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Daily LIFT #2047
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai's Delegate's Card (top) at the Comintern's 1935 VII Congress, Moscow, USSR -- Daily LIFT #2047 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (born on 1 November 1910 in Vinh, Nghệ An province) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, politician, and one of the leading figures of the Indochinese Communist Party in the 1930s. On 28 August 1941, at age 30, she was executed by firing squad by the French colonial government at Ngã ba Giồng, Hóc Môn, Gia Định, after the Southern Rebellion faile

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Daily LIFT #2046
All Power to the Soviets!, Lenin illustration, USA 1974 -- Daily LIFT #2046

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Daily LIFT #2045
Komsomol members from the Urals with Krupskaya, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #2045

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Daily LIFT #2044
Monument to Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ulanbataar, Mongolia -- Daily LIFT #2044 The monument to the great Soviet military leader of the Great Patriotic War was erected during the glorious era of the Mongolian People's Republic. Happily it has survived the counter-revolution as this photo is from 2025.

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Daily LIFT #2042
Chairman Mao with model workers at the 2nd Session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference -- Daily LIFT #2042

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Daily LIFT #2041
"The air of the homeland shall not be violated", illustration, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #2041

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Daily LIFT #2040
People's Army, illustration, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #2040

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Daily LIFT #2039
On the Soviet Farm Lands, photo montage, USA, 1930 -- Daily LIFT #2039

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Daily LIFT #2038
Commune de Paris, illustration, Fred Ellis, USA 1926 -- Daily LIFT #2038

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Daily LIFT #2037
Lenin and Sverdlov in the presidium of the Congress Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels, Moscow, December 1918 -- Daily LIFT #2037

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Daily LIFT #2036
Photographers Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo with Mao Zedong 1949 -- Daily LIFT #2036 Xu Xiaobing and Hou Bo, who were married, were famed photographers of Mao and the revolutionary process in China.

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Daily LIFT #2035
"The Working-Class Must Exercise Leadership in Everything", poster, People's Republic of China, May 1, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #2035 The working class must exercise leadership in everything. The people's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails

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Daily LIFT #2034
Delegates to the International Youth Congress in Leningrad, July 26, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2034

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Daily LIFT #2033
“All people in the revolutionary ranks must care for each other, must love and help each other.", Quotation from Chairman Mao, illustration, People's Republic of China, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #2033

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Daily LIFT #2032
View of the grandstand on Karl-Marx-Allee, October 7, 1979, Berlin for the honor parade by the National People's Army (NVA) marking the 30th anniversary of the GDR -- Daily LIFT #2032

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Daily LIFT #2031
Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, photos not earlier than July 23 and not later than August 6, 1920 -- Daily LIFT #2031 Upper image: V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin at the meeting of one of the commissions of the Second Congress of the Communist International Lower image: V. I. Lenin in the presidium of the Second Congress of the Communist International in the Kremlin.

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Daily LIFT #2030
At the GDR-USSR Youth Friendship Festival, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic, May 1980 -- Daily LIFT #2030 Tens of thousands of members of GDR and USSR Communist youth organizations marched on the day.

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Daily LIFT #2029
Legendary French Communist leader Maurice Thorez, 1938 -- Daily LIFT #2029

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Daily LIFT #2028
President Ho Chi Minh signs an order to promulgate the 1959 Constitution on January 1, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #2028 President Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, officially signed the order promulgating the 1959 Constitution on January 1, 1960. This constitution replaced the 1946 Constitution and was adopted by the National Assembly of Vietnam on December 30, 1959 prior to Ho Chi Minh’s signing. The promulgation formally put the constitution into effect

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Daily LIFT #2027
General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti speaks, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #2027

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