Michael Laxer
Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s
We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 121 min read
Daily LIFT #1217
General Vasily Chuikov (future Marshal of the Soviet Union), Commander of the 62nd Army, at his command post during the Battle of...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 61 min read
Daily LIFT #1212
The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 201 min read
Victory at Stalingrad! -- Stamps of the Red Army #2
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It honours the great victory at Stalingrad in February,...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 30, 202315 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20232 min read
Stalingrad: Hero City of the USSR
The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex, Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 20237 min read
General strikes in France & Britain: Red Review #84 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from France, Britain, Ecuador, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, Russia, Belgium and elsewhere. Communists marching in the British...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20233 min read
KKE commemorates victory at Stalingrad, condemns destruction of memorials to Red Army
The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex in Volgograd (Stalingrad) The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) paid tribute to the victory of the...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20231 min read
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...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #871
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20221 min read
Vasily Zaitsev instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942
Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #848
The Motherland Calls memorial complex in Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #848
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Michael Laxer
May 3, 20223 min read
Children's Railway of Stalingrad, 1949
In early May 1948 -- only just over 5 years after the end of the devastating battle for the city and 3 years after the end of the Second...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20228 min read
Red Army Day, 1944
Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 202217 min read
Stalingrad Year One: A look at the battle and rebuilding from the first anniversary of victory
The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20228 min read
Mamayev Kurgan: The Stalingrad memorial complex at Soviet Volgograd
On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of Stalingrad from the Nazis ending 135 days of...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #632
Fidel Castro visits Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad) during the construction of the Motherland Calls memorial complex, USSR 1963...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #545
On the stairs to the Stalingrad Memorial Complex The Motherland Calls, Volgograd, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #545
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Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #482
The Motherland Calls Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex at Volgograd (Stalingrad) 1975 -- Daily LIFT #482 Tomorrow, June 22, marks the 80th...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20214 min read
Victory at Stalingrad! - Photos of war, resistance and renaissance
A look at the Hero City of Volgograd / Stalingrad in war and peace. On February 2, 1943 the Nazis left in the city surrendered and the...
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