In the USSR, most men have completed compulsory military service. On the streets of Soviet cities, a person wearing military uniform was a natural part of the cityscape.
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"23rd February 1919. Red Army is the Defender of Proletarian Revolution!" Soviet poster
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Soviet military officer, Moscow, 1980
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Abandoned Soviet army garrison in Vladimir region, Russia, 2010s
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Soviet signal soldier Natalia Dorosh, Byelorussian SSR, 1973
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"Soldier, keep your eyes open. The enemy is angry like a beast" Soviet poster, 1986
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Officers of the Soviet Army in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Photo by Ladislav Bielik, August 1968
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"Red Army men with a prostitute" painting by Ivan Vladimirov, Soviet Russia, 1920s
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Soviet border guards, 1970s
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Soviet partisan girl. Photo by Arkady Shaikhet, USSR, 1942
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Still from "Kalashnikov AK 47" Russian film directed by Konstantin Buslov, 2019
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"Higher and higher!" Soviet poster, 1957
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Soviet officer in Afghanistan, 1984
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“Portrait of radio technician sergeant A. Zhukov” by Valery Kononov,1970s
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Military parade on the Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1962
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"Our army is an army of liberation of workers. - J.Stalin" Soviet poster, 1939
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K-222 Project 661 Anchar Soviet Navy's nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, 1970s
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"Modern Soviet Army" poster, 1972
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"Soldier", 1973. Photo by Vladimir Vyatkin, USSR
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"Soviet pilots are sentries of the peaceful sky" poster, 1986
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Soviet Navy exercise. Photo by Valentin Khukhlaev, 1965