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Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 17, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #985
A delegation of Soviet collective farmers delivering tanks manufactured using their donated money to Red Army soldiers in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 15, 2023
- 2 min
Odessa: 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
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min
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
- Jun 22, 2023
- 2 min
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
- May 30, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
- May 19, 2023
- 2 min
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 9, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #937
Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937
Michael Laxer
- May 9, 2023
- 7 min
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, 2023
- 5 min
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 8, 2023
- 1 min
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
- Apr 24, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #927
Friends - P. P. Parhet, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #927 One of the more evocative and emotionally powerful pieces of Soviet military art....
Michael Laxer
- Mar 13, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #901
Senior Sergeant Vera Mitushina and Corporal Natasha Zalko of the Soviet Red Army, March 1944 -- Daily LIFT #901 They were students at the...
Michael Laxer
- Feb 2, 2023
- 1 min
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War Two - February 2, 1943
On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 27, 2023
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #871
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Lepa Radić, heroic Yugoslavian anti-fascist partisan, born December 19, 1925
Lepa Radić, heroic Communist Yugoslavian anti-fascist partisan and resistance fighter was born December 19, 1925. After the Nazis invaded...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 17, 2022
- 1 min
Vasily Zaitsev instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942
Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15, 2022
- 3 min
Soviet Minsk, 1968: 45 color photos
Published in 1968, this tourist photo book had 44 attached full color photos as well as a panoramic one that was its inside cover. Minsk...
Michael Laxer
- Sep 17, 2022
- 3 min
Bryansk liberated by Red Army, Sept. 17 1943
Monument of Glory to the Soldiers and Partisans - Liberators of Bryansk, USSR 1973 On September 17, 1943 the forces of the Red Army...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Anniversary of the start of the 1942 Luxembourg General Strike against the Nazis
August 31, 1942 marked the beginning of the incredibly courageous Luxembourg General Strike against the Nazi occupiers. In August, 1942...
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