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Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20241 min read
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75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY
Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...
Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20245 min read
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Daily LIFT #1426
Kalinin Prospekt as Seen from the 3rd Smolensky Lane, encaustic USSR 1972, Leonid Korsakov -- Daily LIFT #1426
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1423
Moscow University on Lenin Hills, etching 1953, Alexander Baransky USSR -- Daily LIFT #1423
Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1422
Moscow Subway Workers, woodcut, USSR 1946 -- Daily LIFT #1422
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1421
Leningrad, The Year of 1941, painting Andrei Mylnikov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1421 A painting capturing the beginning of the terrible...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1419
Leningrad Highway, tempera, Georgi Khrapak (1922-1974) USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1419
Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20241 min read
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Decorations of the Soviet Great Patriotic War
From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1985, a brief look at some of the decorations awarded during and after the Great Patriotic War as the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20242 min read
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Daily LIFT #1417
Marshal Zhukov at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade -- Daily LIFT #1417 Georgy Zhukov, the great strategic military Red Army genius who...
Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1416
The Decrees of Soviet Power Being Read to the People, painting USSR, Victor Ivanov -- Daily LIFT #1416
Michael Laxer
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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Fish Cutlets at the Soviet Moskva Restaurant
From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1982, a brief look at the Moskva Restaurant with a recipe for a house specialty: Fish Cutlets. From...
Michael Laxer
Aug 6, 20242 min read
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The right of the Soviet worker to rest and leisure, 1982
The Voroshilov Sanatorium (Named for the Soviet General and one time People's Commissar for Defense), Sochi 1972. Note the funicular...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20246 min read
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Daily LIFT #1403
Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov (1910-1968), USSR -- Daily LIFT #1403 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Vladimir...
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20242 min read
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Building the BAM in the USSR 1979: Road of Courage and Heroism
Here we are taking at a panoramic postcard folder from 1980 that celebrated the remarkable building of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)...
Michael Laxer
Jul 21, 20247 min read
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Daily LIFT #1399
Dynamo Swimming Pool, encaustic painting Leonid Korsakov, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #1399
Michael Laxer
Jul 19, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1398
A New District (Vernadsky Prospekt), gouache Vasily Sigorsky, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1398
Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20241 min read
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Daily LIFT #1397
Parade on Palace Square, Leningrad USSR, November 7, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1397
Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20241 min read
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The NATO Declaration and the Deadly Strategy of Neoconservatism
For the sake of America's security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of...
Michael Laxer
Jul 13, 20245 min read
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Daily LIFT #1392
Glory to the Victorious Soldier!, poster, V. Klimashin USSR -- Daily LIFT #1392
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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