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Michael Laxer
Jun 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #485
Ho Chi Minh (in front) with other delegates at the 5th Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, July 1924 -- Daily LIFT #485
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Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #483
Soviet partisans after the liberation of the Crimea from the Nazis, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #483
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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
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #482
The Motherland Calls Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex at Volgograd (Stalingrad) 1975 -- Daily LIFT #482 Tomorrow, June 22, marks the 80th...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20213 min read
17 panoramic photos of Soviet Donetsk 1973
Known then as Yuzovka, Donetsk at the time of the revolution was a mining city with a population of just over 50,000. After the triumph...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #478
Children play in front of a mural at the Artek Pioneer Youth Camp, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #478 Founded on June 16, 1925 the Artek...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #474
Monument to Lenin, Yalta USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #474
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Michael Laxer
Jun 3, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #469
Fidel Castro with Soviet school children, USSR 1963 - Daily LIFT #469
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Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #468
Peace. Labour. May., Soviet May Day poster, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #468
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Michael Laxer
May 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #467
A monument to the heroes of the revolution, Frunze Kazakh SSR, USSR 1978
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Michael Laxer
May 27, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #465
People and Land, painting USSR 1984, Soviet Belarusian artist Mai Dantsig 1930-2017
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Michael Laxer
May 27, 20213 min read
A trip along Leningrad's Nevsky Prospect, USSR 1974
The Nevsky Prospect is the most famous street in what is now again called St. Petersburg and this was equally true during the Soviet era....
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Michael Laxer
May 19, 20212 min read
Early Soviet car stamps, 1975
Released in 1975 these five Soviet stamps look at motor vehicle production in the early USSR. Starting from the top left the vehicles...
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Michael Laxer
May 11, 20215 min read
Soviet Karelia 1965: Land of Forests and Lakes
The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was originally created in 1923 and comprised the lands of the Karelian people that lie...
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Michael Laxer
May 10, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #454
Maxim Gorky Speaks at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, painting Mikhail Arkadievich Suzdaltsev, 1955 USSR -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
May 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #453
Karl Marx Speaks at the Hague Congress of the First International. 1872, Soviet sketch 1967 -- Daily LIFT #453
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Michael Laxer
May 9, 20211 min read
Happy Victory Day
Happy Victory Day! May 9th, 1945 was Victory Day in the USSR when the Soviets officially accepted the surrender of Germany after years of...
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Michael Laxer
May 8, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #452
Youth of Nicaragua. oil painting Vladimir Pereyaslavets USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #452
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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
May 1, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #447
Lenin Speaks to the Workers, oil-on-canvas USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #447
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