Michael Laxer
Tallinn liberated by Red Army, September 22, 1944
The Estonian capital of Tallinn was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army on September 22, 1944. Among the Red Army heroes who...
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Michael Laxer
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Novorossiysk: Hero City of the USSR, liberated Sept. 16 1943
Malaya Zemlya Memorial From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1028
First International Communist Chinese Detachment, Revolutionary Civil War, Soviet Russia 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1028 Well before the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943: Video
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Sevastopol: Hero City of the USSR
Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 30
- 15 min
Battle of Kursk remembered, July 1983
Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #985
A delegation of Soviet collective farmers delivering tanks manufactured using their donated money to Red Army soldiers in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Odessa: Hero City of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 30
- 10 min
Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Omsk: A fragment of the memorial complex “Fighters who fell for Soviet power" 1971
Photo of part of a memorial complex in Omsk, USSR to those who gave their lives in the revolutionary civil war that led to consolidation...
Michael Laxer
- May 30
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
- May 19
- 2 min
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 7 min
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 5 min
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War Two - February 2, 1943
On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 30
- 13 min
Red Review #83 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the USA, Swaziland, Peru, Australia, India, Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere. There is also a section related to news from the...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #871
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
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