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MAZ-205 -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #5
From the original Soviet card (translated): MAZ-205 (1947-1966) Dump truck on a shortened chassis from YAZ-200 military prototype....

The Left Chapter
May 251 min read


The Son with Two Mothers: A Soviet Story
A woman in front of the flag of the Uzbek SSR -- Crop from a Soviet poster 1980 A remarkable true story from the Soviet press in 1983 of...

The Left Chapter
May 252 min read


The Soviet MI-6 Super Helicopter
Over 900 of the Soviet Mil MI-6 super helicopters were built between 1959–1980. It was, at the time of its launch, not only the world's...

The Left Chapter
May 221 min read


On International Matters: SACP
The South African Communist Party looks at Victory Day, Cuba and the Cuban Revolution, the Trump false refugee fiasco, threats to...

The Left Chapter
May 227 min read


Daily LIFT #1639
Lenin portrait, 1924, Irakli Gamrekeli, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1639 Irakli Gamrekeli (5 May 1894 – 10 May 1943) was a famed and popular...

The Left Chapter
May 201 min read


"Anti-communism will not prevail, historical truth will triumph"
Joint statement by the KKE, AKEL, the Portuguese CP and the CP of Bohemia and Moravia on the anti-communist actions of EPP MEPs ...

The Left Chapter
May 202 min read


Trump is Trying to Reverse the New Deal
Donald Trump May 16, 2025 -- public domain image By Richard D. Wolff After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the...

The Left Chapter
May 208 min read


Peace Street / Gulsum Kdyrgalieva - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #4
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Scientific worker Gulsum Kdyrgalieva of the Power Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Soviet...

The Left Chapter
May 182 min read


Oktyabrsky, 1958: A visit to a new Soviet oil city
The city's main street in 1958 From the Soviet Press in 1958. Oktyabrsky didn't even exist in 1937. But it went from prospector's shacks...

The Left Chapter
May 175 min read


Africa celebrates Victory Day, deepens ties with Russia
Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s Victory against Nazi Germany were organized in countries across Africa,...

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May 176 min read


KKE denounces EU move to criminalize Communist symbols
KKE Headquarters The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that KKE Members of the European Parliament Kostas Papadakis and Lefteris...

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May 131 min read


Daily LIFT #1633
1946 Soviet stamp of the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Red Square -- Daily LIFT #1633

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May 121 min read


80 years after the victory over fascism: No to militarism and war! For peace and co-operation! - PCP
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin -- Drrcs15, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Statement of the Portuguese Communist Party released in...

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May 124 min read


Daily LIFT #1630
Soviet Marshal Konev hailed by the liberated citizens as the Red Army enters Prague, 9 May 1945 -- Daily LIFT #1630 Never forget the...
Michael Laxer
May 91 min read


Progressive Latin American presidents are in Moscow for the Victory Parade
Latin American leaders from Cuba, Venezuela, and Brazil have traveled to Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the Victory against the...

The Left Chapter
May 94 min read


Labour Victories - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #3
From the Soviet Press 1951 I work with Azmorneft, an organization set up not long ago to tap underwater oil deposits lying at the bottom...

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May 92 min read


Putin and Díaz-Canel meet in Moscow
Image via the PCC By Leticia Martínez Hernández, translated from the Spanish Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Cuban President...

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May 82 min read


Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

The Left Chapter
May 85 min read


Daily LIFT #1629
Salute To the Red Army at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, February 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1629 The people of the UK in 1943 understood...

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May 81 min read


Cuban President honours Fidel in Moscow
Image via the PCC First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Cuban Republic,...

The Left Chapter
May 81 min read
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