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Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20232 min read


Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Jun 30, 202310 min read


Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #966
"… And at the Pacific Ocean They have ended their campaign", painting D. P. Dmitriev (1925-1980), USSR. From a series called "Songs of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20231 min read


Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20231 min read


"You ought to be ashamed of yourselves": Paul Robeson stands up against McCarthyism June 12, 1956
On June 12, 1956 the great American singer, actor, athlete, Communist and all-around Renaissance man Paul Robeson appeared before the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 12, 202320 min read


Aram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian Composer b. June 6, 1903
Aram Khachaturian meets Che in the USSR, 1960 Aram Khachaturian -- widely regarded as one of the Soviet Union's greatest composers -- was...
Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20233 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...
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #954
Quartz-lamp treatment in the nursery of the Segezh Paper Mills, Karelo-Finnish SSR, USSR 1953 -- Daily LIFT #954 Trippy looking photo of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #953
Lenin Monument in Ulyanovsk, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #953
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20231 min read


Praskovia Angelina: Hero of Socialist Labor
Praskovia Angelina (also Praskov’ia Nikitichna Angelina) (1913-1959) From Soviet Women, 1953: The collective farm system has produced a...
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20233 min read


Daily LIFT #952
Three People's Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #952 U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet deputies (left to right):...
Michael Laxer
May 31, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
May 30, 20231 min read


Motorball: The Soviet sport you have probably never heard of
Motorball (sometimes also called Motoball) is a sport that apparently was invented in France in 1934 but that became most popular in the...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20232 min read


Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #943
Drawings from Soviet school children first published in May, 1924 -- Daily LIFT #943 1. Cleaning away snow. 2 Village Agitator. 3. In the...
Michael Laxer
May 17, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #937
Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20231 min read


Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20237 min read


Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20235 min read


Daily LIFT #936
Long Live the United Front of the Freedom-Loving Peoples Against the Fascist Invaders!, Soviet war poster, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #936 Poster...
Michael Laxer
May 8, 20231 min read
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