Domestic and foreign policy of the USSR (1961-1981)

Photograph of the writer A.I. Solzhenitsyn during his time in prison.

Solzhenitsyn in the forest preparing firewood, splitting logs with a cleaver.

Arrest of participants in street riots during the Berlin crisis of 1961. Rally on the square in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Search of detainees by the GDR People's Police.

Installation of a barbed wire fence in Berlin.

Construction of the Berlin Wall.

A service dog on a leash.

View of a section of the Berlin Wall.

Residents of East Berlin try to get to the Western sector through the fence, a woman falls out of a window.

Young people break through the barbed wire fence on the border of the GDR and the FRG. A wreath at the Berlin Wall in memory of a Berliner who tried to escape to the Western sector, light signals are given using a searchlight from the western side.

Delivery of food to blockaded West Berlin by seaplanes and boats.

Checking the documents of drivers at the border of the GDR and the FRG. A queue of trucks at the border.

A view of a section of the Berlin Wall.

American troops in the Western Sector of Berlin on alert.

American soldiers observe the Eastern Sector.

American tanks move along the streets of West Berlin.

US President John F. Kennedy meets with Foreign Minister A. A. Gromyko at the White House on October 18, 1962. Kennedy's face.

Aerial and satellite images of Soviet missiles deployed in Cuba.

Kennedy before a meeting with the military.

Kennedy signs documents at the table.

Kennedy's signature on one of the documents.

American warships on a mission.

Aircraft on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Aircraft taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Ships of the American fleet in the Atlantic Ocean (top), N. S. Khrushchev speaking from the podium. A. I. Mikoyan in the airplane cabin looking out the window.

Ships of the US fleet on a mission (top).

Mikoyan and Castro F. during a meeting in Cuba on November 2, 1962. Soviet ships in the Atlantic Ocean en route to Cuba.

Photograph of Khrushchev speaking in the Kremlin.

Khrushchev's speech from the rostrum of the 3rd Congress of Soviet Writers in May 1959 (synchronously and off-screen), congress delegates applaud Khrushchev, faces of the delegates.

View of the hall of the ceremonial banquet for delegates of the 3rd Congress of Soviet Writers.

Khrushchev delivers a speech during the banquet, Brezhnev L.I., Ignatov N.G. are sitting nearby.

Banquet participants listen to Khrushchev.

Visitors in one of the halls of the exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists in the Manege on December 1, 1962. Sculptor Konenkov S. talks to one of the guests.

Paintings presented at the exhibition, Khrushchev N.S. and Furtseva E.A. during a conversation with one of the artists.

Khrushchev during a visit to the exhibition.

Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny demonstrates his works.

Photograph of E. Neizvestny and Khrushchev at the exhibition.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, servicemen awarded orders and medals talk to each other in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses before the start of the ceremonial meeting on May 9, 1965, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Victory.

Brezhnev L.I. on the podium before the start of his speech.

Views and panorama of the hall and presidium of the meeting, Brezhnev delivers a speech (synchronously).

Participants in the meeting applaud during Brezhnev's speech.

Brezhnev L.I., Andropov Yu.V. descend the steps of the plane.

Brezhnev is met at the airport.

Photograph of Brezhnev during the war among political officers.

Newsreel of Shchelokov N.A., Shchelokov during a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Shchelokov congratulates the writer Sholokhov M.A. on receiving the Nobel Prize in 1965. People on the streets of Prague in 1968, during the "Prague Spring".

Distribution of newspapers and leaflets to participants in one of the rallies.

Meeting of Brezhnev and Dubcek at the train station, nearby is Podgorny N.V. Brezhnev giving an interview on the go.

Negotiations between Brezhnev and Dubcek.

Tanks on the streets of Prague.

Residents of Prague throw stones at Soviet military trucks.

A Soviet tanker surrounded by residents of Prague.

Gromyko A.A., Mazurov K.T., Andropov Yu.V., Ustinov D.F. in the Kremlin during the presentation of the badge of Marshal of the Soviet Union to Brezhnev on May 7, 1976. Brezhnev being presented with the Marshal's badge, with M.A. Suslov standing nearby.

Ustinov congratulates Brezhnev on being awarded the rank of Marshal of the USSR and presents him with shoulder straps.

Faces of the military.

Suslov delivers a congratulatory speech during the presentation of the Order of Victory to Brezhnev in February 1978 (synchronously), with A.N. Kosygin, A.Ya.

Pelshe, A.P. Kirilenko, and D.F. Ustinov standing behind him.

Suslov pins the order to Brezhnev's tunic.

Soviet tanks enter Afghanistan in December 1979. A column of Soviet military equipment moves along a road in Afghanistan (panorama, from above).

Servicemen wounded during the fighting in Afghanistan are carried out of an airplane on stretchers along the steps.

A wounded soldier descends the steps, the wounded are met at the airfield.

A soldier helps his comrade, who has lost a leg, descend the steps and walk.

Chairman of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Babrak Karmal delivers a speech in the Kremlin on the occasion of Brezhnev being awarded the Afghan Order of the Sun of Freedom in 1981. Ustinov, Andropov, Kirilenko, Gromyko during the award ceremony.

Brezhnev during the award ceremony.

Faces of Afghan diplomats (panorama).

Karmal pins the order on Brezhnev's lapel.

Brezhnev reads aloud the text of his response speech (synchronously).