USSR aid to socialist countries (1944-1949)

Residents of Sofia greeting Soviet troops in September 1944. Red Army units marching through the streets of Sofia.

Bulgarian partisans entering liberated cities.

The population of Sofia greeting Soviet soldiers.

View of a mass rally (top).

Burning portraits of Hitler and Nazi banners in the streets.

Residents of Korea greeting Soviet liberator soldiers in August 1945, faces of Koreans.

Entry of units of the People's Liberation Army of China into the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Faces of Chinese soldiers marching in formation.

Residents of Beijing greeting the entering revolutionary troops.

Hungarian peasants in national costumes going to divide the landowners' land.

Residents of Warsaw clearing rubble and ruins of buildings.

Reconstruction of one of the bridges across the Danube in Budapest.

Mechanics and welders rebuilding the bridge trusses.

Reconstruction of destroyed houses.

Panorama of clay peasant houses (top).

People carrying things out of their houses.

A family in the back of a truck moving to a new home.

Construction of a giant dam in China.

Construction of a railway to Hungary.

Unloading the Soviet ship "Kuban" in a port in an Eastern European country.

The name of the ship on board.

Unloading a combine harvester using a port crane.

Labeling of products manufactured in Kharkov on containers.

Transportation of an unloaded combine harvester along the pier.

Faces of workers.

Chairperson of the Central Committee of the Union of Democratic Women of Korea Pak Den Ai speaks to female workers.

Zhu De and his entourage walk through the territory of an industrial enterprise in China.

Zhu De shakes hands with some of the workers.

Workers who are members of the Social Democratic and Communist Parties of Germany shake hands.

The emblem of the unification congress of the KKE and SPD. Visitors to a cafe in Bucharest whisper at a table.

Distribution of opposition leaflets on the street.

People read newspapers as they walk.

Bucharest riots in 1945, caused by former members of the Iron Guard.

Arrest of troublemakers.

People run for cover, an ambulance drives down the street.

A burning truck in a square during the riots.

Funeral of the victims of the Iron Guard rebellion in Bucharest.

A funeral procession moves through the streets of Bucharest, people carry wooden grave crosses and wreaths.

A rally in a square in Sofia during the Bulgarian Republican Referendum on September 8, 1946. People hand in completed ballots.

Residents of Sofia and Bulgarian cities go to the polling stations.

Women put ballots in the ballot box.

Counting of ballots at one of the polling stations.

Bulgarian peasants in national costumes during a sign on the occasion of the establishment of the People's Republic.

View of a peasant demonstration in honor of the republic (above).

Mao Zedong walks accompanied by Zhu De.

Beijing residents rejoice in Tiananmen Square on the occasion of the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. Mao Zedong on the platform.

Faces of jubilant Chinese.

View of part of the ceremonial rally in Tiananmen Square.