Soviet Union: 10 emblematic images of the USSR 30 years after its fall

This article was published on the occasion of 25 anniversary of the fall of the USSR and now republished by the 30 years.

The huge and powerful Union of Socialist Republics Soviet s (USSR) d defined much of the history of the 20th century and has left images memorable .

TO 30 years of its dissolution on, that this 26 December, BBC Mundo te m Show some photos emblem Attics of that era .

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The authors of the “Bibilia” of the Uni or n Sovi ethics. In 1848 German philosophers Frederick Engels and Karl Marx published “The Communist Manifesto”, a key pamphlet that would inspire the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 in Russia and then to the powerful USSR.

An image unique by Vladimir Lenin . The leader of the Bolshevik revolution, who would later become the first president of the Soviet Union, gives a speech to members of the Red Army in 1919.

The famous parades on Red Square. From 1919 the wide esplanade in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, has been the showcase of military power Soviet and Russian to this day. Here, a parade of 1965 in which new missiles are displayed.

A new world order. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (right) together to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the famous Yalta Conference in 1919. There the three great victorious powers of the Second World War divided control of the European territories. Many historians consider that moment as the beginning of the Fr War í to.

The hero sovi ethical of the conquest of space . This photo was autographed by Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human being to reach Earth’s orbit. Gagarin was a global star.

Allies in the Fr War í a. Cuban leader Fidel Castro with his Soviet counterpart Nikita Kruschev in May 1963. The photo of the two smiling was taken during an official Castro visit to Moscow that lasted … four weeks.

“ Ich bin ein Berliner ”. In 1963 US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy visited the area West of a divided Berlin. There, in full confrontation with the Soviet Union, he made a famous speech in which he said in German: “I am a Berliner.” It was a message of support for the West German government after East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.

The cari year of the leaders. This iconic image of 1979 shows a very intimate encounter between the leaders of East Germany, Erich Honecker, and of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev. The so-called “socialist brotherly kiss” consisted of a hug combined with a series of three kisses alternating cheeks. The kisses were given in the mouth on rare occasions, when the two leaders were considered very close.

Despair on the Iron Curtain. A girl from East Germany tries to carve a hole in the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the East-West confrontation and the scar that opened the Cold War. The wall fell in 1989.

The agon day of the USSR. In this photo from August 1991, four months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is seen hand in hand with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev had just suffered a coup attempt, driven by hard sectors of the Communist Party that opposed his reforms of democratization and liberalization of the economy. Yeltsin backed the Soviet president amid massive demonstrations demanding his continuity. But the USSR was already sentenced.

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