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Daily LIFT #1813
New Doctors tor Borderland Villages (Papercut), Yuan Kuo-ping, People's Republic of China, 1976 From the PRC Press: "New Doctors for Borderland Villages", a uniquely decorative papercut, shows a woman army medical worker teaching barefoot doctors of minority nationalities the use of medicinal herbs.

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Dec 4, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1812
Maurice Thorez, legendary General Secretary of the French Communist Party, talks with delegates from Siberia at the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1812

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Dec 3, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1811
Keeping His Youth, Gouache, Li Ping-kang, People's Republic of China c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1811 From the PRC Press: In "Keeping His Youth", gouache, during a break in field work a grey-haired commander explains quotations from Marx, Engels and Lenin on the dictatorship of the proletariat to a group of young people with education who have gone to work on a farm. He typifies veteran revolutionaries who are helping to bring up a new generation to carry on the revolution.

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Dec 2, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1810
Nikita Khrushchev delivers the report "On the Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" at the Twenty Second Communist Party Congress on October 18 , 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1810

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Dec 1, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1809
Under the Apple Trees, traditional-style painting, Lei Hung-sheng and Liu Han-yu, People's Republic of China, c. 1976 From the PRC Press: In "Under the Apple Trees", another traditional-style painting, a young cook with water flasks and cups swinging from his shoulder pole passes beneath apple trees heavy with ripe fruit, taking water to the men helping a commune pick apples. The scene calls to mind an incident during the Third Revolutionary Civil War (1946-49) when the PLA w

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Nov 30, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1808
Engels and Marx at Hague Congress, illustration -- Daily LIFT #1808 Friedrich Engels was born November 28, 1820

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Nov 28, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1807
The Workers Armed, Spanish Civil War illustration, Raphael Soyer, first published in the US Leftists magazine New Masses, December, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1807

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Nov 27, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1806
The Moscow Restaurant Cafe, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, 1960s -- Daily LIFT #1806

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Nov 26, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1805
May Day rally and celebration in a Beijing park, People's Republic of China, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1805

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Nov 25, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1804
Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Through to the End! (oil painting) by Huang Chin-sheng and Chang Wen-hsin, People's Republic of China, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1804

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Nov 24, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1803
Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende at mass event held in Punta Arenas, Chile during Castro's visit there in November, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1803

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Nov 22, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1802
Soviet City of the Future, illustration, E. Serov, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1802

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Nov 20, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1801
Communist march in Riga, Latvia, 1940 -- Daily LIFT #1801

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Nov 19, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1800
From all walks of life: Deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1947, Olga Belousova, a factory worker, and Lieutenant General Josef Kotin.-- Daily LIFT#1780

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Nov 18, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1799
On the March, cartoons from the Little Red Guard Magazine, People's Republic of China, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #1799 Little Red Guard Magazine was by and for youth and promoted values of community, solidarity and selflessness.

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Nov 17, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1798
May Day parade on Stalin Square, Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic, 1955 -- Daily LIFT #1798

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Nov 16, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1797
Pasha Angelina (right) famed hero tractor driver of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1930s helped to teach tractor driving skills to countless collective farm workers and to popularize tractor skill education for women collective farmers across the USSR -- Daily LIFT #1797

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Nov 15, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1796
Red Guardsmen, Soldiers of the Revolution, illustration, USSR 1947 from a painting by Maximov -- Daily LIFT #1796

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Nov 14, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1795
Krupskaya with a group of Soviet Young Pioneers, 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1795

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Nov 13, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1794
Lo Chang-ken (center) of the Midstream Island Commune explaining fixing a tractor to young mechanics, People's Republic of China, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1794

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Nov 12, 20251 min read
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