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Michael Laxer
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #316
Karl Marx at work in his study, charcoal drawing, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #316
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Michael Laxer
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Canadian Soviet book ad, 1966
Canadian ad for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, a Soviet book and media distributor, 1966. What is really interesting is the list of various...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #315
Cosmonaut #1, Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Ananiev, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #315
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Michael Laxer
Oct 27, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #313
Members of the Soviet delegation march with the hammer and sickle banner at Expo 67 in Montreal -- Daily LIFT #313
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Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20201 min read
The Zaporozhets ZAZ "Little King of the Big Road"
1967 Soviet advertisement for the Zaporozhets ZAZ aimed at the Canadian market. The ZAZ was the export model of this sturdy car built in...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 23, 20202 min read
Daily LIFT #210
Soviet stamp in honour of the International Year of the Calm Sun, 1964-65 -- Daily LIFT #210 In 1964-65 Soviet astronomers and scientists...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #308
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev enjoy some Georgian wine, Georgian SSR, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #308
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Michael Laxer
Oct 19, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #307
Celebrations in Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, in honour of the centenary of Lenin's birth, USSR, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #307
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Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #306
Monument to Lenin, Khabarovsk, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #306
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #304
Che visits the cruiser Aurora, Leningrad, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #304 The Aurora, of course, fired the famous shot that was the signal to...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #302
Rosa Luxemburg Square, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #302
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Michael Laxer
Oct 3, 20201 min read
17 Postcard Images of Lviv, USSR 1974
In the 70s Lviv was an industrial, administrative and cultural centre in the Ukrainian SSR popular with tourists due to its historic city...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #291
Monument to Union Labour, Dimitrovgrad, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #291
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Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20206 min read
Soviet socialism and the war recovery
History shows that after the almost unreal sacrifices and blows of the war and the distortions to Soviet society these led to, the...
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Michael Laxer
May 8, 20202 min read
The Fall of the Reichstag: An eyewitness Red Army account
Written 20 years after the end of the war, this is a thrilling eyewitness account of the battle for the Reichstag in the final days of...
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