Days Gone By

Jun 2 2012
5:13 am

Red Guards at Vulkan factory, Russia, 1917.

Posted 1 year ago
#1910s #vintage #portrait #history #russia #russian revolution #USSR #red guards #communism #guns #arsenal #communist

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Jun 2 2012
4:37 am

Alberto Korda, Che Guevara fishing off the coast of Havana, 15 May 1960.

Source: Museo Che Guevara

Posted 1 year ago
#1960s #alberto korda #che guevara #communism #communist #cuba #fishing #havana #history #latin america #latin american history #marxim-leninism #marxist #portrait #revolutionary #vintage #cuban revolution

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May 30 2012
3:29 am

37-year-old Che Guevara, holding an African baby and standing with a fellow Cuban soldier during the Congo Crisis, 1965.

Source: Museo Che Guevara

Posted 1 year ago
#1960s #che guevara #revolutionary #communism #communist #congo crisis #congo #central africa #africa #cuba #latin america #caribbean #portrait #history

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May 29 2012
7:19 pm

A 22 year old Che Guevara in Argentina, 1951.

Source: Museo Che Guevara

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #argentina #che guevara #history #latin america #latin american history #portrait #revolutionary #south america #vintage #communist #communism

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May 29 2012
4:54 pm

Joseph Stalin’s mug shot, ca. 1911.

Posted 1 year ago
#1910s #russia #stalin #joseph stalin #vintage #portrait #mugshot #history #communism

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May 29 2012
4:13 pm

Joseph Stalin in his mid-twenties, ca. 1902.

Posted 1 year ago
#1900s #communism #communist #joseph stalin #russia #stalin #vintage #portrait #history

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May 3 2012
6:52 am

Luis Korda, Fidel Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos, Havana, Cuba, January 1959.

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #havana #cuba #latin america #caribbean #history #vintage #portrait #fidel castro #camilo cienfuegos #cuban revolution #luis korda #communism

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May 2 2012
10:51 pm

Leon Trotsky reading The Militant, 1931.

Posted 1 year ago
#USSR #communism #history #leon trotsky #portrait #reading #the militant #vintage #russia #1930s

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Feb 24 2012
3:46 am

An East German soldier at Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin border. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Berlin, Germany, October 1962.

Posted 1 year ago
#1960s #berlin #germany #east germany #cold war #checkpoint charlie #berlin wall #soldier #communism

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Jan 25 2012
2:07 pm

A man wearing a red hammer and sickle headdress, which identifies as a party supporter at a Communist party rally. Photograph by Howard Sochurek. Indonesia, September 1955.

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #indonesia #southeast asia #communism #communist party #marxism-leninism #hammer and sickle #headdress #political rally #portrait #history

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