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: 12.50 euro Size: 18.5x11cm./7.2×4.3inch. Weight: 243gr./8.5oz. Year: 1999 Pages: 281 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Book made in North Korea, 1999. Information about Korea with coverage of Nature, politics, national defence, the economy, culture, folk customs, religion, and tourism.
Price: 6.00 euro Size: 20×12.5cm./7.8×4.9inch. Weight: 100gr./3.5oz. Pages: 59 Year: 1968 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Book made in the Netherlands by the publisher Pegasus, 1968. The title of the book reads:”Catsro about revolution. The road of class struggle in Latin America”. The book is a speech held by Fidel Castro on the 1st. conference of the organisation of Latin American Solidarity (OLAS) on the 10th. of August 1967.
Price: 15.00 euro Size: 20×14.5cm./7.8×5.7inch. Weight: 602gr./21.2inch. Year: 1932 Pages: 561 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Book made in Germany, 1932. The text on the book reads:”Lenin Selected Works”. This is part 2 in a 12 parts series and is translated into 12 volumes from the Russian edition of the marx-engels-lenin institute in moscow. The title of this book is:”The new economic politic and the socialist construction” and made by the Publishing Cooperative of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size: 20×14.5cm./7.8×5.7inch. Weight: 657gr./23.1inch. Year: 1932 Pages: 607 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Book made in Germany, 1932. The text on the book reads:”Lenin Selected Works”. This is part 3 in a 12 parts series and is translated into 12 volumes from the Russian edition of the marx-engels-lenin institute in moscow. The title of this book is:”The new economic politic and the socialist construction” and made by the Publishing Cooperative of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size: 20×14.5cm./7.8×5.7inch. Weight: 607gr./21.4inch. Year: 1932 Pages: 424 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Book made in Germany, 1932. The text on the book reads:”Lenin Selected Works”. This is part 1 in a 12 parts series and is translated into 12 volumes from the Russian edition of the marx-engels-lenin institute in moscow. The title of this book is:”The new economic politic and the socialist construction” and made by the Publishing Cooperative of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow”.
Poster made in Germany in the cold war era. Boy and girl looking to eachother over the Berlin Wall. Presumably the poster was made around 1988. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. Founded in 1875.
Poster made in the Soviet Union, 1982, with the image of Leonid Brezhnev. Below is a quote from Brezhnev:”The core of economic policy is a matter that seems to be simple and very everyday. A masterly attitude towards the public good, the ability to fully, expediently use everything that we have”. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1982) was the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, he ruled the Soviet Union 1964 until his death in 1982. Ideologically, he was a Marxist-Leninist. After the October Revolution in 1917 led to the formation of a one party state led by the Communist Party, Brezhnev joined the party’s youth league, Komsomol, in 1923, and became an active party member by 1929. In WWII he joined the Red Army and held increasingly important political posts. After the war he rose steadily in the top ranks of the party, and became a protege of Joseph Stalin. In 1952 Brezhnev was promoted to the Central Committee and in 1957 to full member of the Politburo. In 1964 he ousted Nikita Khrushchev and took over as First Secretary of the CPSU, the most powerful position in the Kremlin.
Poster made in the Soviet Union. Made of carton paper. The original drawing was made in 1959. This is a reproduction from 1978. The drawing is called:”Christmas Tree at Sokolniki”. The drawing is made by N.N. Zhukov who also made the design of the famous Lenin as a child pin. Soviet artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1955), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), and winner of two Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943, 1951), member of the CPSU (b) since 1945, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). A large part of the artist’s work is devoted to the life and work of Lenin, Stalin, and the Great Patriotic War. Author of dozens of posters, many of which are marked with the “Grand Prix” at the All-Union and international exhibitions of poster. After the war, the newspaper “Pravda” sent their correspondent Zhukov to The Nuremberg trials, where the International Military Tribunal tried the Nazi war criminals. There he made more than 400 drawings.
Poster made in the Soviet Union. Made of carton paper. Lenin with children and a christmas tree. This is a reproduction from 1978. The drawing is made by N.N. Zhukov who also made the design of the famous Lenin as a child pin. Soviet artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1955), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), and winner of two Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943, 1951), member of the CPSU (b) since 1945, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). A large part of the artist’s work is devoted to the life and work of Lenin, Stalin, and the Great Patriotic War. Author of dozens of posters, many of which are marked with the “Grand Prix” at the All-Union and international exhibitions of poster. After the war, the newspaper “Pravda” sent their correspondent Zhukov to The Nuremberg trials, where the International Military Tribunal tried the Nazi war criminals. There he made more than 400 drawings.
Poster made in the Soviet Union. Made of carton paper. Lenin playing with children. This is a reproduction from 1978. The drawing is made by N.N. Zhukov who also made the design of the famous Lenin as a child pin. Soviet artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1955), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), and winner of two Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943, 1951), member of the CPSU (b) since 1945, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). A large part of the artist’s work is devoted to the life and work of Lenin, Stalin, and the Great Patriotic War. Author of dozens of posters, many of which are marked with the “Grand Prix” at the All-Union and international exhibitions of poster. After the war, the newspaper “Pravda” sent their correspondent Zhukov to The Nuremberg trials, where the International Military Tribunal tried the Nazi war criminals. There he made more than 400 drawings.
Poster made in the Soviet Union. Made of carton paper. Lenin with a child showing a toy. The original drawing was made in 1959. This is a reproduction from 1978. The drawing is made by N.N. Zhukov who also made the design of the famous Lenin as a child pin. Soviet artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1955), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), and winner of two Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943, 1951), member of the CPSU (b) since 1945, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). A large part of the artist’s work is devoted to the life and work of Lenin, Stalin, and the Great Patriotic War. Author of dozens of posters, many of which are marked with the “Grand Prix” at the All-Union and international exhibitions of poster. After the war, the newspaper “Pravda” sent their correspondent Zhukov to The Nuremberg trials, where the International Military Tribunal tried the Nazi war criminals. There he made more than 400 drawings.
Carpet from Turkey with the portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In good condition. On the top right corner is a little rip wich easily can be made. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.
Price: 25.00 euro Map size: 43x32cm./16.9×12.5inch. Photo’s size: 40x30cm./15.7×11.8inch. Weight: 680gr./23.9oz. Year: 1985 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Beautiful photobook from Czechoslovakia made in 1985. The photo’s are original on glossy paper. The text on the map reads:”1945-1985 Political Poster. Against Fascism And War, For Peace And Socialism”. Contains 30 photo’s.
Wallpiece made in the DDR. Wooden plate with thin copper plaque on it. The image on the copper is the Sachsenhausen memorial tower. The tower is 35-40 (114-131 feet) meters tall and in front is a scultpute by René Graetz, made in 1961. The triangular prisoner’s badge is the dominant symbol on this triangular pylon with slightly concave sides. Sachsenhausen was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin’s oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Paul Reynaud, the penultimate Prime Minister of France, Francisco Largo Caballero, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, the wife and children of the Crown Prince of Bavaria, Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents. Sachsenhausen was a labor camp, outfitted with several subcamps, a gas chamber, and a medical experimentation area. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone. About 100.000 people were killed in the camp. Today, Sachsenhausen is open to the public as a memorial.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward”. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
Price: 10.00 euro Size: 23x16cm./9×6.2inch. Weight: 20gr./0.7oz. Year: 1986 For sale at http://www.propgandaworld.org
DDR pennant made in 1986 for the 20th. anniversary. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward 1956-1986”. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward”, and on the back:”Combat Course 77, Always alert, strong in battle, and ready for battle”. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward! Pasewalk”. Pasewalk is a small town in Germany. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
Price: 12.50 euro Size: 16.5x14cm./6.4×5.5inch. Weight: 9gr./0.3oz. Year: 1970 For sale at http://www.propgandaworld.org
DDR pennant made in 1970. The front of the pennant reads:”5th. Sports Festival Army Friendship”, and on the back:”25t. anniversary of the liberation May 1970″. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward! Leipzig”, and on the back:”Soccer Section”. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward! Leipzig”. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward! Strausberg”. Strausberg was a city in the DDR. Starus meaning ostrich. This pennant comes in 2 different sizes. 36.5cm./14.3inch. and 20cm./7.8inch. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
DDR pennant. The front of the pennant reads:”Army Sports Community, Forward!”. This pennant comes in 3 different sizes. 32.5cm./12.7inch., 24cm./9.4inch. and 19.5cm./7.6inch. The Army Sports Association Forwards, briefly ASV forward, whas the sport organization of the German Democratic Republic’s National People’s Army (NVA) and its predecessor, The Barracked People’s Police (barracked folk police). In the almost every city with barracks or other army installations the ASV kept a training center. Apart from providing the training equipment, the most important task of the local sections was the promotion of youth sports. The uniform ASV tracksuit, brown polyamide with yellow and red stripes on the arms and the oval ASV emblem on the left chest, attained a big very cult status amongst youth after the German reunification.
Price: 10.00 euro Size: 24x17cm./9.4×6.6inch. Weight: 24gr./0.8oz. Year: 1983 For sale at http://www.propgandaworld.org
DDR pennant made in 1983. The text on the front of the pennant reads:”Best Company”, and on the back:”VVB cool and stock management”. The Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) was a legal form in the economy of the DDR. VVB emerged with the introduction and gradual development of the socialist planned economy in the Soviet occupation zone and later DDR from 1948.
Beautiful Hungarian socialist art. Woman with flowers and watering can and signature. Made by Gránit. The statue has age related crackle and is damage free. Made of porcelain.
Bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix). Made of plastic with a bronze layer on it. Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), nicknamed “Iron Felix”, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the KGB. Dzerzhinsky spent four and a half years in tsarist prisons. Dzerzhinsky was beaten frequently by the Russian prison guards, which caused the permanent disfigurement of his jaw and mouth. In 1916, Dzerzhinsky was moved to the Moscow Butyrka prison, where he was soon hospitalized because the chains that he was forced to wear had caused severe cramps in his legs. Despite the prospects of amputation, Dzerzhinsky recovered and was put to labor sewing military uniforms. Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from prison after the February Revolution of 1917. Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats known as Cheka. The Cheka undertook drastic measures as thousands of political opponents and saboteurs were eliminated. Besides his leadership of the secret police, Dzerzhinsky also took on a number of other roles; he led the fight against typhus in 1918, was chair of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1923, initiated a vast orphanage construction program, chaired the Transport Commissariat, organised the embalming of Lenin’s body in 1924 and chaired the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema. A 15-ton iron monument of Dzerzhinsky, which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters, also became known as Iron Felix.
Price: 28.00 euro Size box: 9cm./3.5inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 136gr./4.7oz. Year: 1971 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal from Czechoslovakia made in 1971. For celebrating 20 years of border patrol. The text on the medal reads:”Border Guards CSSR 1951-1971″. Made of bronze.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The text on the front reads:”Moscow”. Bronze Commemorative Medal. At the front a tough man laying bricks at the Kremlin. On the back the Kremlin with an image of a bronze statue.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The text on the medal reads:”Alexey Victorovich Shchusev Architect Academician 1873-1949″. Shchusev was the designer of the Lenin Mausoleum. Alexey Victorovich Shchusev (1873-1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture, Art Nouveau (broadly construed), Constructivism, and Stalinist architecture, being one of the few Russian architects to be celebrated under both the Romanovs and the communists, becoming the most decorated architect in terms of Stalin prizes awarded. On the night of 22–23 January 1924, Shchusev was summoned to the Kremlin to receive the most important commission of his life, the design of the Lenin Mausoleum. The reasons for choosing Shchusev remain unknown. Dmitry Chmelnizki speculates that, regardless of Shchusev’s conservative planning policies, he had already become “the architect closest to the Communist Party elite”. The first, temporary, wooden mausoleum was designed overnight and erected in three days, at temperatures reaching -30 °C. Due to a lack of time and resources, Shchusev’s original proposal was scaled down to a bare minimum. The resulting makeshift hut was too small for its intended role as a communist shrine; thus in March 1924 Shchusev was commanded to design and build a larger temporary structure that could also function as a tribune for the use of government officials. The second wooden mausoleum was built in April and opened to visitors in August 1924. Five years later, the government decided that the concept “had passed the test of time”, and awarded Shchusev a contract to design a third, permanent mausoleum.
Record box made in the DDR, 1967, for the 30th. anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia, 1917. The box contains 9 books each with 2 records with songs by Ernst Busch. Busch is famous for singing workers and socialists songs. Some years ago this box was offered by the Rotes Antiquariat in Germany. According to their information this box was once owned by Hans Modrow, the last leader of the DDR. Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch (1900-1980) was a German singer and actor. He started in life as a shipyard worker before he decided to make use of his acting and singing talent. Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs. A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933, accompanied by his wife, Eva Busch, and with the Gestapo on his heels, initially settling in the Netherlands. By 1938 they had divorced as their lives diverged. Eva settled in Paris while Ernst initially made his home in the Soviet Union where he worked with Gustav von Wangenheim on the 1935 film “Kämpfer” (“Fighters”). In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against the Nationalists in Spain. His wartime songs were then recorded and broadcast by Radio Barcelona and Radio Madrid. After the Spanish Republic fell to General Franco, Busch migrated to Belgium where he was interned during the German occupation and later imprisoned in Camp Gurs, France and Berlin. Freed by the Red Army in 1945, he settled in East Berlin. He was a beloved figure in the DDR.
Karl Marx and Friedlich Engels “Gesambt Ausgabe”, meaning The Whole Work Of Karl Marx and Friedlich Engels made in 1927. This is the first attempt to come to a collected work from Marx and Engels. The series never completed, the editors Adoratski and Rjzanov were placed against the wall and shot death by Stalin. Added is the appendix of the 1st edition of the Grundrisse from 1941, published in Moscow. Also added is a anniversary edition of the Anti-Duehring of Friedrich Engels for the 40th year of death of Engels (1935). (State of this book is less good) This series is almost impossible to find. The condition of the books is generally good.
Books made in Germany 1925 with the collected works of Rosa Luxemburg. Part III, IV and VI. In good condition. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Born and raised in an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897. After the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) which eventually became the KPD. During the November Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. Luxemburg considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported the attempted overthrow of the government and rejected any attempt at a negotiated solution. Friedrich Ebert’s majority SPD government crushed the revolt and the Spartakusbund by sending in the Freikorps, government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of World War I veterans. Freikorps troops captured and summarily executed Luxemburg and Liebknecht during the rebellion.
Complete serieLenin Saemtliche Werke, “All Works Of Lenin”. The first attempt in Germany to make a collected work of Lenin. The intention was to get to 30 parts. In the end 19 volumes, two of which are doubles, were published. The series is not completed because Stalin put a stop to it. The series is seen as the best because the influence of Stalin on a number of parts is not yet noticeable, so not censored. The series is also interesting because the design of the books was made by John Heartfield, a well-known artist from the interwar period. The books are collected over a twenty year period and generally of very good quality. As a complete serie very hard to find, especially in this condition.
Original BRD sign from the cold war era. The text on the sign reads:”The Wall. Museum At Checkpoint Charlie” On the back there is a sticker. The text on the sticker reads:”Museum House At Checkpoint Charlie. Where World History Manifests Itself”. This sign was a gift to the previous owner. A business gift from Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, in October 1988. The previous owner wanted to set up a Berlin Wall exhibition in the Netherlands in 1991, for the anniversary thirty years of the Berlin Wall. They then sought cooperation from this museum and the West Berlin Senate. Cooperation was then promised but stopped in November 1989 because the DDR started to dissolve. This sign hung in West Berlin in the 1970s/80s to indicate the way to Checkpoint Charlie. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of metal.
Original BRD sign from the cold war era. The text on the sign reads:”Stop! Here Zone Boundary. Federal Border Protection”. This sign was bought in 1991 on a fleamarket in Berlin. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. The BRD called the DDR the “SBZ” or “the zone” until the early 1970s to make it clear that they did not recognize the DDR. When Willy Brandt in the BRD took over at the end of 1969, the relationship between the BRD and the DDR changes for the better and the so-called “Ostpolitik” (East Politics) of Brandt takes place. The word zone then disappears from the border plates and becomes: “Halt Here Grenze!” instead of Zone. So this sign is from before 1969. It was bought in 1991 in Berlin. The word “Zone” is an essential difference with the other signs The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of metal.
Original DDR sign from the cold war era. The text on the sign reads:”Stop, State Border. Entering Forbidden!”. This sign was bought in 1991 on a fleamarket in Berlin. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of pressed wood. Original sign and reproduced many times but this is the real deal.
Original DDR sign from the cold war era. The text on the sign reads:”Border Area restricted Zone. Entering Forbidden”. These kind of signs were located 5 kilometre (2.5 miles) from the iron curtain. indicating that entering without the right papers wos forbidden. This sign was bought in 1992 on a fleamarket in Berlin. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of pressed wood.l. Original sign and reproduced many times but this is the real deal.
Original DDR sign from the cold war era. The text on the sign reads:”Restricted area. Unauthorized persons are not to enter, drive or take pictures. Violations will be punished”. These kind of signs were located 5 kilometre (2.5 miles) from the iron curtain. indicating that entering without the right papers wos forbidden. This sign was bought in 1992 on a fleamarket in Berlin. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of pressed wood.l. Original sign and reproduced many times but this is the real deal.
100% original DDR sign. “End Of British Sector, Do Not Pass Beyond This Point” and beneath that the German langauge:”End Of The British Sector The Adjacent Area Belongs To The DDR. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. In the 1980’s the former Ducth Bolshewick travelled many times to the Soviet Union and the DDR with his friends. Sensing in 1989 that the DDR was about to collapse (this was also told to him by his DDR friends), he and some friends took the sign from it’s pole in Spandau/Raken wich was west of Berlin at night. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of metal. On the back there still are the fastening brackets. Unique sign and reproduced many times but this is the real deal.
100% original DDR sign. “You Are Leaving The American Sector” and beneath that the same in the German language. From a collection of a former Dutch Bolshewik. In the 1980’s the former Ducth Bolshewick travelled many times to the Soviet Union and the DDR with his friends. Sensing in 1989 that the DDR was about to collapse (this was also told to him by his DDR friends), he and some friends took the sign from it’s pole in Rudow wich was south-west of Berlin at night. The sign is in good condition. Few marks wich can be expected from a sign what was actually used. Made of metal. On the back there still are the fastening brackets. Unique sign and reproduced many times but this is the real deal.
Unique and very rare poster from the DDR. The text on the poster reads:”August 13th. 1961 For Our Security August 13th. 1981″. For celebrating the 20th. anniversary of the Berlin Wall. The poster was obtained by a Dutch Bolshevik who was actually present at the parade in East Berlin on the 13th. of August 1981. Already this poster was hard to get in East Berlin. The poster was hung in several shop windows. After asking in shops if he could have the poster, finally he was allowed to take a poster with him. There is also a smaller version of this poster (40x29cm./15.7×11.4inch.).
Original DDR sign bought on a streetmarket in Berlin in 1991. The text on the sign reads:”Friedrich Engels Street”. Enamel/metal plate in very good condition. Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England. Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
Original DDR sign bought on a streetmarket in Berlin in 1991. The text on the sign reads:”Karl Marx Street”. Enamel/metal plate. 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.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1994, about the 100th Anniversary of Kabo Peasant War. The Donghak Peasant Revolution, also known as the Donghak Peasant Movement , The Peasant Revolt of 1894, the Gabo Peasant Revolution, was an armed rebellion in Korea led by peasants and followers of the Donghak religion, a pantheistic religion viewed by many rebels as a political ideology.
Minisheet made in North Korea, 1994, for the 30th Anniversary of Publication of “Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country” by Kim Il Sung.
Minisheet made in North Korea, 1994, for the 20th Anniversary of Publication of “Program for Modelling the Whole Society on the Juche Idea” by Kim Jong Il.
Stamp made in North Korea, 1994, for the 20th Anniversary of Publication of “Program for Modelling the Whole Society on the Juche Idea” by Kim Jong Il.
Warsaw Pact table medal. Made in 1979. Probably made for a big Warschaupact exercise with military units from Hungary, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. In the star you can see the flags of the 5 countries and in their own language it says “Shield”. In the middle an AK47 with target and the year 1979. Made of bronze. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist countries that existed between 1955 and 1991. It was established as a counterpart to NATO at the suggestion of Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev. The treaty was signed on 14 May 1955 in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in response to NATO by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the GDR, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. All but one of the communist states in Eastern Europe were members: only Yugoslavia was left out. The members of the pact promised to defend each other if one or more members were attacked.
Bust of Lenin made with signature. The statue is made of plaster reinforced with flax (see photo) and has a signature on the back and a kind of logo. They look like initials. A GK or KG. Statue has been in a town hall and was removed in 1986, name of the place and year are written in the statue. It then went into storage until now. See photos, statue does have some damage of course and has not been cleaned, polished or refurbished, completely original.
Postacrd from the Soviet Union, made in 1990. The text on the envelope reads:”Happy Holiday!” and 1917. 1917 was the year of the October Revolution. 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.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1975. The text on the envelope reads:”Writer E. N. Permitin”. Efim Nikolaevich Permitin (1895/1896-1971) was a journalist and writer. In the First World War he commanded a platoon, then a company of scouts. After the February Revolution, he was elected to the regimental committee, during the Civil War he fought in Siberia against the Kolchakites, at the end of the war he served as the military commandant of Ust-Kamenogorsk. Demobilized after being wounded by shrapnel in the chest, he worked as a school teacher and in the Ust-Kamenogorsk department of public education. He wrote several books.
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”May 1″. May 1 is Labour Day. Labour Day (or International Worker’s Day) is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists and anarchists. Labour day was established in 1890 as an international protest day for demanding a 8 hour working day, labour rights and for keeping the peace.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1990. The text on the envelope reads:”May 19 is the birthday of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V. I. Lenin”.
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1977. The text on the envelope reads:”XX years of the space age. Cosmonautics in the service of the national economy of the USSR”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 164gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metal trade. State-owned external and internal trading company of the GDR””, and on the back:”For loyal 25 years of work in the metal trade”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 10.5cm./4.1inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 163gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metallurgy trade. For excellent work”, and on the back:”Metaltrade. German Democratic Republic”.