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Daily LIFT #1630
Soviet Marshal Konev hailed by the liberated citizens as the Red Army enters Prague, 9 May 1945 -- Daily LIFT #1630 Never forget the...
Michael Laxer
2 days ago1 min read
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Putin and Díaz-Canel meet in Moscow
Image via the PCC By Leticia Martínez Hernández, translated from the Spanish Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Cuban President...

The Left Chapter
3 days ago2 min read
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Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

The Left Chapter
4 days ago5 min read
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Daily LIFT #1629
Salute To the Red Army at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, February 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1629 The people of the UK in 1943 understood...

The Left Chapter
4 days ago1 min read
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Global South leaders join Victory Day events in Moscow as Europe stays away
Marking the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Global South leaders are gathering in Moscow, while EU remains absent. Mamayev...

The Left Chapter
4 days ago3 min read
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We must always be alert to the danger of fascism
Image via the PCC Remarks by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee...

The Left Chapter
May 45 min read
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We honour V.I. Lenin "the defender of peoples’ struggle for national and social liberation, social justice, peace, and socialism"
Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties on the 155th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin Joint Statement of Communist and...

The Left Chapter
Apr 226 min read
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Soviet memorials must be defended. Treaties are to be respected.
Defending Soviet memorials also means showing up in large numbers on May 8 and9 - Photo: Little Polar Bear 2015 / Wikimedia Commons / CC...

The Left Chapter
Apr 57 min read
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Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 272 min read
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The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941
Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20247 min read
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Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20242 min read
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Daily LIFT #1354
Lenin and others in Red Square for the military parade and speeches, May 25, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #1354
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20241 min read
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The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
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
May 17, 20242 min read
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"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20244 min read
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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
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CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR
"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 14, 20243 min read
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Daily LIFT #1215
The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20241 min read
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Red Army Victory! -- Stamps of the Red Army #7
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...
Michael Laxer
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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Sergei Kirov b. March 27, 1886
Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20245 min read
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She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 202410 min read
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