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Michael Laxer
Sep 271 min read
Daily LIFT #1454
Comrade Leonid Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar, giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942) -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Aug 291 min read
Daily LIFT #1432
Leonid Brezhnev lighting the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, USSR, May 8, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1432
Michael Laxer
Aug 281 min read
Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
Michael Laxer
Jan 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1133
Soviet graphic (stamp) for the 110th Anniversary of Lenin's birth in 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1133 Has a quote from Leonid Brezhnev that reads...
Michael Laxer
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #863
RUSSIANS, UKRAINIANS, ARMENIANS, ESTONIANS, UZBEKS, KAZAKHS...MORE THAN 100 NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES BUT ONE UNION --The unity of the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #835
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and sculptor Lev Kerbel among others at the Karl Marx statue in Moscow, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #835
Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #803
Brezhnev, Castro and Lenin -- Daily LIFT #803
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 1, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #723
Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20228 min read
Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963
The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...
Michael Laxer
Apr 14, 20228 min read
Soviet Tashkent in photos and text, 1973 & 1980
With 18 photographs of the capital of the Uzbek SSR Today we are going to take a look at Soviet Tashkent through 18 postcard photos as...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20222 min read
First Flight: Gagarin goes into space April 12, 1961
Soviet photos, statements and accounts of the historic launch and the days that followed. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #655
Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #655
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #645
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow 1975 -- Daily LIFT #645
Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
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