WWII | The Left Chapter

The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941

Michael Laxer

Dec 57 min read

The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941

Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...

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On Armistice Day, Veterans Call for an Armistice in Gaza and Beyond

Michael Laxer

Nov 113 min read

On Armistice Day, Veterans Call for an Armistice in Gaza and Beyond

One hundred and six years after the end of World War I, another such deadly concoction is brewing. War is permanent. Genocide is on TV. A...

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Michael Laxer

Aug 312 min read

Salaspils and the "Ost" plan

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

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Decorations of the Soviet Great Patriotic War

Michael Laxer

Aug 102 min read

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...

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Michael Laxer

Aug 91 min read

Daily LIFT #1417

Marshal Zhukov at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade -- Daily LIFT #1417 Georgy Zhukov, the great strategic military Red Army genius who...

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Michael Laxer

Jun 222 min read

Magnitogorsk and the Soviet rear

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

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Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine

Michael Laxer

Jun 92 min read

Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine

Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...

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Michael Laxer

May 172 min read

The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

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"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR

Michael Laxer

May 114 min read

"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR

Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...

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German police attempt to break up commemorations of Soviet victory in WWII

Michael Laxer

May 112 min read

German police attempt to break up commemorations of Soviet victory in WWII

Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen In a shameful...

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Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945

Michael Laxer

Apr 292 min read

Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945

From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...

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Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s

Michael Laxer

Apr 272 min read

Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s

We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...

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Michael Laxer

Apr 142 min read

CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR

"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...

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Michael Laxer

Apr 101 min read

Daily LIFT #1215

The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...

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Michael Laxer

Apr 61 min read

Daily LIFT #1212

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...

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Michael Laxer

Mar 123 min read

Oryol -- City of the First Fireworks

Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...

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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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Victory at Stalingrad! -- Stamps of the Red Army #2

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 22 min read

Brest: Hero Fortress of the USSR

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

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900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad

Michael Laxer

Jan 189 min read

900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad

The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...

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