In the Russian populated Narva, the city in Estonia near the border with Russia, Lenin has not been destroyed or vandalized like in many other Baltic cities, but only displaced. In the early 1990s from the central city square it moved to the nearby touristic Narva fortress, which makes it perhaps the best placed monument of Lenin in the Baltics.
1 September is the day when the school starts in Latvia and most East European countries. Pupils gather in the class but no lectures are held, instead they just meet the teacher as well as attend an official ceremony, such as director's speech in the main hall. In Soviet times pupils also had to visit the monument of Lenin and place red flowers. Today all flowers go to teachers only.
I found this strange abandoned motel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the border town Foča.
Stalin and Lenin can be found even in Tirana, Albania. But not in the best spot - the large monuments are hidden behind the National art gallery and most likely date back to early 1950s when Albania were friends with Soviet Union until Stalin's death. Besides - Lenin is missing a hand.
In Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, it is hard to find something that reminds of its former name - Titograd, unless you look at utility holes.
Bus stations in rural areas usually have a vintage look. The first photo depicts the station in Preiļi, while the map is from the station Dagda, both East Latvia.
I already posted photos of some shops in Latgale region of East Latvia. Here goes a few more. Usually they are called just "shops" (veikals) and not by some name because in most cases they don't need one as there is no competition - there is no other shop nearby. Also, most of them who haven't changed the place just kept the old time sign "veikals" for ages.
Moscow is full of Soviet time symbols, this is just a selection of few of them.
It is very rare to find a canteen sign in Russian language (stolovaya) in Latvia, but there is at least one near Malta, East Latvia. And it also seems that this place actually still operates on working days.
This is a typical Soviet time sign for shoes and hosiery shop, found in Aglona, Latvia.
There are not that many old style canteens (stolovayas) nowadays in Latvia, or even in Moscow. But at Moscow State university (MGU) one can find quite a few - most of them are located within the skyscraper, but this one is in a separate building.
I already posted the glory to labor mural and cinema Komjaunietis of Dagda earlier in June, but there are quite a few more interesting things to notice in this town - old signs for photo service, sewing accessories shop and department store, culture house with its mother-like ornament, another monument with a mother and child, gas station and a Soviet time social ad that says "here the defective stove was heated".
There's nothing much left from the Soviet times propaganda on the Peace avenue (Prospekt Mira) in Moscow - just a decoration with the name "peace" in four languages and a mosaic with Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of KGB.