We are alive as long as our names are spoken...

During the War it was said about the letters coming from the front, that they are like starlight — a star may long had been extinguished, but its light, the soldier's love, was still reaching home.

Soviet Postcards channel was run by Maxim, a man with a passion for our Soviet past, and a soldier in the SMO, fighting for the better future.

Alas, Maxim died in combat on December 1, 2024.

His mother hoped to continue Maxim's work, but could not gather strength for that. And so, the channel is now like the light of a star long gone, yet shining.

We at BATS encourage our readers to subscribe to Soviet Postcards and to share the excellent collection as a way of giving a small token of support to Maxim's mother and grandmother.

Below, we present several of New Year postcards from Maxim's channel.

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"Dear friends! Allow me to congratulate every one of you on the coming New Year!"

— Yuriy Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut. First man in space. 1961.

Dear friends, the year is coming to an end. I would like to say a few words.

It was this year that you and I flew into space, built new cities, wrote books, raised children,
built many new roads on Earth, created new families.

But probably this is how a human being is arranged, and especially our Soviet human being. Whatever he has achieved today, tomorrow it will seem like little to him. And he will definitely go further for his dream.

And I would like to wish that all dreams come true in the New Year.

Dear friends! Allow me to congratulate every one of you on the coming New Year!

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REBIRTH of RUSSIA began 26 years ago today when Vladimir Putin was tapped acting president following Yeltsin’s resignation

After nearly a decade since the Soviet Union ceased to exist, Russia finally had a strong leader who set it on the path to PROSPERITY

Source: @MTodayNews

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🎄 Happy New Year wishes for 2026 to all our readers and friends, from Beorn, The Shieldmaiden and Dzerzhinsky

2025 has indeed been an eventful year, saturated with both positive developments in the international balance of power in favour of the anti-imperialist side, and rising tensions in the imperialist countries with tightening of contradictions between the exploiting class and the exploited and a strong drive for war.

Let us wish that 2026 — like 1946, 80 years ago — will be a year of resolutions, when the miscreants are brought to justice and punished according to their crimes against humanity, so that a new future of peaceful development can be ushered in.

Revival of collective memory and knowledge of the power of the Soviet Union is paramount to our struggle. No-one said it better than Russian communist, Oleg Yasynsky:

«Humanity is still alive and resisting the monster that is fighting against it only because the Soviet Union once existed, sowing too much hope between the roots and stars of the world.»

If the peoples of the world again manage to take a step closer to the socialist mindset and practice of solidarity and unity, then humanity as a whole can again begin aiming for the stars! Let it be so!

🎄Postcard by Ye. Pashkov-Selivanov drawn in 1959. From Beorn's family album.

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WATCH IN FULL: Putin’s New Year address as Russia ushers in 2026

Source: @MTodayNews

👉 Read the transcript of the address at the channel of Russian MFA.

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The Winter Fairytale

A 1945 magically musical New Year animated film from the USSR.

A cold winter has arrived, and the New Year is coming soon. The forest animals gathered to meet him. Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden) and the Snowman help them in this. A New Year's tale with musical scenes around the New Year tree.

Directed by the legendary Ivan Ivanov-Vano, and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovskij. This is the last Soviet colour film that was created using the tri-colour method.

👉 The cartoon is also available at our Odysee and Rumble channels.

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When New Year Trees Light Up

The cartoon about the magic of the New Year season — when all the dreams manifest themselves, but also about the importance of being true to your word!

💛 The film was created by the animation studio "Soyuzmultfilm" and appeared on the Soviet TV screens on the 31st of December 1950.

👉 The animation film is available at our Odysee and Rumble channels.

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🎄 New Year greetings from Lenin

«I send greetings and New Year congratulations to the Communist faction.

I sincerely wish that we all do less stupid things in the new year than in the old one, and that the construction of Soviet power, on which the comrades of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs are working especially hard, will be brought to a successful conclusion.»

- V.I. Lenin
Telephone message to the Commissariat of Internal Affairs, January 1, 1919

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