Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #658
Red Army troops after liberating Tbilisi (then know as Tiflis) February 25, 1921 -- Daily LIFT #658 On February 25, 1921 the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20221 min read
Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World!
Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World, Soviet Literacy Poster 1931 Soviet poster noting the great strides in Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #657
State Emblem of the Ukrainian SSR at the Ukrainian Pavilion of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, Moscow USSR -- Daily...
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...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #656
The Potemkin Stairs, Odessa Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #656
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #652
V. I. Lenin Square -- Stavropol, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #652
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20223 min read
Soviet Armenian Dishes, 1971 -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Shashlyk (Lamb Skewers), Sputnik Croquettes, Beef Filet & Bozbash Echmiadzinsky (Lamb Soup) An Armenian hors d'oeuvres platter This...
Michael Laxer
Feb 13, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #648
Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Major Malik Gabdulin at his home near Alma- Ata , capital of Kazakhstan, USSR February 1944. Major...
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #645
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow 1975 -- Daily LIFT #645
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20222 min read
Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility!
Feng Jing of China at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) January 25, 2020 -- Image via Twitter In an amazing story that got far...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #644
Fidel Castro visits the Murmansk fish factory, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #644
Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #642
Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution of 1917, Saratov, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #642
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,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #639
VIVA! - Soviet-Cuban friendship poster -- Daily LIFT #639
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 202217 min read
Stalingrad Year One: A look at the battle and rebuilding from the first anniversary of victory
The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #638
Order of the Red Banner, conferred on the Komsomol (Communist Youth) in 1928 for courage in action at the front in the Civil War, USSR --...
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...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #635
Tanks produced in Leningrad factories drive straight to the front down the Nevsky Prospekt to try to break the siege, January 1943 --...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper, killed in action January 28, 1945
Roza Shanina, born 3 April 1924, grew up in a large working class family in a small town outside of Arkhangelsk. Her parents had named...
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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