Celebrations during a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang on July 27, 2023

"Glory to the Red Army, which defeated two hotbeds of world fascism and world aggression - Germany in the West and Japan in the East!". Demonstration by Russian émigrés in Harbin, China, 1945.

Elderly Vietnamese women do their morning exercises under a giant statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the center of Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010s. Photo by Richard Vogel

"Red Detachment Of Women", Chinese ballet, 1971

General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister of Afghanistan Nur Muhammad Taraki during a meeting at Vnukovo airport in 1978, shortly after the Saur Revolution

A delegation of Turkish communists visits a school during their visit to the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, 1988

"The Leader" is a 2019 Chinese anime-influenced animated web series based on the life of German philosopher Karl Marx. Left to Right: Jenny von Westphalen, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels.

Officers of the Polish People's Army at the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. From left to right: Marian Spychalski (1906-1980); Michał Rola-Żymierski (1889-1990); Aleksander Zawadzki (1899-1964).

"Defend the independence of Angola!", Soviet Poster, 1981

A gift to Stalin on his 70th birthday from students of the women's school in Qingdao.

Czechoslovakian family, 1979

“Female Partisan in Battle” mural in the National Historical Museum in Tirana from 1980s

"40 years of Soviet power", Polish poster, 1957

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro lights a cigarette for General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev during negotiations. January 29, 1974.

Sztálinváros in Hungary, 1959. The city was renamed Dunaújváros in 1961.

Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan choosing a gift for Stalin's 70th Birthday, Mongolia, 1949

This 1912 poster by Mihály Bíró uses the fist as a symbol of the collective power of the massed workers from whom it rises.

A banknote issued by Chinese Soviet Republic National Bank (1934)

10th anniversary of the GDR with Walter Ulbricht among others (1959)

"Love Science, Learn Science, Use Science." - Chinese Poster, 1980