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    Daily LIFT #723
    Michael Laxer
    • Jun 2
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #723

    Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
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    Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963
    Michael Laxer
    • May 26
    • 8 min

    Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963

    The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...
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    Soviet Tashkent in photos and text, 1973 & 1980
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 14
    • 8 min

    Soviet Tashkent in photos and text, 1973 & 1980

    With 18 photographs of the capital of the Uzbek SSR Today we are going to take a look at Soviet Tashkent through 18 postcard photos as...
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    First Flight: Gagarin goes into space April 12, 1961
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 12
    • 2 min

    First Flight: Gagarin goes into space April 12, 1961

    Soviet photos, statements and accounts of the historic launch and the days that followed. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first...
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    Daily LIFT #655
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 22
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #655

    Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #655
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    Daily LIFT #645
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 11
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #645

    General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow 1975 -- Daily LIFT #645
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    Daily LIFT #571
    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #571

    Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
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