Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.
Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop
The National Theater housed the People's Parliament in 1940
Demonstration in Riga on 7 November 1940
Poster of the Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet Election on January 12, 1941
Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussia, Russian SFSR (RSFSR), Transcaucasian Federation, and Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Republics of the Soviet Union
Reverse of the 1-ruble note of the 1961 series, with the value in all the official languages of the Union Republics
A hall in Bishkek's Soviet-era Lenin Museum decorated with the flags of Soviet Republics
Poster of the unity of the Soviet republics in the late 1930s. All republics, except Russia, are shown with their respective traditional clothes.
