Soviet plunder
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During and after World War II, large-scale looting and seizure of cultural, industrial, and personal property took place in areas of Central and Eastern Europe at the hands of the Soviet armed forces.
Portrait of Gregory Cromwell, c. 1535–40, Hans Holbein the Younger. Initially looted from the Danzig Museum by the Nazis, it was later seized by the Soviets and is currently in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
A 2021 Russian stamp sheet featuring a 1934 self-portrait of Grabar and his paintings
A Changchun battery and plumbing shop looted by Soviet troops in 1946
Manchuria Sumitomo Metal Industry in Anshan, China, looted by USSR Army in 1946
Soviet war crimes
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From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or its constituent Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Rep
Katyn massacre 1943 exhumation
Victims of a Soviet-perpetrated massacre in Yerevan, Armenia during the suppression of the February Uprising of 1921
Soviet invasion of Poland, 1939. Advance of the Red Army troops.
Victims of a NKVD prisoner massacre in Lwów in occupied Poland in June 1941