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Lenin at the Soviet Palace of the Congresses, 1961
The Lenin Curtain in the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses, Moscow, USSR 1961 The stunning Lenin Curtain that hung at the USSR's Palace of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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
Daily LIFT #1367
Lenin Badge of the Soviet Komsomol & Order of the October Revolution -- Daily LIFT #1367 Art for the 50th Anniversary of the Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Jun 8, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1362
Lenin Square, Bryansk, USSR 1980 -- Daily LIFT #1362
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20241 min read
Population of the USSR 1979: Stats & Insights
Red Square May Day Rally 1978 A look at the state and trends of population levels in the USSR in the 1979-1984 period showing its...
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20245 min read
Some aspects of the contemporary experience and assessments of the struggle against fascism -- KKE
Outside of KKE HQ in Athens The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) have released their contribution to the European Communist Action meeting...
Michael Laxer
May 28, 202416 min read
Culture for the People: USSR 1984
Image from Soviet stamp, 1971 From the USSR media in 1984 a look at how Soviet socialism brought culture to the people. "Citizens of the...
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20243 min read
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in facts and figures 1985
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in February, 1985 this is a look at the great revolutionary,...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20242 min read
Viktor Koretskii, Soviet poster artist b. May 18, 1909
Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), was an astonishingly prolific Soviet artist created some of the USSR's most iconic...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20241 min read
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
Historical conclusions from the tactics of the anti-fascist fronts: The contemporary struggle of communists against fascism
Contribution of the Workers Party of Ireland at the European Communist Action meeting in Madrid (11th May 2024): Dear Comrades:...
Michael Laxer
May 16, 20249 min read
Daily LIFT #1345
Lenin in Gorki talking with the peasants, drawing, Pyotr Vasilyev, USSR 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1345 Vasilyev (1899 – 1975) was a member of...
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1344
Lenin and Krupskaya, painting, Viktor Nikolaevich Pegov USSR -- Daily LIFT #1344
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1343
Firstborn, painting Evgeny Rastorguev, USSR 1949 -- Daily LIFT #1343
Michael Laxer
May 12, 20241 min read
"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
German police attempt to break up commemorations of Soviet victory in WWII
Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen In a shameful...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20242 min read
Daily LIFT #1342
Lenin Monument, Ivanov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1342
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1341
Autoworkers 1976, oil painting, Dmitry Pavlovich Shushkalov USSR -- Daily LIFT #1341
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1337
Marx addresses a meeting of the First International, pencil drawing, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1939-40. Karl Marx was born May 5,...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1334
Rusakovsky Tram Park, painting Samuil Adlivankin, USSR 1928 -- Daily LIFT #1334
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20241 min read
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