We buy and sell old vintage propaganda from Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and more. Such as posters, art, paintings, medal’s, sculptures, desktops and much more.
You can contact us on Propagandaworld@hotmail.com
Price: 0.50 euro
Matchbox label set from the Ukraine. Made late 50’s, early 60’s. The text on the labels reads:”Festival”.
(R97.5.20)
Price: 117.00
Size: 35.5cm./13.9inch.
Weight: 1063gr./37.4oz.
Herend porcelain Socialist worker Hungary. What a fantastic vintage statue. Made by one of the world’s best porcelain manufacturers. Mark Herend First Class Blue shield is on the bottom and also an incised “HEREND” mark. Model No. 5819.
(17.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Weight: 39gr./1.5oz.
Unique modern Propagandaworld watch with the image of Karl Marx! The watch has got a old look but runs on a battery.
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university.
Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writing.
His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx’s political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history.
(37.63.20)
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 21.5x15cm./8.4×5.9inch.
Weight: 1000gr./35.2oz.
Chinese family photo book.
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Weight: 51gr./1.7oz.
Pages: 31
Dutch magazine (Netherland-USSR) 31st. volume november 1978. On the cover it reads:”60 Years of Komsomol”.
The Netherlands-USSR Association, founded in 1947, aimed to interest a wide audience in Russian culture. The Association showed Russian films and propaganda meetings with Russian music. The Association also organized group trips to Russia, and from 1954 it was possible to bring Russian artists to the Netherlands. The Association was viewed in a very negative light by the Dutch government, which was very wary of everything that came from Russia.
Wim Hulst first worked there as secretary and from 1967 to 1989 as chairman; Hulst was also director of Vernu, the travel agency of the Dutch-USSR Association for a long time. The association also published a monthly magazine and organized trips to the Soviet Union.
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9oz.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Pages: 14
Book from North Korea, 1974, written by Kim Il Sung. The eternal leader of North Korea.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from Czechoslovakia made in 1959. It is made to commemorate the Slovak National Uprising in 1944.
The Slovak National Uprising was a military uprising in Slovakia in the year 1944. Parts of the Slovakian army in central Slovakia revolted against the authoritarian Slovak regime and the Slovak People’s Party under the command of a secret Slovak National Council. The uprising lasted from August 29 to October 28, 1944 when the insurgents had to give up the fight against the German Wehrmacht. Locally, partisans managed to continue the fight until the Red Army occupied all of Slovakia in April 1945.
The aim of the Slovak uprising was to clear the Red Army’s advance route via Slovakia to Vienna. At the start of the uprising, Slovakia as Germany’s ally was not yet occupied.
The total number of victims on the Slovak side is estimated at over 10,000. The leaders of the revolt, Rudolf Viest and Ján Golian, were rounded up by the Germans and killed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in early 1945.
Price: 2.50 euro.
Rectangular 7.8×5.3cm./3.07×2.09inch.
Weight: 25gr./1oz.
Soviet Union propaganda fridge magnet. Only available on Propagandaworld. This Soviet space magnet reads:”Be proud Soviet man. You opend the way to the stars!”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Army uniform epaulet from the DDR.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the monument “The Bronze Horseman”.
The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
Price: 0.40 euro
4 stamps from North Korea made in 1990, featuring insects.
(0.5.20)
Price: 2.00 euro
FDC envelope issued in 1974 and used. The text on the envelope reads:”Air. Moscow. Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics named after M.V. Frunze, 1924″.
This museum was inaugurated on November 6th, 1924 and it was specified that the Museum should be the laboratory not only for the popular knowledge, but also for the study of aviation and aeronautics. M. V. Frunze was a bolshevik leader during the October Revolution in 1917.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 28x20cm./11×7.8inch.
Hungarian reproduction poster made late 1980’s. Lake Balaton is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of the region’s foremost tourist destinations.
(17.5.20)
(10.20)
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 15x12cm./5.9×4.7inch.
Weight: 266gr./9.3oz.
Table medal from the DDR. The text on the medal says:”Border troops of the DDR”. The medal is showing a map of East Germany and a hand holding a rifle. The medal is made of porcelain and still in it’s original box.
Price: 0.50 euro
2 Soviet matchbox labels. One with a light blue background and the other with a white background. The text on the labels reads:”Festival”. In good condition.
(12.8.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Weight: 62gr./2.1oz.
Modern watch with the image of Nixon. Newly made. Runs with battery. This is just a crazy watch to have and wear!
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 65x44cm./25.5×17.3inch.
Pages: 4
Special edition/appendix wich came with the communist dutch newspaper De Waarheid (Pravda in Russian, meaning The Truth) to celebrate the 60th. birthday of the CPN (Communist Party Netherlands) in 1979.
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9oz.
Weight: 43gr./1.5oz.
Pages: 16
Book from North Korea, 1974, written by Kim Il Sung. The eternal leader of North Korea.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
Price: 2.50 euro.
Rectangular 7.8×5.3cm./3.07×2.09inch.
Weight: 25gr./1oz.
Soviet Union propaganda fridge magnet. Only available on Propagandaworld. The magnet reads:”Young Leningraders!”, and at the bottom:”Be active participants in the gasification of leningrad!”.
Price: 2.00 euro
Army uniform epaulet from the DDR.
(R.17.5.20)
Price: 21.00 euro
Size box: 8.8×8.8cm./3.4×3.4inch.
Size medal: 7.5cm./2.9inch.
Weight: 104gr./3.6oz.
Table medal from Belarus. The medal reads:”Minsk, City Of Heroes”. On the front of the medal there is an obelisk with an eternal flame and above it the highest military decoration. In transparent box with red insert for token.
On the back of the Soviet Union Soviet decoration medal “Hero of the Soviet Union”. Everything is in very good condition. Medal looks like aluminum with a brass layer.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is showing the ship wich stands on top of the Admiralty building in St. petersburg.
The Admiralty is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy in St. Petersburg, Russia and the current headquarters of the Russian Navy. The edifice was rebuilt in the nineteenth century to support the Tsar’s maritime ambitions. Located at the western end of the Nevsky Prospekt, The Admiralty with its gilded spire topped by a golden weather-vane in the shape of a small sail warship (Korablik), is one of the city’s most conspicuous landmarks and the focal point of old St. Petersburg’s three main streets underscoring the importance Peter I placed on Russia’s Navy.
(R.54.5.20)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch.
Weight: 390gr./13.7oz.
DDR desktop with the Oerlikon Mosquito Anti Tank Missile made in 1960. Relationship gift and not made in large numbers. This very well could be the only one survived. Heavy chromed rocket made of non-magnetic metal.
The Mosquito was an Italian wire-guided anti-tank missile developed by the Swiss firm Contraves AG in close cooperation with the German firm of Bölkow.
Price: 0.50 euro
Size: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch.
Minisheet made for the 1990 rally for peace and reunification of Korea. Stamped.
(R.19.5.20)
Price: 24.00 euro
Size box: 11.8×11.8cm./4.6×4.6inch.
Size medal: 8cm./3.1inch.
Weight: 192gr./6.7oz.
Table medal to commemorate the liberation of Tallinn Estonia. The plaque is in a piece of hard wood in it’s original box. The Attacking Soviet Army can be seen at the front, with “1941-1945” underneath. Made in 1984.
During World War II, Estonia was first occupied by the Red Army and annexed into the USSR in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. When German forces invaded there were about 1,000 remaining Jews in the city of Tallinn, nearly all of whom would die in the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis before the war’s end. After the German retreat in 1944, the city was occupied again by the Soviets. After the annexation of Estonia into the USSR, Tallinn became formally “the capital city” of the Estonian SSR within the Soviet Union.
Price: 3.00
Original postcard from North Korea.
(R.19.5.20)
Price 24.00 euro
Size Box: 13.8×13.8cm./5.4×5.4inch.
Size Medal: 9.2cm./3.6inch.
Weight: 447gr./15.7oz.
Bronze table medal 1898-1973 mars uprising with flag and star. Hungarian Transport Workers’ Union 75 Years still in it’s original box.
Plaque comes in a kind of velvet box with gold along the edges. Inside lined with kind of red satin.
The back of the medal reads:”Transport and transportation workers. The existence of the trade union anniversary”.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 28x20cm./11×7.8inch.
Hungarian reproduction poster made late 1980’s. The text on the poster reads:”Every Piece Of Succes”.
(R.18.5.20)
Price: 22.50 euro
Size Box: 13.3×13.3cm./5.2×5.2inch.
Size Medal: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Weight: 186gr./6.5oz.
Table medal Hungary released in 1968 in honor of 50 years of the Hungarian Communist Party. Made of aluminium.
(10.20)
(4.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 85gr./2.9oz.
Table medal from the DDR in it’s original box. The front of the medal reads:”Securing The State Border” and the back reads:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
(R.17.5.20)
Price: 21.00 euro
Size: 10.5cm./4.1oz.
Weight: 195gr./6.8oz.
Medal issued by the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. The front of the medal reads:”Effective Propaganda Work”. The paper reads:”On the anniversary of Lenin’s birthday. County Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party”.
Price: 0.25 euro
On this matchbox label the Tsimlyanskaya power station is shown. The Tsimlyanskaya HPP, being the only hydroelectric station on the Don River, is at the same time a key part of the Volga-Don waterway. It is located in the Rostov region, not far from the cities of Volgodonsk and Tsimlyansk, which were formed only due to the appearance of a power station.
The decision to build the Volga-Don waterway and its member Tsimlyanskaya HPP was approved by a decree of the Soviet government on February 27, 1948. Construction immediately declared “the great construction of communism.” The planned commissioning of the station was scheduled for 1953.
(R.54.5.20)
Price: 65.50 euro
Size: 16.5x12cm./6.4×4.7inch.
Weight: 308gr./10.8oz.
Heavy Hungarian bronze flag point Elöre = Forward 1919-1971.
Flag point of Bronze star. Flag with Elöre on one side, on the other 1919 – 1971.
(6.20)
(1.20)
Price: 6.00 euro
Size: 7x5cm./2.7×1.9inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Medal that came in 3 issues. Gold, silver and bronze. This is the “Gold” issue. The text on the medal reads:”Badge Of Honor”” and beneath that:”For Excellent Work In Socialistic Education”. In it’s original box.
(R.15.5.20)
Price: 19.00 euro
Size Box: 13x13cm./5.1×5.1inch.
Size Medal: 8cm./3.1inch.
Weight: 292gr./10.3oz.
Table medal from a unknown country. Beautiful stylistic made.
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 22x13cm./8.6×5.1inch.
Weight: 20gr./0.71oz.
Pages: 8
Transcript of a speech from Henk Hoekstra (Communist Party Netherlands) in parlement 1977. Around that time there were several hostage situations from the Moluccan community in The Netherlands. Demanding there own Moluccan state within Indonesia. Because Indonesia was a former colony from the Netherlands there was a huge Moluccan community present.
(R.47.5.20)
Price: 57.00 euro
Size: 50x29cm./19.6×11.4inch.
Weight: 1236gr./43.6oz.
Beautiful very rare Lenin tray. Asymmetrical. What a shape, ticks all the boxes: Red, Enamel, Lenin, Star, Vintage.
Beautiful with a set of Soviet tea glasses or other items.
(10.20)
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9oz.
Weight: 49gr./1.7oz.
Pages: 24
Book from North Korea, 1973, written by Kim Il Sung. The eternal leader of North Korea.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
(R.23.20)
Price: 27.60 euro
Size: 12.5×10.5cm./4.9×4.1inch.
Weight: 256gr./9oz.
Vintage image of Marx with an iron bracket on the back to hang it on
Worked up high nicely.
(0.4.20)
Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 7gr./0.2oz.
Old folder from the Pegasus publisher in Amsterdam. Made around 1980. The text on the folder reads:”Books that should not be missing on the shelf of a progressive person”.
Pegasus was the publishing house of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), based in Amsterdam where it also had a bookshop. At that time, among other things, most of the major works of Marx, Engels and Lenin were published, and the official History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Nowadays, the publisher annex bookshop mainly focuses on Slavic studies (dictionaries, teaching aids, etc.) and literature and reading material from Eastern Europe.
(R.26.20)
Price: 31.00 euro
Size: 10.8cm./4.2inch.
Weight: 260gr./9.1oz.
Thick and heavy tabe medal from Hungary. On the front there is anti aircraft guns together with a search light. The meda is signatured by the artist. On the back there is the text:”Nagykanizsa” wich is a town in Hungary. The building in the backgroud is the railway station.
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 54gr./1.9oz.
Pages: 31
Book from North Korea, 1973, written by Kim Il Sung. The eternal leader of North Korea.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
(R.18.20)
Price: 22.00 euro
Size: 7.5cm./2.9inch.
Weight: 260gr./9.1oz.
Table medal from Hungary cold war era. On the front of the medal an armour vehicle can been seen along with some sodiers. On the back the text reads:”Hungarian People ‘s Army 4127″ and “Kiskunfélegyháza”. Kiskunfélegyháza is a town in Hungary.
Price: 2.00 euro
Army uniform epaulet from the DDR.
(R.16.20)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 15cm./5.9inch.
Weight: 257gr./9oz.
Statue of a Partisan holding a PSSh machine gun. Made of solid aluminium. In very good condition.
The Yugoslav Partisans, was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers during World War II. It is considered to be Europe’s most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II, often compared to the Polish resistance movement.
The resistance was led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.Its commander was Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin made for Victory Day. Victory Day is a holiday for commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. The text on the pin reads:”Victory Day. 9 May”.
(R.24.5.20)
Price: 29.50 euro
Size box: 16x11cm./6.2×4.3inch.
Size shield: 9.5×8.5cm./3.7×3.3inch.
Weight: 381gr./13.4oz.
China public security desktop. On the desktop it written:”Public Security of the People’s Republic of China“
The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China is the main police and security authority of the People’s Republic of China and the government ministry that oversees and has ultimate responsibility for day-to-day law enforcement.
Price: 0.75 euro
Strip of 4 stamps from North Korea. Made in 1990. Stamped.
(R.12.5.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 18.8cm./7.4inch.
Weight: 500gr./17.6oz.
Wall sign DDR. Made oftThick and heavy copper. The text along the edge reads:”Berlin Capital of the DDR, Downtown”. The iconic transmission tower can be seen in the center. Equipped with an eye on the back to hang it up.
Price: 3.00 euro
Original postcard from North Korea.
(R.29.5.20)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 6×3.5cm./2.3×1.3inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.17oz.
Soviet Union christmas ornament. Made somewhere in the 60’s and very fragile. Amazing that it survived over so many years. With the original paint.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 28x20cm./11×7.8inch.
Reproduction poster from Hungary. Made late 1980’s.
(15.20)
(R.15.20)
Price: 18.00 euro
Size: 9.5x3cm./3.7×1.1inch.
Weight: 15gr./0.5oz.
An astronaut as a Soviet Union christmas ornament. In very good condition.
(1.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 9×5.5cm./3.5×2.1inch.
Weight: 50gr./1.7oz.
Silver medal from the DDR for 20 years of service as a volunteer firefighter. This medal came in 4 classes:
Bronze 10 years of service
Silver 20 years of service
Gold 30 years of service
Gold with clasp 40 years of service
(22.5.20)
(R.22.5.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 5.5×3.5cm./2.1×1.3inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.17oz.
Very old, delicate and fragile Sputnik christmass ball from the Soviet Union. It’s amazing that this Sputnik ball survived this many years without breaking one of the tips off. Painted on the ball are the letters:”CCCP” and a red star.
Price: 2.50 euro.
Rectangular 7.8×5.3cm./3.07×2.09inch.
Weight: 25gr./1oz.
Unique fridgemagnet only available at Propagandaworld. Soviet Union propaganda. The text on the magnet reads:”If tomorrow is war…”.
(R.65.20)
Price: 78.00 euro
Hungarian uniform Little Drummer communist youth movement. The outfit is from 1980 and never worn, hung in a store and stored after the fall of the Soviet Union until now!
Little Drummers: The first phase of the communist youth movement was to become a Little Drummer.
Children wore a uniform with a blue scarf, a white shirt and blue pants or skirt. Their code consisted of six points:
1. A Little Drummer is loyal to his country
2. A Little Drummer respects his parents, teachers and friends
3. A Little Drummer studies and works hard and helps his friends
4. A Little Drummer speaks and behaves fairly
5. A Little Drummer sports and takes care of his health
6. A Little Drummer lives in a way that does justice to his pioneer scarf.
Price: 0.25 euro
Belarus matchbox label with the image of Brest Fortress. The text on the label reads:”Brest Fortress” and at the bottom:”Ruins Of Terespol Gate”.
The fortress is located in Brest, Belarus. The fortress is a 19th. century Russian fortress. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the Fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of the German Soviet War, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
On June 22, 1941 the German Wehrmacht attacked the Brest fortress with no warning. The attack started with an artillery barrage. The defenders were taken by surprise and initially failed to form a solid front. By 09:00 that day, the fortress was completely surrounded. The ensuing battle of Brest Fortress lasted for 32 days, during which lives lost about 2000 soldiers and officers defending the castle, and attackers losing nearly 430 soldiers and officers.
The last defended object in the fortress was taken by June 29. About 6,800 Soviet soldiers and commanders were captured. According to Soviet sources, the battle lasted until 20 July, with no one surrendering to the Germans. This narrative became a testament to the resilience and courage of Red Army and Soviet people. A few Soviet soldiers did indeed hold out inside pockets of the fortress until as late as 23 July.
In the late 1960s, the construction of the war memorial complex “Brest Hero Fortress” was started. The complex was opened on September 25, 1971. The memorial complex is a national place of grief and pride, a popular tourist attraction.
This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on January 30, 2004.
(R.24.20)
Price: 29.00 euro
Weight all: 119gr./4.1oz.
15 bicycle plates from the USSR and Eastern Bloc country’s. They are made of metal, aluminum and brass. They are used so they have age related damage, scratches, dents, stains, etc.
(12.8.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Weight: 62gr./2.1oz.
Watch with the image of Leila Khaled. The watch runs on battery, wich is included. Khaled (born 1944) came to public attention for her role in hijackings in 1969 and 1970 as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan. The first woman to hijack an airplane.
TWA Flight 840 (1969)
In 1969, Khaled was part of a team that hijacked TWA Flight 840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. No one was injured, but after the passengers disembarked, the hijackers blew up the nose section of the aircraft. After this hijacking, and a photograph of her (taken by Eddie Adams) holding an AK-47 rifle and wearing a kaffiyeh was reproduced in many publications, she underwent six plastic surgery operations on her nose and chin to conceal her identity.
El Al Flight 219 (1970)
In 1970, Khaled and Patrick Argüello attempted to hijack El Al Flight 219. The attack failed when Israeli skymarshals killed Argüello and overpowerred Khaled.
The pilot diverted the aircraft to Heathrow Airport in London, where Khaled was delivered to Ealing police station. On October 1, the British government released her in exchange for hostages taken in a further hijacking.
(R.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 13.2×7.5cm./5.1×2.9inch.
Weight: 98gr./3.4oz.
Soviet Union ship that stands on a wooden base that is stamped under Russian. Made in the Cold War era. Text bottom right is made of plastic, just like the ship and reads:”Odessa”.
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 29.5x21cm./11.6×8.2inch.
Weight: 62gr./2.1oz.
Pages: 12
Newspaper clippings collected in booklet with staples. These articles were collected by the CPN (Communistic Party Netherlands) in 1979. Due to government cuts there were large scale strikes in The Netherlands in 1978/1979. Out of disstatisfaction with the coverage in the established newspapers the CPN collected some of these articles and some articles of communistic newspaper “The Waarheid” (In Russian “Pravda”) who was on the side of the strikers.
(R.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 7cm./2.7inch.
Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 102gr./3.5oz.
Table medal from the Soviet Union made in 1977. To commemorate the October Revolution in 1917.
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 54gr./1.9oz.
Pages: 34
Book from North Korea, produced in 1972 and contains an interview from the Japanese magazine Sekai with Kim Il Sung.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
(R.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size medal: 5cm./1.9inch.
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Weight: 150gr./5.2oz.
Bronze table medal Congress de L’oij Moscow 1981. 27th International Geological Congress. Commemorative medal in original box.
Price: 15.00 euro
Epaulettes from the DDR from somebody in the army with the rank of Major.
(R.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size Medal: 4.5cm./1.7inch.
Size Box: 9.5×7.5cm./3.7×2.9inch.
Weight: 82gr./2.8oz.
Oekrainian table medal in it’s original box. The front and the back of the medal reads:”Lviv Railways”.
Lviv-Holovnyi railway station is the main railway terminal in Lviv, Ukraine. It is one of the most notable pieces of Art Nouveau architecture in former Galicia. The station was opened to the public in 1904, and celebrated its centennial anniversary on 26 March 2004. On a monthly basis, the terminal handles over 1.2 million passengers and moves 16 thousand tons of freight.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin depict a monument at the site were Lenin stayed in a hut. The text on the bottom of the pin says:”Rasliv”, the area were Lenin stayed at the time.
In November 1917 a revolution in Russia (November Revolutuiion) ended the Tjarist reign over Russia. The new government considerd Lenin as a terrorist and he went into hiding. He lived secretly in a forest north of St. Petersburg disguised as a hayfarmer. He shaved his baird and wore a wig. In this period he wrote serveral articles for newspapers and recieved fresh fruit daily.
Also he worked on theoretical political works and prepared for the October Revolution. He lived in a hut made of branches. After Lenin’s death the hay hut was recreated on the site and also statues were placed and a museum. In the Soviet Era this site ha to be visited by students.
(R.15.20)
Price: 18.00 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 12gr./0.4oz.
Old storage box to commemorate 40 years of October Revolution. Made in 1957 and made of aluminium.
Price: 0.25 euro
Stamp from North Korea made for the Stamp Exhibition in New Zealand 1990.
(R.25.20)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 20x13cm./7.8×5.1inch.
Weight: 206gr./7.2oz.
Soviet Union storage box made of hard plastic. On the front there is the year of the October Revolution (1917) and the text:”Glory October!” on the top.
The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government.
As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
(10.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
North Korean propaganda postcardset of 5 postcards from 2017. Complete.
(R.44.20)
Price: 53.00 euro
Size: 50x19cm./19.6×7.4inch.
Weight: 667gr./23.5oz.
Large copper shield on a wooden plate. On the right the calvary of the Red Army, on the left a book with part of a poem and the name of the author. The name of the author is Demyan Bedny.
The first major work of Russian poetry, reflecting the historical events of 1917, was Demyan’s poetic novel “About the land, about the legacy, about the working share.” The lines that ended on it were written on the day of the armed uprising in October.
Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov, better known by his writer name Demyan Bedny, was a Soviet Russian poet, Bolshevik and satirist. Also in 1911, he published the poem “Of Demyan Bedny”, which led to him being known by that name, and began a private correspondence with Vladimir Lenin which was said to develop into a long-lasting personal friendship. He was a steadfast supporter of the Bolshevik cause throughout the Russian Revolution and Civil War, writing agitprop from the frontlines. For this he was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner in 1923, followed by the Order of Lenin in 1933. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was very popular and variously supported by the Soviet regime.
Bedny amassed one of the largest private libraries in the Soviet Union (over 30.000 volumes), from which Stalin was known to borrow books on occasion. His poem commemorating the Soviet victory on Nazi Germany was published in Pravda on May 3, 1945. Bedny died two weeks later, on May 19.
(47.5.20)
Price: 250.00 euro
Size: 76.5x54cm./30.1×21.2oz.
Partially handpainted poster from Vietnam. Made in the early 60’s. Ho Chi Minh looking over soldiers and a farmer collecting weed. The text on the posters reads:”A Well Fed Army Is A Strong Army” and at the bottom:”Eat Your Fill, Win Battles”.
The Ho Chi Minh figure is a lithograph and the rest is handpainted on top. They probably kept a masterprint and worked from there. Normally they would hang these kind of posters outside and not inside buildings and glue them on a billboard with no way to get it off again. Probably the artist who painted this poster kept a copy for himself making this a rare poster or it could be a sample piece. At some time the poster recieved some restaurations.
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and then its President from 1945 to 1969. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist, he served as Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Vietnam. He founded the Democratic Republiek Of Vietnam in 1945.
Any description of Ho Chi Minh’s life before he came to power in Vietnam is open for discussion. He is known to have used at least 50 and perhaps as many as 200 pseudonyms. Both his place and date of birth are subjects of academic debate since neither is known with certainty. At least four existing official biographies vary on names, dates, places and other hard facts while unofficial biographies vary even more widely.
He has got an iconic status for first beating the French in 1954 and for beating the United States and South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam war costs was between 600.000-1.6 million deaths on the North Vietnam side while South Vietnam suffered between 700.000 and 1 million deaths including almost 60,000 American lives.
With the outcome of the Vietnam War still in question, Ho Chi Minh died of heart failure at his home in Hanoi 1969; he was 79 years old. As almost all comunist country’s do, his embalmed body is currently on display in a mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi.
After the Vietnam War Saigon was renamed in Ho Chi Minh city in 1976.
(R.28.20)
Price: 34.00 euro
Size: 20.5x18cm./8x7inch.
Weight: 1846gr./65.1oz.
Myak crystal clock with red dial made by the Serdobsky Factory. Well-functioning clock in good condition. Runs very nicely.
(4.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 10.5cm./4.1inch.
Weight: 177gr./6.2oz.
DDR Medal with the image of Karl Marx with his original box. Within the box there is a paper wich reads:”For good performance in the DSF knowledge competition, 1976″.
The DSF was a German-Soviet Union friendship organisation.
(R.95.20)
Price: 114.00 euro
Size: 31x29cm./12.2×11.4inch.
Weight: 1100gr./38.8oz.
Stalin lamp. A wall lamp from Stalin’s time with a star under both lamp holders and a star with hammer and sickle on the wall plate. Made of aluminum and made in the 1950’s.
Price: 2.50 euro.
Rectangular 7.8×5.3cm./3.07×2.09inch.
Weight: 25gr./1oz.
Unique Hungarian propaganda fridge magnet, only available on Propagandaworld! The text on the magnet reads:”Now You Reap For Yourself. Hungarian Communist Party”.
(R.28.20)
Price: 34.00 euro
Size: 39.5×24.5cm./15.5×9.6inch.
Weight: 841gr./29.6oz.
Vintage Hongarian enamel militairy wall sign. On this thick sign the text reads:”Fire And Explosion Hazard!”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Old matchbox label made in end 50’s, early 60’s. On the label there is the Ukranian Pavilon at the permanent Bahx exhibition in Moscow (VDKN exhibition). This huge exhibition site contains dozens of buildings and there are millions of visitors each year. On the site there are some pavilons that are dedicated to certain regions and cities of the old USSR.
(R.32.20)
Price: 39.00 euro
Size: 26×14.5cm./10.2×5.7inch.
Weight: 205gr./7.2oz.
Old streetsign from the Soviet Union. After the collapse of communism these kind of signs were all removed. This one survived. The text on the sign reads:”Victory”. Offcourse about the victory the Soviets had against Nazi German. A used sign with rust and holes.
(32.5.20)
Price: 45.00 euro
Watch with the image of Stalin and a red star. In good working order.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his leadership.
(42.20)
(R.35.20)
Price: 42.00 euro
Size: 19.8×14.8cm./7.7×5.8inch.
Hungarian cold war streetsign with Karl Marx on it. After the end of communism these kind of signs were removed. This one survided.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
(2.5.20)
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 24.5x10cm./9.6×3.9inch.
Announcement about a CPN (Communistic Party Netherlands) for a congress and demonstration. The text on the cards reads:”Demonstration, Congress. For International Solidarity, For Defence Of The Standard Of Living, For Immediate Reduction Of Arms Expensives”. The card is made around 1980.
The Communist Party of the Netherlands was a Dutch communist party. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social-Democratic Party (SDP).
On May 15, 1940, immediately after the German occupation, the party decided to organize an underground movement. In July 1940 the Nazi occupation force banned the CPN. The party continued illegally. Together with the much smaller anti-Stalinist communist party RSAP the only pre-war organisation that already in 1940 protested against the anti-Semitic measures by the German occupiers. It published a resistance newspaper called De Waarheid (“The Truth”, in Russian: Pravda). Both took part in the February Strike in 1941, the largest act of resistance in the Netherlands.
In 1989 the party merged with three other small leftwing parties to form the GreenLeft. In 1991 disstatisfied members left and formed the New Communist Party wich still exist today.
(10.20)
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 40gr./1.4oz.
Pages: 18
Book from North Korea, produced in 1973 and written by Kim Il Sung, the eternal president.
This book once belonged to Andries Oele. Inside the book you’ll find the signature of him. Oele was a well-known and notorious radical Maoist in the 1970’s in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He always stood out by standing at the back of a hall at meetings and public gatherings (such as May 1 celebrations) and shouting his slogans (“Death to capital! Long live Marxism-Leninism! Long live Chairman Mao!”). While the many small communist splinter groups were happy with any soul they could recruit, they would rather lose Andries than get rich. Nevertheless he was a member of KORO (Communist Organization Rotterdam and Surroundings).
Andries Oele worked in construction so the left-wing intellectual Rotterdam got some appreciation for this: a real worker, after all.
In 1977 Oele was caught in bed with someone’s wife. Her deceived husband immediately took a gun and shot both Andries and his own wife. A double murder. A Dutch Maoist publisher was asked to clean out Oele’s house.
Behind the frontdoor he found a wonderful house that had been completely renovated as if it were a ship’s cabin. You had to duck to go inside and could look through portholes to other dark spaces. He collected all Oele’s books, almost entirely Marxist-Leninist works and works by old Dutch socialists, such as Troelstra and Domela Nieuwenhuis.
(R.59.20)
Price: 59.00 euro
Size: 39.5cm./15.5inch.
Weight: 1045gr./36.8oz.
Enamel Shield Slovak Bus Stop. Original and unpolished former Eastern Bloc bus stop sign. Shield is spherical.
(20.20)
Price: 26.00 euro
Size: 17.5cm./6.8inch.
Weight: 245gr./8.6oz.
Wallplate made in the Soviet Union to commemorate 45 year anniversary of the victory against Nazi Germany in WWII. Made in 1990. On the plate there is a image of the medal “Order Of The Patriotic War”.
(R.105.20)
Price: 126.00 euro
Size: 28.5cm./11.2oz.
Weight: 1280gr./45.1oz.
Lenin statue standing with hand in pocket and speech paper in the other hand. Statue is made of aluminum with bronze color. On the back of the pedestal a number, stamp and artist’s name.
Price: 1.50 euro
The image of this pin is the Decembrists Memorial Monument in St. Petersburg.
The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising, took place in Imperial Russia on 26 December 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Tsar Nicholas I. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists. As you figured. The experiences of the Napoleonic Wars and realisation of the suffering of peasant soldiers resulted in Decembrist officers and sympathisers being attracted to reform changes in society. They displayed their contempt of court by rejecting the court lifestyle, wearing their cavalry swords at balls (to indicate their unwillingness to dance), and committing themselves to academic study. These new practices captured the spirit of the times as a willingness by the Decembrists to embrace both the peasant and ongoing reform movements from intellectuals abroad.
There was a standoff at the Winterpalace between loyalist soldiers and the rebels. Later that day the rebels lost and most of them arrested. 5 rebels were executed and the rest went into exile to Siberia.
(R.105.20)
Price: 126.00 euro
Size: 45cm./17.7inch.
Weight: 3595gr./126.8oz.
Statue of Lenin made in the Soviet Union in 1973. Very big statue. Lenin has his dumb in his pocket en is holding a newspaper. The statue is singed with:”Y. Pommer”. This is artist Yuri Petrovich Pommer (1919-1991) and little is known about him.
Price: 0.50 euro
Size: 9x7cm./3.5×2.7inch.
Minisheet from North Korea made because of the stamp exhibition in Italy in 1990.
(126.20)
(R.105.20)
Price: 126.00 euro
Size: 36cm./14.1inch.
Weight: 1734gr./61.1oz.
Aluminium statue of Lenin made in the Soviet Union. A bit bigger as usual. Lenin is depicted in a casual way: walking and with his coat over his shoulder.
