Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the Baltic Republics and Moldova (1941)

An election poster on the wall of a building in Kaunas during the by-elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on January 12, 1941. View of the main street of Kaunas, a red flag above one of the buildings (top).

A bus drives along the city street.

Portraits of V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin above the entrance to one of the polling stations.

An election slogan above the checkpoint of a factory.

An election poster.

City residents go to vote in an organized column, with a brass band in front.

At the head of the column is a portrait of Stalin with a girl in his arms, people carry red banners and banners with slogans.

Faces of people passing by.

A column of voters approaches polling station #23, a portrait of Stalin above the entrance.

Receiving ballots.

Voting at a polling station.

Voters receive ballots.

People take turns dropping ballots into the ballot box.

Members of the electoral commission at work.

Faces of girls.

Voting at one of the polling stations of the Lithuanian SSR. Election poster and entrance to polling station #47/21 in Riga.

Banners with election slogans on the wall of one of the buildings.

Residents of Riga enter the doors of the polling station.

Handing over ballots to citizens.

People enter the voting booths.

Voters put ballots in the ballot boxes.

The wall clock shows 18:00. Members of the electoral commission handing over ballots to citizens.

Portraits of Stalin, Marx and Engels on the wall of the polling station.

Voting at one of the polling stations.

People dance in the street in front of one of the polling stations.

View of part of the square near the Church of St.

Nicholas (Niguliste) in Tallinn.

Portraits of the leaders of the USSR and posters with slogans on the streets and squares of Tallinn.

An election poster above the entrance to one of the polling stations in Tallinn.

Entrance to polling station No. 68. Interior view of the polling station (panorama).

Voters being given ballots.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR Johannes Barbarus votes at a polling station.

People cast ballots into the ballot box.

A tram with election slogans passes along Chisinau Street on January 12, 1941. Residents of Chisinau stand by a stand with portraits of candidates from the Communist Bloc.

People go to the polling station.

Citizens being given ballots.

People enter the voting booths.

Casting ballots into the ballot boxes.

Residents of Chisinau in national costumes dance by the tram stop.