About Eastblockworld.com
Eastblockworld.com was founded 2011 as a stock photo agency with an exclusive image library "complete collection of Eastern Bloc". The Archive contains pictures of all former Eastern Bloc States with highlights GDR + USSR.
Every day new pictures are submitted to the database. If you don't find your image online, then your image suggestion is probably still in the digitization, but it will be made available immediately upon request. The physical picture Stock Eastblockworld.com contains around one million pictures. We ask for understanding that the whole digitalization will still take some time to.
Main Topics:
Anniversaries, people, events and locations
Frederic the Great, Karl May, Siegmund Jaehn, Valentina Tereschkowa, Leonid Breschnew, Spy Swap on Glienicker Bridge, Make Peace without weapons, Glasnost, Perestroika...
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| The soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Jury Gagarin with all their Orders | Frederick the Great Painting by Johann Georg Ziesenis 1763 |
Contemporary history
Michail Gorbatschow, Erich und Margot Honecker, Fidel Castro, Lech Walesa, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Helmut Kohl...
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Muammar al Gaddafi took to leave Erich Honecker at the airport at Tripolis, Lybia in 1979. |
Washington Summit - US President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev checking their watches while waiting for their wives in the White House Diplomatic Reception room. |
former eastern bloc states: GDR, USSR, Poland and other
Politics, Protest, Astronautics, Military, Sport, Industry, Culture, Museums, Landscape, Cities, People, East-West-Encounters, Stasi, KGB…
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| Closing event at evangelical church congress in east Berlin at 06/28/1987. | Pierre Brice gives autographs in Indian Museum of the Karl May Foundation in Radebeul in front of Villa "Baerenfell" (bear skin) 1988. |





