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

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

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

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

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

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

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