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Daily LIFT #1937
Ho Chi Minh and Zhou Enlai at a banquet in Beijing, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1937

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Daily LIFT #1936
Postal worker braves the elements, People's Republic of China, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1936

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Daily LIFT #1935
A Tibetan Barefoot Doctor at work in the field, Woodcut, Li Huan-ming, People's Republic of China 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1935 The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The pr

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Daily LIFT #1934
Che in Havana, January 3, 1959 at the dawn of the Revolution -- Daily LIFT #1934

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Daily LIFT #1933
Ho Chi Minh visits with young children -- Daily LIFT #1933

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Daily LIFT #1932
USSR postage stamp, 1965, "Marxism-Leninism - an eternally living revolutionary doctrine." -- Daily LIFT #1932

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Daily LIFT #1931
Fidel Castro Bust, V. Telishev artist, USSR 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1931

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Daily LIFT #1930
V. I. Lenin meets with members of the Executive Committee of the IV Congress of the Comintern (Marcel Cachin, Clara Zetkin, Bela Kun, Sen Katayama), painting, E. Shirokov, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1930

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Daily LIFT #1929
Crossing the Yangtze River, colour woodcut Ding Yan, People's Republic of China, 1955 -- Daily LIFT #1929 Artistic representation of the Communist soldiers making the critical crossing under intense fire during final months of the revolutionary civil war.

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Daily LIFT #1928
Insulators, V. M. Borovko, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1928 Marvelous neo-socialist realist piece portraying working women.

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Daily LIFT #1927
Fidel Castro and Yuri Gagarin, painting, Nikolai Grigorevich Petrov, USSR, 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1927

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Daily LIFT #1926
"Glory to the Achievements of October!", artist S. Gorlishchev, USSR 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1926

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Daily LIFT #1925
Fidel Castro receives the Order of Lenin at a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, June 1972 - Daily LIFT #1925

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Daily LIFT #1924
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (center) in Leipzig, 1909 -- Daily LIFT #1924

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Daily LIFT #1923
Ho Chi Minh poster for a Cuban documentary film, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1923

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Daily LIFT #1922
Mao Receives the Model Workers, painting, Li Mo Bai People's Republic of China, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1922

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Daily LIFT #1921
Imperialism: On to the Next War, cartoon, Fred Ellis, USA 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1921

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Daily LIFT #1920
Liebknecht & Luxemburg, stamp set, German Democratic Republic, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1920

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Daily LIFT #1919
Giant Industrial Frequency Heat-Treatment Equipment, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1919 From the Chinese press, 1968: A hundred-ton rolling-mill roll standing high as a two-storey building and so big that four men can touch outstretched arms around it, moved along swiftly on an overhead travelling crane and dropped easily into the opening of the heat-treatment tower. As red and green lights on the control panel flashed, the giant roll was rapidly turned, to

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Daily LIFT #1918
Chairman Mao having a smoke on a train, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1918

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