Michael Laxer
Castro on the counter-revolution in the USSR
"I might say that communism destroyed itself, that it committed suicide in the USSR, and that it had no reason for committing suicide. It...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #776
Fidel Castro speaks in front of the Presidential Palace, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #776
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20221 min read
Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack
Today is the anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953 by a band of Cuban rebels...
Michael Laxer
Jul 18, 20223 min read
Nelson Mandela b. July 18, 1918
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918) one of history's greatest freedom fighters and heroes. Mandela,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 11, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #752
Comrades Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev enjoying a light moment -- Daily LIFT #752
Michael Laxer
Jun 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #741
Fidel Castro, June 1977 -- Daily LIFT #741
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #739
Jackie Robinson meets Fidel Castro, New York, April 1959 -- Daily LIFT #739
Michael Laxer
Jun 20, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #737
Fidel Castro feed peanuts to the elephants at the Bronx Zoo, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #737
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #723
Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
Michael Laxer
May 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #719
Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, Havana, May 1960 -- Daily LIFT #719 Castro is holding trophies for wins in an annual fishing...
Michael Laxer
May 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #708
Comrades Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in discussion -- Daily LIFT #708
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20221 min read
Huge crowds in Havana rally for IWD under the slogan Cuba Vive y Trabaja
For the first time in three years a mass rally was held in Havana to celebrate International Workers' Day. Under the slogan Cuba Vive y...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #689
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro meet, Havana 1961 -- Daily LIFT #689
Michael Laxer
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #685
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Red Square, Moscow USSR, May Day 1963 -- Daily LIFT #685
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read
Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #655
Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #655
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #644
Fidel Castro visits the Murmansk fish factory, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #644
Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #632
Fidel Castro visits Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad) during the construction of the Motherland Calls memorial complex, USSR 1963...
Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT#599
Fidel Castro speaks at a reception during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam held by the Workers' Party of Vietnam,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #597
Fidel Castro greets North Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng during his visit to the South Vietnam liberated area, September 1973 --...
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