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Bolshevik decree nationalizing industry and transportation June 28, 1918
In one of the most significant, and world altering, revolutionary moments in human history, on June 28, 1918 -- in the face of the forces...
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20237 min read
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20232 min read
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36 Stamp in honour of a massive youth festival and meeting held over 3 days in Berlin,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Omsk: A fragment of the memorial complex “Fighters who fell for Soviet power" 1971
Photo of part of a memorial complex in Omsk, USSR to those who gave their lives in the revolutionary civil war that led to consolidation...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read
"The heart of the international Socialist never beats a retreat" -- Debs speaks June 16, 1918
On June 16, 1918 the great US Socialist leader Eugene V,. gave his famous speech in opposition to World War I and in favour of peace and...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20237 min read
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34
Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34 Stamp in memory of the tenth anniversary of the murder of the great leader...
Michael Laxer
Jun 13, 20231 min read
"You ought to be ashamed of yourselves": Paul Robeson stands up against McCarthyism June 12, 1956
On June 12, 1956 the great American singer, actor, athlete, Communist and all-around Renaissance man Paul Robeson appeared before the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 12, 202320 min read
Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #33
Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser stamp, 1970 -- Stamps of the GDR #33 Neubauer and Poser were German Communists who worked and organized...
Michael Laxer
Jun 8, 20232 min read
Aram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian Composer b. June 6, 1903
Aram Khachaturian meets Che in the USSR, 1960 Aram Khachaturian -- widely regarded as one of the Soviet Union's greatest composers -- was...
Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20233 min read
Karl Marx Stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #32
Karl Marx Stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #32
Michael Laxer
Jun 5, 20231 min read
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 30, 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
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