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Daily LIFT #1543
NATO: A Threat to Peace, poster, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1543 Remains true.
Michael Laxer
Jan 171 min read


Daily LIFT #1542
Forward with Leninism, illustration, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1542
Michael Laxer
Jan 161 min read


Daily LIFT #1541
No to Nuclear War!, poster illustration, Y. Utkina, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1541
Michael Laxer
Jan 151 min read


Daily LIFT #1536
USSR People's Commissariat of Health symbol on a diploma, USSR 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1536
Michael Laxer
Jan 101 min read


When did Fidel first say the slogan Socialism or Death!?
Fidel speaks, January 1, 1989 By Enrique Villuendas Calleyro, translated from the Spanish Among the slogans that after the triumph of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 23 min read


Daily LIFT #1528
Builders of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, oil painting, V. Popkov, USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1528
Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20241 min read


Soviet Moscow transport, 1948
A look at transport in the Soviet capital in 1948, just three years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. STREET SCENE. Thousands of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 29, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1524
Lenin with children at the holiday party, folk art piece, artist unknown, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1524 From all of us at The Left Chapter to...
Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1522
Students learning skilled trades at Vocational School #14, Moscow, USSR c. 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1522
Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1516
"How the Soviets Were Formed", book cover illustration, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1516 “If the creative enthusiasm of the revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Dec 14, 20241 min read


The overthrow of capitalism and the building of socialism–communism remain the only way out for the peoples of Europe
On the initiative of the Members of the European Parliament of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the European Communist Meeting was...
Michael Laxer
Dec 7, 20249 min read


The start of a difficult path to victory: The Red Army defends Moscow, 1941
Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20247 min read


Daily LIFT #1507
Karl Marx at Work, lithograph, V. Lapin, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1507
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1506
Lenin arrives from exile at the Finland Station, illustration, Mikhail Sokolov, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1506
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1501
In the Tent of the Loggers, painting, V.V. Zagonek, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1501
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20241 min read


"An Act of Solidarity in Angola" - Fidel Castro, 1975
Fidel Castro during his historic visit to Angola, March 1977 An historic speech given by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in 1975...
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 202412 min read


Daily LIFT #1497
Still Life With Lenin, photograph, Vladimir Rufinovich Lagranzh, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1497
Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20241 min read


The 17th Chess Olympiad, Havana 1966
The International Chess Federation's (FIDE) 17th Chess Olympiad was held in Havana, Cuba between October 23 and November 20, 1966. 52 teams participated in the event which was a huge success for the socialist host nation just 7 years after the Revolution, 5 years after the Bay of Pigs and 4 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. As was expected at the time, the Soviet team won the gold medal at the tournament with the US winning silver and the Hungarian People's Republic bronz
Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1496
Komsomol women at the ‘Svetlana Factory’, painting, A.G. Sittaro (1906-1942), USSR 1937 -- Daily LIFT #1496 Sittaro, a painter also...
Michael Laxer
Nov 19, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1494
The Victory of Communism is Inevitable, motor plant shopfloor, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1494
Michael Laxer
Nov 16, 20241 min read
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