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To the West! -- Stamps of the Red Army #6
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the famous 1943 'To the West' war...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20241 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...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20243 min read
Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20248 min read
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20247 min read
Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands -- A Trip to the Soviet Far East, 1973
At the end of the Second World War with the defeat of Japan the Soviet Union took full control of Sakhalin Island (which is the largest...
Michael Laxer
Mar 7, 20242 min read
Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. Atapuerca, Gran Dolina excavation -- Malopez 21, CC BY-SA...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20246 min read
Red Army Liberator -- Stamps of the Red Army #5
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a part of the classic Red Army...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20241 min read
The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
By Brenna R. Hassett Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20244 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...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Lenin: A Worker of Miracles - Moissaye J. Olgin
V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the funeral of Sverdlov. Moscow, March 1919 Surrounded by the ancient walls of the Kremlin, where the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20244 min read
'Did You Volunteer', the Young Red Army marches -- Stamps of the Red Army #4
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the classic Red Revolutionary Civil...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Even the olives are bleeding -- Solidarity with Palestine and Remembering the International Brigades
Monument erected to International Brigades on the site of the Jarama Battlefield -- Dennisbluie, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/l...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Two-month-old baby dies due to malnutrition in Gaza City
Image via the Palestinian People's Party In yet another horrific example of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a two-month-old child, named...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20242 min read
Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
Archaeological Zone of Yaxchilan -- ZoRrO0880, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Lenin Addressing Red Revolutionary Vsevobuch Troops in 1919 -- Stamps of the Red Army #3
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows Lenin addressing and rallying the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20241 min read
The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond
Young couple enjoying each other's company -- John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22, 20246 min read
Growing Clues That India’s Central Narmada Valley Was a Key Hub in the Human Story
India's Central Narmada Valley -- via Wikimedia Commons By Saurav Sarkar In December 1982, a geologist digging in India’s Central Narmada...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20244 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,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20241 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...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20241 min read
The Road to Victory: The Communist Liberation of China
Mao reviews a PLA tank unit after the liberation at the Xiyuan Airport Beijing, March 1949 Published in the English language magazine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20248 min read
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