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Daily LIFT #589
Soviet Industry, sketch, Hugo Gellert, USA 1941 -- Daily LIFT #589 A sketch released by Hugo Gellert when the Soviet Union was invaded in...
Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #588
Entrance to the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussel's World Fair, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #588
Michael Laxer
Nov 26, 20211 min read


Remembering Uncle Lenin
A sketch of Lenin with children A remembrance of Lenin by his nephew, Victor Ulyanov published in English by the Soviet magazine USSR in...
Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #583
Lenin Monument, Moscow, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #583
Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20211 min read


Queen of the cabbies of Soviet Kiev, 1982
An interesting piece of Soviet social and transportation history, this brief article takes a look at the life and work of a taxi driver...
Michael Laxer
Nov 13, 20215 min read


Daily LIFT #575
Karl Marx statue, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #575
Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20211 min read


Solidarity with Cuba: WG of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
The Working Group of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) met virtually on November 5 & 6 releasing...
Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #573
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism! -- Daily LIFT #573 In honour of the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20213 min read


Soviet 1960: A year in the life of the USSR in pictures
1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...
Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20219 min read


Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #570
A very young Yuri Gagarin at Lyubertsy trade school, USSR, learning foundry work, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #570 From the Soviet press, 1961:...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20211 min read


Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards
This packet of 13 postcards of Gomel was released in 1976 just a few years after the city celebrated its 730th anniversary. Gomel, in the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #565
Newlyweds lay flowers at the Eternal Flame in memory of the people of Voronezh, USSR who died during World War II, 1977 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 20211 min read


A reminder...
A reminder of how the world was saved from fascism by the Soviet Union and its peoples. In 1977 this powerful monument was erected...
Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #561
Under the banner of Peace and Freedom the World Peace Conference took place in Moscow , October 25-31, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #561
Michael Laxer
Oct 22, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #557
Series of space stamps, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #557 Artist Igor Kominarets won the prize in the competition for the design of a series...
Michael Laxer
Oct 18, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #554
Mao meets with Chinese students and workers living in Moscow, November 1957 -- Daily LIFT #554 Mao visited the USSR for the celebrations...
Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #550
The Order of the October Revolution, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #550 Created in October 1967 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
Oct 5, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #548
Lenin Monument, Lviv, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #548 For more images of Lviv in 1974 see: 17 Postcard Images of Lviv, USSR 1974
Michael Laxer
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #545
On the stairs to the Stalingrad Memorial Complex The Motherland Calls, Volgograd, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #545
Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20211 min read
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