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Daily LIFT #1364
Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1364
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1332
Stamp in honour of the 7th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party, German Democratic Republic, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1332 From the Great...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20241 min read


Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1221
International Women's Year, 3-panel design for a stamp and posters celebrating the event, German Democratic Republic 1975 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Ban the Atomic Bomb!
Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1178
International Marxist study group, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1178
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1176
Rosa Luxemburg Memorial Stamp, German Democratic Republic 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1176
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20241 min read


Erich Honecker on the formation of the GDR, October 7, 1949
October 7 marks the anniversary of the formation of German Democratic Republic in 1949. Having come into being as a result of the Second...
Michael Laxer
Oct 7, 202314 min read


Daily LIFT #1032
Disarmament!, poster G. Voigt, German Democratic Republic 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1032 This poster from the GDR won first prize at the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 13, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1017
The Chinese Delegation at the Third World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace, Berlin, German Democratic Republic 1951 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #978
To the Victims of Fascism, painting Hans Grundig, German Democratic Republic 1948 -- Daily LIFT #978 The painting was done by Grundig as...
Michael Laxer
Jul 9, 20231 min read


Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37 A GDR stamp for the Day of the Stamp. The image is of a "modern" postal worker on a...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20231 min read


Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36
Youth Festival stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #36 Stamp in honour of a massive youth festival and meeting held over 3 days in Berlin,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read


Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read


Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34
Ernst Thalmann Memorial stamp, 1954 -- Stamps of the GDR #34 Stamp in memory of the tenth anniversary of the murder of the great leader...
Michael Laxer
Jun 13, 20231 min read


Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #33
Theodor Neubauer and Magnus Poser stamp, 1970 -- Stamps of the GDR #33 Neubauer and Poser were German Communists who worked and organized...
Michael Laxer
Jun 8, 20232 min read


Karl Marx Stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #32
Karl Marx Stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #32
Michael Laxer
Jun 5, 20231 min read


15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20231 min read


Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30 The thirtieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking...
Michael Laxer
May 29, 20231 min read


Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29 Wartburg Castle in Thuringia is probably most famous as the place where Martin...
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20231 min read
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