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Michael Laxer
3 days ago1 min read
Daily LIFT #1521
The magnificent Karl Marx Monument in the center of Karl-Marx-Stadt with youth from the 5th Festival of German-Soviet Friendship, 1980,...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 251 min read
Daily LIFT #1502
Fidel Castro, presents Erich Honecker with a map of the Republic of Cuba during a visit to the German Democratic Republic. He was showing...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1435
Ho Chi Minh in Dresden, German Democratic Republic, July 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1435 He was with Vietnamese children who had found a new...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 301 min read
Daily LIFT #1433
Erich Honecker with Angela Davis -- Daily LIFT #1433 General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic,...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 231 min read
Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 221 min read
Daily LIFT #1427
Unveiling of the monument to Friedrich Engels in the inner courtyard of the Friedrich Engels Military Academy of the German Democratic...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 41 min read
Daily LIFT #1364
Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1364
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Michael Laxer
Apr 301 min read
Daily LIFT #1332
Stamp in honour of the 7th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party, German Democratic Republic, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1332 From the Great...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 292 min read
Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 171 min read
Daily LIFT #1221
International Women's Year, 3-panel design for a stamp and posters celebrating the event, German Democratic Republic 1975 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 151 min read
Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
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Michael Laxer
Feb 231 min read
Daily LIFT #1178
International Marxist study group, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1178
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Michael Laxer
Feb 211 min read
Daily LIFT #1176
Rosa Luxemburg Memorial Stamp, German Democratic Republic 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1176
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Michael Laxer
Oct 7, 202314 min read
Erich Honecker on the formation of the GDR, October 7, 1949
October 7 marks the anniversary of the formation of German Democratic Republic in 1949. Having come into being as a result of the Second...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1032
Disarmament!, poster G. Voigt, German Democratic Republic 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1032 This poster from the GDR won first prize at the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1017
The Chinese Delegation at the Third World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace, Berlin, German Democratic Republic 1951 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 9, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #978
To the Victims of Fascism, painting Hans Grundig, German Democratic Republic 1948 -- Daily LIFT #978 The painting was done by Grundig as...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37 A GDR stamp for the Day of the Stamp. The image is of a "modern" postal worker on a...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36 Stamp in honour of a massive youth festival and meeting held over 3 days in Berlin,...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
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