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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
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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
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Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #763
Mao and Khrushchev in Beijing, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #763
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Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #734
Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...
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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...
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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...
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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
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Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #668
Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev embrace in Moscow days after Gagarin's historic flight into space -- Daily LIFT #668 Gagarin...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20225 min read
Yuri Gagarin in his own words
. Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina Ivanovna and Nikita Khrushchev during a parade after his triumphant flight. In honour of the birth...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20229 min read
Soviet 1963: Memorable events
As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
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Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20219 min read
Soviet 1960: A year in the life of the USSR in pictures
1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #525
Castro lights a cigar during a meeting with Khrushchev under the watchful eye of Karl Marx during a trip to the USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Solidarity with revolutionary Cuba!
Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #494
Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Soong Ching-ling dine together, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #494
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Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #414
Khrushchev and Castro meet for the first time, New York, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #414 Khrushchev commented on how they "enclosed each other in...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #308
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev enjoy some Georgian wine, Georgian SSR, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #308
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