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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A sign in Russian and German marking the end of the Soviet zone. The center of Vienna was shared collectively by the occupying forces, a bizarre arrangement made famous by a scene in the 1949 film The Third Man, which was written by Graham Greene.
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A Soviet soldier clinks flutes with a date during a party inside the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Habsburgs.
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The Austrian flag flutters alongside the hammer-and-sickle on a tram crossing a newly repaired bridge in central Vienna in 1946.
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Theodor Koerner, the mayor of Vienna and soon-to-be president of Austria, at the unveiling of a memorial to Soviet soldiers killed during the capture of Vienna.