Rarely seen photos in an Austrian archive capture moments from the decade that Josef Stalin's portrait loomed over the "
Soviet Vienna
Rarely seen photos in an Austrian archive capture moments from the decade that Josef Stalin's portrait loomed over the "City Of Music."
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Portraits of Lenin and Stalin, and the Soviet red star on the Palais Epstein in 1947. The building served as the Soviet headquarters during the occupation.
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Soviet soldiers inspect the aftermath of a group suicide in Vienna in 1945. The Red Army captured the heavily damaged city from the Nazis that spring. (Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS)
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin's portrait being wheeled through central Vienna in 1952. From the end of World War II up until mid-1955, Vienna was divided into zones of occupation by the victorious Allies.
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A Soviet soldier strolling central Vienna with a friend in 1946. Vienna's western suburbs were split into British, American, and French sections, while the Soviet Union held Vienna's east.