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On Armistice Day, Veterans Call for an Armistice in Gaza and Beyond
One hundred and six years after the end of World War I, another such deadly concoction is brewing. War is permanent. Genocide is on TV. A...
Michael Laxer
Nov 11, 20243 min read
Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20242 min read
Decorations of the Soviet Great Patriotic War
From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1985, a brief look at some of the decorations awarded during and after the Great Patriotic War as the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20242 min read
Daily LIFT #1417
Marshal Zhukov at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade -- Daily LIFT #1417 Georgy Zhukov, the great strategic military Red Army genius who...
Michael Laxer
Aug 9, 20241 min read
Magnitogorsk and the Soviet rear
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20242 min read
Loss, Sacrifice and Victory -- Second World War Art of the Soviet Ukraine
Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...
Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20242 min read
The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
May 17, 20242 min read
"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20244 min read
German police attempt to break up commemorations of Soviet victory in WWII
Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen In a shameful...
Michael Laxer
May 11, 20242 min read
Red Army liberates nazi prison at Brandenburg-Görden, April 27, 1945
From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...
Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20242 min read
Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s
We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...
Michael Laxer
Apr 27, 20242 min read
CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR
"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 14, 20243 min read
Daily LIFT #1215
The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
Apr 10, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1212
The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...
Michael Laxer
Apr 6, 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
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
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
Brest: Hero Fortress of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20242 min read
900 days under siege: The heroic struggle of Leningrad
The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...
Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20249 min read
Tula: Hero City of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20232 min read
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