Matryoshka dolls for sale in Izmaylovsky Bazaar, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia, Europe

Government House (Dom Soviet), Baku, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Asia

A Soviet Union flag above the Malecon, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Monument to Soviet underground partisans, now banished since 1991 to a park near Vilnius, Grutas Park, Lithuania, Europe

A man dressed up as a soviet army soldier poses in front of the Brandenburger Tor, Berlin

Lenin with Soviet flag, graffiti, Merida, Venezuela, South America

A man dressed up as a soviet army soldier poses in front of the Brandenburger Tor, Berlin

Soviet soldier with weapon and flag, Monument to the soldiers of the Red Army who died in the Second World War, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

City administration with national flag, built in classic soviet architectural style City Osh in the Fergana Valley close to the border to Uzbekistan. Asia, central Asia, Kyrgyzstan