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Daily LIFT #1203
Armenian Children on May Day, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1203
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20241 min read


Hold High the Flag of Socialism - Communism: The Red Flag of Lenin
From the Communist Party of Greece (KKE): The political, trade union, ideological and cultural action of the KKE continues unabated. The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20248 min read


The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919
Flag The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919. According to a 1964 Soviet magazine post in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 202411 min read


Rally commemorating Latvian SS Legionnaires held in Riga,16 March 2024
Photo from the Junge Welt, Berlin-based Marxist daily, March 18, 2024 As it does annually on 16 March, the Latvian government authorised...
Michael Laxer
Mar 19, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1195
Poster for the 29th Anniversary of the Revolution, USSR 1946 -- Daily LIFT #1195
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20241 min read


To the West! -- Stamps of the Red Army #6
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the famous 1943 'To the West' war...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20241 min read


Oryol -- City of the First Fireworks
Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20243 min read


Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands -- A Trip to the Soviet Far East, 1973
At the end of the Second World War with the defeat of Japan the Soviet Union took full control of Sakhalin Island (which is the largest...
Michael Laxer
Mar 7, 20242 min read


Red Army Liberator -- Stamps of the Red Army #5
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a part of the classic Red Army...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1185
Lenin Reading Pravda, oil on canvas Vsevolod Medvedev (1912-1985), USSR 1965 -- Daily LIFT #1185 A striking artistic take on the iconic...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20241 min read


Bird Falls -- A Soviet War Poem
Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1179
Committee Meeting of Soviet Trade Unionists, sketch, William Gropper, February 1929 -- Daily LIFT #1179
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20241 min read


Ukrainian Borsch, Cabbage Carrot Apple and Green Pepper Salad & Apples with Cottage Cheese Stuffing
Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #1 In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian cookery and...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20242 min read


Soviet Stavropol, 1972 -- 18 postcard images
V. I. Lenin Square Published in 1972, this packet of 18 particularly vivid photographs showed images of the Russian city of Stavropol...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20242 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,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20241 min read


Red Army liberates Vladivostok, October 1922 -- Stamps of the Red Army #1
Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1172
Marx, Engels, Lenin stamp for the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1172
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20241 min read


Pham Tuân, Vietnamese Cosmonaut and fighter pilot, b. Feb. 14, 1947
Phạm Tuân, born on February 14, 1947 in Quôc Tuân, Vietnam, holds a remarkable place in space history. Tuân fought to help liberate his...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1166
Väike-Karja Street, Tallinn, painting W.L. Pedanik, Estonian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #1166
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1165
The Volga Hostess, painting USSR Alexey Prokopenko (1926-1998) 1977 -- Daily LIFT #1165
Michael Laxer
Feb 7, 20241 min read
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