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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War Two - February 2, 1943
On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 202313 min read
Red Review #83 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, Swaziland, Peru, Australia, India, Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. There is also a section related to news from the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #871
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20232 min read
Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20223 min read
Bryansk liberated by Red Army, Sept. 17 1943
Monument of Glory to the Soldiers and Partisans - Liberators of Bryansk, USSR 1973 On September 17, 1943 the forces of the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Happy Bastille Day!
Happy Bastille Day! Coming again soon to a country near you.
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Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Minsk liberated, July 3, 1944
Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #690
Red Army soldier atop the City Hall after Vienna was liberated, April 13, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #690 You can learn more about the liberation...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20228 min read
Red Army Day, 1944
Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #641
Tanks of the column " For Soviet Estonia", February 1944 -- Daily LIFT #641 Built with funds collected by evacuated Estonian citizens,...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 29, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #636
Soviet guerilla commanders plan operations behind the lines, January 1944 -- Daily LIFT #636 The commanders of the guerilla unit, all...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #634
A woman embraces a soldier with joy on the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted, January 27, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #634 On January 27, 1944...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #628
Red Army liberates the Polish city of Lodz, January 19, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #628 When the Red Army liberated the city they also liberated...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #607
Red Army cavalry in the early days of the civil war -- Daily LIFT #607 Comrades, by your labor and sacrifice you have saved the cause of...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20215 min read
Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941
On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #488
Red soldiers during the Bolshevik Revolution, drawing, Vladimir Semyonov USSR -- Daily LIFT #488
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Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 202115 min read
The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941
An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...
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Michael Laxer
May 7, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #451
Soviet troops celebrate the liberation of Sevastopol, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #451 Between May 5-7, 1944 the Red Army troops of the...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 13, 20213 min read
Vienna liberated by the Red Army, April 13, 1945
Heroes' Monument of the Red Army, Vienna Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Vienna by the Red Army. In 2020, on the occasion...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Red Forces Win at the Battle of Volochayevka, February 12, 1922
Art and Memorial Photos, USSR 1972 Part of a Battle of Volochayevka Diorama On February 12, 1922 the Red fighters of the People's...
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