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Stalingrad: Hero City of the USSR
The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex, Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th...
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20232 min read
Yakov Sverdlov born June 3, 1885
The great Bolshevik revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov was born June 3, 1885. Yakov Sverdlov, a professional revolutionary, was an outstanding...
Michael Laxer
Jun 3, 20236 min read
Raúl Castro, b. June 3 1931
Raul Castro speaking in 2014 Happy Birthday to Comrade Raúl Castro born 3 June 1931! "This blockade, which our people have faced for more...
Michael Laxer
Jun 3, 20232 min read
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20231 min read
Praskovia Angelina: Hero of Socialist Labor
Praskovia Angelina (also Praskov’ia Nikitichna Angelina) (1913-1959) From Soviet Women, 1953: The collective farm system has produced a...
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20233 min read
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30 The thirtieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking...
Michael Laxer
May 29, 20231 min read
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29 Wartburg Castle in Thuringia is probably most famous as the place where Martin...
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20231 min read
Mao at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, May 23 1942
On May 23, 1942, Mao gave his famous and ideologically significant concluding thoughts on the role of revolutionary literature and art at...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20235 min read
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28 The twenty-eighth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20231 min read
Motorball: The Soviet sport you have probably never heard of
Motorball (sometimes also called Motoball) is a sport that apparently was invented in France in 1934 but that became most popular in the...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20232 min read
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20232 min read
Marx & Engels -- Stamps of the GDR #27
Marx & Engels -- Stamps of the GDR #27 The twenty-seventh in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20231 min read
The story of the iconic 1939 Norman Bethune photo
In May, 1972, in the magazine China Reconstructs photographer Wu Yin-hsien told the story of how he came to take the iconic photo of Dr....
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20233 min read
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #26
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #26 The twenty-sixth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from...
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20231 min read
Marx Speaks at the International Workingmen's Association -- Stamps of the GDR #25
Marx Speaks at the International Workingmen's Association -- Stamps of the GDR #25 The twenty-fifth in our new The Left Chapter series...
Michael Laxer
May 12, 20231 min read
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20237 min read
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20235 min read
April Conference of the Bolsheviks begins May 7, 1917
Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20235 min read
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #24
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #24 A three panel stamp from the German Democratic Republic celebrating the 150th anniversary of Karl...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20231 min read
Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Sketch, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973 Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818. From a Soviet postcard blurb about Marx &...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20231 min read
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