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Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #925
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! -- painting, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973
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Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20232 min read
Daily LIFT #923
Master Cannabis Grower Medallion, USSR 1970s -- Daily LIFT #923 While the inscription literally translates as "Master Cannabis" grower...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20232 min read
All Power to the Soviets! -- The April slogan of the Bolsheviks that changed the world
All Power to Soviets, oil on canvas, V. Ladyzhensky USSR 1972 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: All Power to the Soviets!...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #922
"Karl Marx", and "Vladimir Lenin", oil on paper portraits, Aleksei Alekseevich Shovkunenko, USSR -- Daily LIFT #922 From the Great Soviet...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10 Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was a German chess master and thinker who continues to hold the...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20232 min read
Art and Artists of the Soviet Crimea, 1957 -- 15 Paintings
Published in 1957 in the USSR this folder of 15 cards looked at the art and artists of the Soviet Crimea. The works here were painted...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 2, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #914
Changing of the Guard at the Komsomol-Pioneer Post in Heroes Square, Novorossiysk USSR, 1978 -- Daily LIFT #914 To see more photos of...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 30, 20231 min read
Soviet Stamp in Honour of Manolis Glezos
Soviet Stamp in Honour of Manolis Glezos, 1959 Manolis Glezos was a legendary Greek resistance fighter. On 30 May, 1941 Glezos and...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #911
Maxim Gorky on the Volga, painting Vladimir Serov , 1951 -- Daily LIFT #911 The great Maxim Gorky was born March 28, 1868. According to...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #906
Mass rally in Red Square in celebration of Yuri Gagarin's historic first flight into space, Moscow, USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #906
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Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #901
Senior Sergeant Vera Mitushina and Corporal Natasha Zalko of the Soviet Red Army, March 1944 -- Daily LIFT #901 They were students at the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #897
Fidel Castro rabbit hunting in the USSR, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #897
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Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #894
The Cobblestone Is the Weapon of the Proletariat (1927), sculpture, Ivan Shadr, USSR -- Daily LIFT #894 From USSR Magazine, March 1963:...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 1, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #892
Marx and Engels writing the Communist Manifesto, Vitaly Polyakov (1925-1997) USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #892 Vitaly Polyakov was a Soviet...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 202315 min read
Soviet power established in Georgia: February 25, 1921
The State Emblem of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic atop the Republic's flag. On February 25, 1921 the Red Army forces of the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #885
Lenin image w. the quote "The Party is the intelligence, honour and conscience of our times". USSR poster, February, 1981 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #882
Monument to the Heroes of the Civil War, Khabarovsk USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #882 On February 12, 1922 the Red fighters of the People's...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20232 min read
Daily LIFT #881
"Lenin", sculpture USSR, S. Merkurov, from USSR Magazine, January 1949 -- Daily LIFT #881 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Merkurov,...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #878
Order of the October Revolution, USSR -- Daily LIFT #878
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Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #877
Italian Street Scene 1968, Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev, USSR -- Daily LIFT #877
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