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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
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23 The twenty-second in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20231 min read
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22 A stamp honouring the Communist Manifesto featuring Marx & Engels. The twenty-second in our...
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20231 min read
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21 Stamp in honour of the great Marxist thinker and revolutionary,...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20231 min read
Olympic cycling, Summer Olympics 1976 -- Stamps of the GDR #20
Olympic cycling, Summer Olympics 1976 -- Stamps of the GDR #20 The twentieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Message on the Liberation of Saigon - Mao, Zhu De & Zhou Enlai, April 30 1975
The south Vietnamese army and civilians, after fighting long and valiantly, have thoroughly crushed the puppet regime in south Viet Nam...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20233 min read
Leaders of Communism -- Stamps of the GDR #19
Leaders of Communism -- Stamps of the GDR #19 The nineteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #18 The eighteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German Democratic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 28, 20231 min read
Sixth Congress of the International Organization of Journalists -- Stamps of the GDR #17
Sixth Congress of the International Organization of Journalists -- Stamps of the GDR #17 The Sixth Congress of the International...
Michael Laxer
Apr 26, 20231 min read
"We celebrate this liberating act that put an end to the long fascist night"
The PCP on the legacy of the Portuguese April Carnation Revolution A street scene from the Carnation Revolution 1974 The Carnation...
Michael Laxer
Apr 25, 202318 min read
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