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Michael Laxer
Jan 189 min read
900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad
The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20232 min read
Tula: Hero City 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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Michael Laxer
Dec 15, 20232 min read
KKE condemns shameful desecration of Sofia monument to Red Army liberators
In a disgraceful affront to the memory of the Red Army soldiers who died to liberate Bulgaria from Nazism and fascism in World War II --...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20232 min read
Kerch: Hero City 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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Michael Laxer
Sep 22, 20234 min read
Tallinn liberated by Red Army, September 22, 1944
The Estonian capital of Tallinn was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army on September 22, 1944. Among the Red Army heroes who...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20232 min read
Novorossiysk: Hero City of the USSR, liberated Sept. 16 1943
Malaya Zemlya Memorial From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 9, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1028
First International Communist Chinese Detachment, Revolutionary Civil War, Soviet Russia 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1028 Well before the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20231 min read
Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943: Video
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20232 min read
Sevastopol: Hero City of the USSR
Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 30, 202315 min read
Battle of Kursk remembered, July 1983
Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #985
A delegation of Soviet collective farmers delivering tanks manufactured using their donated money to Red Army soldiers in Moscow,...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 15, 20232 min read
Odessa: Hero City 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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Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20232 min read
Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 30, 202310 min read
Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20232 min read
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Omsk: A fragment of the memorial complex “Fighters who fell for Soviet power" 1971
Photo of part of a memorial complex in Omsk, USSR to those who gave their lives in the revolutionary civil war that led to consolidation...
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Michael Laxer
May 30, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
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Michael Laxer
May 19, 20232 min read
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
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Michael Laxer
May 9, 20237 min read
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
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Michael Laxer
May 9, 20235 min read
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
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