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Michael Laxer
Oct 281 min read
Daily LIFT #1480
Brezhnev and Honecker in Berlin, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1480
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Michael Laxer
Sep 271 min read
Daily LIFT #1454
Comrade Leonid Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar, giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942) -- Daily LIFT...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 291 min read
Daily LIFT #1432
Leonid Brezhnev lighting the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, USSR, May 8, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1432
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Michael Laxer
Aug 281 min read
Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
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Michael Laxer
Jan 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1133
Soviet graphic (stamp) for the 110th Anniversary of Lenin's birth in 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1133 Has a quote from Leonid Brezhnev that reads...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #863
RUSSIANS, UKRAINIANS, ARMENIANS, ESTONIANS, UZBEKS, KAZAKHS...MORE THAN 100 NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES BUT ONE UNION --The unity of the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #835
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and sculptor Lev Kerbel among others at the Karl Marx statue in Moscow, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #835
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Michael Laxer
Sep 26, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #803
Brezhnev, Castro and Lenin -- Daily LIFT #803
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Michael Laxer
Jul 11, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #752
Comrades Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev enjoying a light moment -- Daily LIFT #752
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Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #723
Castro and Brezhnev in Havana, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #723
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Michael Laxer
May 25, 20228 min read
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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Michael Laxer
Apr 14, 20228 min read
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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Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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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Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #655
Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro in Cuba, 1974 -- Daily LIFT #655
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Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #645
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow 1975 -- Daily LIFT #645
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Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read
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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