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General Ramón Espinosa Martín, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, died on Tuesday
Via the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On Tuesday afternoon (September 24), member of the Political...
Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1450
Harbinger, K. Bekmuradov, Turkmenian SRR, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1450
Michael Laxer
Sep 23, 20241 min read


A look at the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the USSR
A young woman is admitted into the Komsomol in Norilsk, USSR 1960s - Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses...
Michael Laxer
Sep 21, 20245 min read


No to the prohibition of Communist ideology in the republics of Central Asia!
The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, with the Communist parties of Greece and Mexico, has issued a statement condemning recent attempts...
Michael Laxer
Sep 18, 20243 min read


Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez goes into space, 18 September, 1980
On September 18, 1980 after extensive training in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet internationalist Interkosmos program, Arnaldo...
Michael Laxer
Sep 18, 20241 min read


The Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR
Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959. The Spartakiad was a festival of amateur,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20245 min read


Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1980
Stamp for the XXVI congress of the CPSU, 1981, From the Soviet Press in 1981, a brief look at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Michael Laxer
Sep 3, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1434
Gorky St. as Seen from Okhotny Rd. 1952, Autolithograph, Emmanuil Bernstein USSR -- Daily LIFT #1434
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20241 min read


Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
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
Aug 31, 20242 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
Michael Laxer
Aug 29, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20241 min read


Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20247 min read


Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20245 min read


Homemade Car Rallies of the USSR w. the Amphibious Ichtyandr
Through the 70s and into the 80s amateur homemade car rallies were held in the USSR in which ordinary citizens built their own vehicles...
Michael Laxer
Aug 25, 20245 min read


Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20241 min read


75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY
Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...
Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20245 min read


Daily LIFT #1426
Kalinin Prospekt as Seen from the 3rd Smolensky Lane, encaustic USSR 1972, Leonid Korsakov -- Daily LIFT #1426
Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1423
Moscow University on Lenin Hills, etching 1953, Alexander Baransky USSR -- Daily LIFT #1423
Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1422
Moscow Subway Workers, woodcut, USSR 1946 -- Daily LIFT #1422
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20241 min read
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