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Daily LIFT #992
Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...
Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20231 min read


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 17, 20231 min read


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 15, 20232 min read


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
Jul 3, 20232 min read


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
Jun 22, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
May 30, 20231 min read


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 19, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #937
Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20231 min read


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, 20237 min read


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 9, 20235 min read


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
May 8, 20231 min read


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
Apr 24, 20231 min read


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
Mar 13, 20231 min read


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
Feb 2, 20231 min read


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
Jan 26, 20231 min read


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 19, 20221 min read


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
Dec 17, 20221 min read


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
Nov 15, 20223 min read


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
Sep 17, 20223 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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