Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #594
Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20215 min
Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941
On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #586
French Resistance fighter with her rifle and rounds in Rouen during the liberation, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #586 Rouen was finally liberated...
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #483
Soviet partisans after the liberation of the Crimea from the Nazis, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #483
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 202115 min
The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941
An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20211 min
Happy Victory Day
Happy Victory Day! May 9th, 1945 was Victory Day in the USSR when the Soviets officially accepted the surrender of Germany after years of...
Michael Laxer
Apr 1, 20214 min
15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City
With two bonus views. Text translated from the Russian. The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent and storied port in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20211 min
Daily LIFT #409
The Barrow of Glory, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #409 Located 21 kilometers outside of Minsk on the Moscow Highway, the Barrow of Glory was...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20211 min
Mostar liberated from the Nazis, February 14, 1945
8th Yugoslav Partisans' Corps marches through Mostar after liberating it, February 1945 On February 14, 1945 the city of Mostar was...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20211 min
Sacrifice at Krasnodon - February 9, 1943
Monument to the Young Guards in Krasnodon -- erected in the Ukrainian SSR, 1954 On February 9, 1943, five heroic leaders and partisans of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20212 min
Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20217 min
Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943
Decisive moment in the victory at Stalingrad. On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20201 min
Nadezhda Popova, b. December 27, 1921
Hero of the Soviet Union, Ace Pilot and and Night Bomber. Hero of the Soviet Union, Nadezhda Popova, ace pilot and and night bomber was...
Michael Laxer
Nov 29, 20201 min
"You can't hang us all. They will avenge me."
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, murdered November 29, 1941 "You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are 200 million of us. You can't hang us...
Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20201 min
Daily LIFT #334
Red Army troops fight to retake the city of Rostov-on-Don, November 27, 1941 -- Daily LIFT #334 On November 27, 1941 the Red Army's 37th...
Michael Laxer
Nov 13, 20201 min
Daily LIFT #324
T-34 Tank Monument in Honour of the Mongolian Revolutionary Tank Brigade, Ulan Bator 1976 -- Daily LIFT #324 The 112th "Revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20201 min
Daily LIFT #321
Red Army troops march through Red Square on the 24th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 7, 1941 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20201 min
"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev"
"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev, the capital of Soviet Ukraine" - quote from a...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20202 min
The Fall of the Reichstag: An eyewitness Red Army account
Written 20 years after the end of the war, this is a thrilling eyewitness account of the battle for the Reichstag in the final days of...
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