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Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #790
At the Lenin Museum, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #790
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Michael Laxer
Sep 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #788
Let us strengthen the class solidarity and cooperation of all communists of all countries in the struggle for peace and socialism, poster...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT#787
Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959 -- Daily LIFT #787 The Spartakiad was a...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Castro on the counter-revolution in the USSR
"I might say that communism destroyed itself, that it committed suicide in the USSR, and that it had no reason for committing suicide. It...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 29, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #784
The Feat of the Soviet People is Immortal, poster, USSR 1980s -- Daily LIFT #784 The poster celebrated the victory of all the united...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #783
Soviet stamp for the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth -- Daily LIFT #783
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Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #780
Maxim Gorky with a group of Soviet schoolchildren, early 1930s -- Daily LIFT #780. From a History of the Soviet Union, 1968: "Maxim Gorky...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 202213 min read
Lenin's Letter to American Workers written August 20, 1918
On August 20, 1918 Lenin wrote his famous "Letter to American Workers". The Bolshevik Revolution was in a difficult and dangerous...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 17, 20224 min read
Soviet Sochi 1962-1978: Built by and for the people
Today we are going to take a look at the Soviet Black Sea resort city of Sochi with photos and information from 1962, 1972 and 1978. With...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20222 min read
Tuvan People's Republic formed, August 14, 1921
Emblem of the Tuvan People's Republic (1933-1939) The Tuvan People's Republic was formed on August 14, 1921. It was one of three...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20226 min read
USSR Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair
In 1958 the Belgian city of Brussels hosted the World's Fair. The USSR had what was by all accounts a spectacular pavilion from the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #770
USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #769
"May 1: Glory to the Great Soviet Union, the Standard Bearer of Peace!", poster USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #769
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Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #768
Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 2, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #767
Youth, Alexei Tertyshnikov and Igor Kravtsov, USSR 1962 -- Daily LIFT #767
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Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20222 min read
"Yes, I am Alive! And I Shall Live Forever!" -- Lesya Ukrainka, revolutionary poet and writer
Triumphant and solemn, the flash of predawn light Has pierced through the gloom of the night Still asleep are the rays of the sun --...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20224 min read
Nakhodka: Visiting the Soviet Far East Port City, 1976
For most of its history the area of the city of Nakhodka was a small set of towns on the Pacific coast of the Russian and then Soviet Far...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #762
B. B. King in the USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #762 King toured the USSR in 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow,...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #760
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, July 22 1932 -- Daily LIFT #760 The photographer, Mikhail Ozersky, in 1963 wrote of the photo that was taken on...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #759
Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...
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