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    Daily LIFT #438
    Michael Laxer
    • a day ago
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #438

    A small child plays at the base of a Lenin monument, Karelia USSR, 1965 -- Daily LIFT #438
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    Daily LIFT #437
    Michael Laxer
    • 3 days ago
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #437

    Castro addresses an audience in a theatre in Odessa, USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #437
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    Daily LIFT #435
    Michael Laxer
    • 5 days ago
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #435

    Monument in honour of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, Leninskiy Prospect metro station, Moscow USSR c. 1980 -- Daily LIFT #435
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    Daily LIFT #433
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 14
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #433

    Soviet Monument to the workers who built the Moscow Metro -- Daily LIFT #433
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    Vienna liberated by the Red Army, April 13, 1945
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 13
    • 3 min

    Vienna liberated by the Red Army, April 13, 1945

    Heroes' Monument of the Red Army, Vienna Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Vienna by the Red Army. In 2020, on the occasion...
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    The Soviet Space Program: A Review
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 12
    • 2 min

    The Soviet Space Program: A Review

    A look at the Soviet space program from the Soviet point-of-view on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight. Soviet stamp...
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    Daily LIFT #429
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 9
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #429

    Vladimir Mayakovsky Monument, Moscow USSR c. 1968 -- Daily LIFT #429
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    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 3
    • 1 min

    Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966

    Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...
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    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 2
    • 4 min

    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City

    With two bonus views. Text translated from the Russian. The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent and storied port in...
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    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 27
    • 4 min

    The Aleksandr Pushkin and the Montreal-Leningrad Trans-Atlantic line

    Photos via Soviet Union Today, You Tube and public domain. In 1965 the production of the Soviet ocean liner the MS Aleksandr Pushkin was...
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    Daily LIFT #421
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 27
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #421

    1965 advertisement for a 16 day trip from Canada to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #421 Organized by the Canada-USSR Association in Toronto, the...
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    Daily LIFT #419
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 24
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #419

    Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...
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    Daily LIFT #409
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 12
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #409

    The Barrow of Glory, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #409 Located 21 kilometers outside of Minsk of the Moscow Highway, the Barrow of Glory was...
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    The Fairy Tale Cafes of the USSR -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 11
    • 2 min

    The Fairy Tale Cafes of the USSR -- Vintage Cookbook TBT

    with the Nikstukas Cocktail and Potato Horns The photo above is of the Solnyshko (Baby Sun) Café in the far northern Soviet city of...
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    Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 11
    • 1 min

    Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927

    Photos of Revolutionary Russia #50 Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927 -- Photos of...
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    Soviet Pioneers event, 1930
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 10
    • 1 min

    Soviet Pioneers event, 1930

    Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 Mass Soviet Pioneers rally, 1930 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 A large event of the Soviet...
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    Daily LIFT #408
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 10
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #408

    Space Will Serve People, Gagarin poster, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #408 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born March 9, 1934. A...
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    Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, born March 9, 1934
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 9
    • 1 min

    Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, born March 9, 1934

    "Having rounded the Earth in a satellite spaceship, I have seen how beautiful our planet is. Let us preserve and multiply this beauty,...
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    Daily LIFT #407
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 9
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #407

    Internationalism, Peace & Justice! -- Daily LIFT #407 International Women's Day Poster Lithuanian SSR, c. 1985
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    Daily LIFT #406
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 7
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #406

    The Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #406
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