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Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Stamps of the GDR #16
Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Stamps of the GDR #16 A stamp honouring the great Polish-French scientist. Curie was the first woman to win a...
Michael Laxer
Apr 24, 20231 min read
Summer Olympics 1972 -- Stamps of the GDR #15
Summer Olympics 1972 -- Stamps of the GDR #15 A GDR stamp for the Summer Olympics which were held in Munich in 1972. The fifteenth in our...
Michael Laxer
Apr 23, 20231 min read
April in Lenin's Life
This short little piece published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in April 1983 looks at the various events that...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20231 min read
International Year of Human Rights, 1968 -- Stamps of the GDR #14
International Year of Human Rights, 1968 -- Stamps of the GDR #14 The fourteenth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70...
Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20231 min read
Socialist Unity Party of Germany formed April 21, 1946
Rally for the tenth anniversary of the formation of the German Democratic Republic, 1959 The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) was...
Michael Laxer
Apr 21, 20236 min read
15 Years of the GDR: Scientist -- Stamps of the GDR #13
15 Years of the GDR: Scientist -- Stamps of the GDR #13 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 20, 20231 min read
League of Communists of Yugoslavia formed April 20, 1919
Yugoslavian stamp in honour of the 40th anniversary of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1959. On April 20, 1919 a congress in...
Michael Laxer
Apr 20, 202311 min read
Second Women's Congress of the GDR, 1969 -- Stamps of the GDR #12
Second Women's Congress of the GDR, 1969 -- Stamps of the GDR #12 The twelfth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70...
Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20231 min read
15 Years of the GDR: Engineer -- Stamps of the GDR #11
15 Years of the GDR: Engineer -- Stamps of the GDR #11 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20231 min read
All Power to the Soviets! -- The April slogan of the Bolsheviks that changed the world
All Power to Soviets, oil on canvas, V. Ladyzhensky USSR 1972 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: All Power to the Soviets!...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10
Emanuel Lasker -- Stamps of the GDR #10 Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) was a German chess master and thinker who continues to hold the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Mao's statement "ln Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Repression" April 16, 1968
On April 16, 1968 Chairman Mao released this stunning and still stirring and important statement in the wake of the brutal murder of...
Michael Laxer
Apr 16, 20233 min read
Of the Poor, by the Poor, for the Poor -- Castro's speech on the eve of the Bay of Pigs
Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion. On April 16, 1961 the day before the Bay of Pigs US backed counter-revolutionary invasion of...
Michael Laxer
Apr 16, 20233 min read
United Rail Vehicle Construction -- Stamps of the GDR #9
United Rail Vehicle Construction Stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #9 A stamp in honour of the United Rail Vehicle Construction state enterprise...
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20231 min read
15 Years of the GDR -- Stamps of the GDR #8
15 Years of the GDR: Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #8 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic. The...
Michael Laxer
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Proletarians of All Lands Unite -- Stamps of the GDR #7
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #7 Marvelous stamp from the 20th anniversary year of the Socialist Unity Party...
Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Art and Artists of the Soviet Crimea, 1957 -- 15 Paintings
Published in 1957 in the USSR this folder of 15 cards looked at the art and artists of the Soviet Crimea. The works here were painted...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20232 min read
50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution -- Stamps of the GDR #6
50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution -- Stamps of the GDR #6 The sixth in our new The Left Chapter daily series...
Michael Laxer
Apr 9, 20231 min read
Winter Olympics -- Stamps of the GDR #5
Winter Olympic Stamp 1976 -- Stamps of the GDR #5 The fifth in our new The Left Chapter daily series looking at over 70 stamps from the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Communist Manifesto -- Stamps of the GDR #4
Marx & Engels Stamp in honour of the Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #4 The fourth in our new The Left Chapter daily series...
Michael Laxer
Apr 6, 20231 min read
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