders were opened according to the announcement by the GDR government, November 10, 1989 (photo by Lutz Schmidt)

Soviet cartoon published during the Falklands War (1982) showing Thatcher's hands placing a helmet labelled 'Colonialism' on the 'Falklands (Malvinas) Islands'.

Fidel Castro gives a speech in Odessa, during his visit to USSR, where he came to attend the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU), March 1981

Tea set "USSR", by artist L. V. Protopopova, 1967

Ernesto Che Guevara in a kindergarten in Shanghai during a state visit to the People's Republic of China in November 1960

Josip Hrvoje Peruzović better known by his ring name Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler from Yugoslavia (1980s)

May Day parade in Warsaw. In the background on the right is the PAST building (Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna). Polish People's Republic, 1977

'First lesson' — Soviet poster (1964) showing a black student having his path to school blocked by Klansmen. Artist: Kiril Georgiev.

Leonid Brezhnev greets Miloš Jakeš, the chairman of the Central Control and Revision Commission of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, May 1970

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and head of the GDR Erich Honecker at the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow, 1982

Angolan Air Force’s student in the Soviet Union in 1987

Soviet soldiers carry German pioneers (Jungpioniere) on their shoulders at a rally for the Friendship Festival in Leipzig (October 13, 1967)

"Vota Comunista". A Sputnik-style car used by the Italian Communist Party during the 1958 Italian general elections.

"Before the flight." Soviet and Polish aviators at a map of Warsaw, October 1944. Photo by Georgy Zelma.

Parade to the 750th anniversary of Berlin, GDR, 1987 (photo by Thomas Billhardt)

Young women shopping in a supermarket in Budapest, Hungary, 1969

"Always together", Poland-USSR friendship poster, 1980

Cubist statues of Marx and Engels in Budapest, Hungary, 1971

MiG-23 fighters from the 9th Fighter Squadron of the GDR Air Force during training flights, 1980s

Cuban students studying at the Kirov Kazakh State University (now the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University). Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, 1984 (photo by Yuri Kuidin)