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Michael Laxer
Mar 31 min read
Daily LIFT #1185
Lenin Reading Pravda, oil on canvas Vsevolod Medvedev (1912-1985), USSR 1965 -- Daily LIFT #1185 A striking artistic take on the iconic...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 281 min read
Bird Falls -- A Soviet War Poem
Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 251 min read
Daily LIFT #1179
Committee Meeting of Soviet Trade Unionists, sketch, William Gropper, February 1929 -- Daily LIFT #1179
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Michael Laxer
Feb 252 min read
Ukrainian Borsch, Cabbage Carrot Apple and Green Pepper Salad & Apples with Cottage Cheese Stuffing
Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #1 In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian cookery and...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 242 min read
Soviet Stavropol, 1972 -- 18 postcard images
V. I. Lenin Square Published in 1972, this packet of 18 particularly vivid photographs showed images of the Russian city of Stavropol...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 201 min read
Victory at Stalingrad! -- Stamps of the Red Army #2
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 191 min read
Red Army liberates Vladivostok, October 1922 -- Stamps of the Red Army #1
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 171 min read
Daily LIFT #1172
Marx, Engels, Lenin stamp for the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1172
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Michael Laxer
Feb 142 min read
Pham Tuân, Vietnamese Cosmonaut and fighter pilot, b. Feb. 14, 1947
Phạm Tuân, born on February 14, 1947 in Quôc Tuân, Vietnam, holds a remarkable place in space history. Tuân fought to help liberate his...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 81 min read
Daily LIFT #1166
Väike-Karja Street, Tallinn, painting W.L. Pedanik, Estonian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #1166
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Michael Laxer
Feb 71 min read
Daily LIFT #1165
The Volga Hostess, painting USSR Alexey Prokopenko (1926-1998) 1977 -- Daily LIFT #1165
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Michael Laxer
Feb 31 min read
Daily LIFT #1161
Lenin Sculpture, metal, I. M. Rukavishnikov, USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #1161
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Michael Laxer
Feb 27 min read
“The decision to join NATO is based in the interests of Swedish monopoly capital”
Communist Party of Sweden on its opposition to NATO. With the intensification of global imperialist conflict since the beginning of the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Daily LIFT #1159
Marxism-Leninism: For Peace, Unity, Social Progress, poster USSR 1970s -- Daily LIFT #1159
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Michael Laxer
Jan 301 min read
Daily LIFT #1156
The First Red Army Soldiers 1918, painting, Ivan Georgievich Drozdov (1880-1939), USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #1156
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Michael Laxer
Jan 151 min read
Daily LIFT #1145
Drillers at Dnieprostroy, woodcut, Vassyl Kasiyan, USSR 1937 -- Daily LIFT #1145 Vasyl Illich Kasiyan was born in January 1896 and died...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 129 min read
Nationalize the oil industry & end the rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators: Dispatches from Kazakhstan
Strikers read out demands at the Velikaya Stena oil firm in Kazakhstan Comrades in the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan have issued...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 91 min read
Daily LIFT #1139
Soviet electric welder in action, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1139
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Michael Laxer
Jan 81 min read
Daily LIFT #1137
Red Soldier On Guard, woodcut Alexey Kravchenko, USSR 1937 -- Daily LIFT #1137
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Michael Laxer
Jan 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1133
Soviet graphic (stamp) for the 110th Anniversary of Lenin's birth in 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1133 Has a quote from Leonid Brezhnev that reads...
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