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Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20211 min read
"They Stand Guard": An example from the USSR of how to counter an outbreak
In 1960 the Soviet Union provided a clear example of how to respond to a major public health threat. Do it quickly and effectively. This...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #525
Castro lights a cigar during a meeting with Khrushchev under the watchful eye of Karl Marx during a trip to the USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20213 min read
Soviet Life's Ukrainian Cuisine 1969 -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Cherry Vareniki, Galushki, Kievsky Salad and Borsch, Ukrainian style. In the December, 1969 issue of the English language magazine...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #521
Fidel Castro in conversation with Spanish Communist hero Dolores Ibárruri in her Moscow apartment, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #521 Ibárruri...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #518
Lenin memorial poster, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #518 The poster by N. Olshansky has two inscriptions that read "Lenin is the weapon of the...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #517
Angela Davis with Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, during a visit to the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #517
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Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #516
Cover of Lenin on Educating the Youth, published for the centennial of his birth, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #516 Two quotes from Lenin...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #515
On the Lake Ladoga Road of Life, BV Korneev (1922-1973) Oil on canvas -- Daily LIFT #515 A painting of a Soviet soldier directing traffic...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read
Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #509
Lenin Square, Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR August 1971 -- Daily LIFT #509
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #508
Monument to the Hero Members of the Young Communist League, Frunze, Kirghiz SSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #508
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Solidarity with revolutionary Cuba!
Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #505
Peace, linocut, Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964) USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #505 Favorsky was name a People’s Artist of the USSR and was a...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #503
Ho Chi Minh with Vietnamese and Soviet children at an internationalist summer camp in the USSR, July 1957 -- Daily LIFT #503
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Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Soviet Vitebsk 1976: 12 postcard images
Published in 1976 this folder of 12 images of Vitebsk in the Byelorussian SSR was aimed at domestic audience and was printed entirely in...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #501
The New China, Konstantin Finogenov (1902–1989) – Honored Artist of the RSFSR, USSR --Daily LIFT #501
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Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #500
Hammer and Sickle, Dmitry Petrov USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #500
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Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Soviet Moskvitch 412
An ad for the Soviet Moskvitch 412 from July 1969. The 412 was produced from 1967-1975 in a factory in Moscow. It was a family sedan that...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Sputnik's Dishes from Odessa, USSR 1969
w. "Kuyalnik" Rolls, Odessa Rissoles and the "Tourist Special". Odessa night street scene, 1975 -- from our post: Second World War Hero...
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