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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20247 min read
The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941
Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20242 min read
Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
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Michael Laxer
May 25, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1354
Lenin and others in Red Square for the military parade and speeches, May 25, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #1354
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Michael Laxer
May 17, 20242 min read
The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
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Michael Laxer
May 11, 20244 min read
"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 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 14, 20242 min read
CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR
"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1215
The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 29, 20241 min read
Red Army Victory! -- Stamps of the Red Army #7
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20245 min read
Sergei Kirov b. March 27, 1886
Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 202410 min read
She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20241 min read
To the West! -- Stamps of the Red Army #6
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the famous 1943 'To the West' war...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20243 min read
Oryol -- City of the First Fireworks
Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20241 min read
Red Army Liberator -- Stamps of the Red Army #5
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a part of the classic Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Bird Falls -- A Soviet War Poem
Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20241 min read
'Did You Volunteer', the Young Red Army marches -- Stamps of the Red Army #4
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the classic Red Revolutionary Civil...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20241 min read
Lenin Addressing Red Revolutionary Vsevobuch Troops in 1919 -- Stamps of the Red Army #3
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows Lenin addressing and rallying the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20241 min read
Victory at Stalingrad! -- Stamps of the Red Army #2
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20241 min read
Red Army liberates Vladivostok, October 1922 -- Stamps of the Red Army #1
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20242 min read
Brest: Hero Fortress of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
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