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: 3.00 euro
Size 1 sticker: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
Stickers of Lenon on one sheet. Probably from the late 1970’s, into the 80’s.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 60x40cm./23.6×15.7inch.
Weight: 71gr./2.5oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 60x40cm./23.6×15.7inch.
Weight: 71gr./2.5oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 80x60cm./31.5×23.6inch.
Weight: 167gr./5.8oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 80x60cm./31.5×23.6inch.
Weight: 167gr./5.8oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 80x60cm./31.5×23.6inch.
Weight: 167gr./5.8oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
(15.73.21)
Price: 20.00 euro.
Size: 80x60cm./31.5×23.6inch.
Weight: 167gr./5.8oz.
This is a recent made propaganda cloth from China showing Mao Zedong.
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Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 93x46cm./36.6×18.1inch.
Weight: 33gr./1.1oz.
Albanian communist scarf used by the Labour Youth Union Of Albania. The text on the scarf reads:”We learn and work for the strengthening and protection of the homeland”. The Labour Youth Union of Albania was the youth organization of the Party of Labour of Albania. Founded on November 23, 1941 as the Communist Youth it was officially described as the “greatest revolutionary force of inexhaustible strength” and a “strong fighting reserve of the party” it was a key organization for political socialization in socialist Albania.
The union operated directly under the Party of Labour of Albania. The union was considered one of the most important auxiliaries of the party. Organized in the same way as the party, the union had city and district committees, and higher organs, including the politburo and Central Committee. It was patterned after All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League, known as Komsomol, in the Soviet Union.
It had 200.000 members in the range of 15 to 25 years old. it was dissolved in 1991.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 63cm./24.8inch.
Weight: 44gr./1.5oz.
Silk cloth made in the DDR. The text on the cloth reads:”We Are Great Troops”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 27cm./10.6inch.
Weight: 19gr./0.6oz.
Cloth made in the DDR with the coat of arms. The text reads:”National People’s Army”. The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 40cm./15.7inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Year: 1980
Silk cloth made in the DDR in 1980. The cloth was made for the festival of friendship of the youth of the DDR and USSR, held in Karl Marx City (now Chemnitz) held in the end of 1980.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 24.5×18.5cm./9.6×7.2inch.
Weight: 36gr./1.2oz.
DDR pennant with flag and coat of arms.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 2gr./o.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR for technical career in the Volksmarine (People’s Navy).
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 2gr./o.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR for service career radio measurement of the Volksmarine (People’s Navy).
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
DDR Volksmarine (Peope’s Navy) medical specialist badge.
Price: 3.00 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 4gr./0.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR. The text on the patch reads:”Protection Police”. This patch was for the transport police. Mainly railways.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 4gr./0.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR for the Betriebsschutz (Industrial Security) wich was part of the Volkspolizei (Poeple’s Police). In the GDR, industrial security was a branch of the People’s Police. Company security offices existed in companies of high (national) economic importance. For example the “LEUNA-Werke”, the “Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost” and the cement works in Rüdersdorf. The tasks of the “company guards” consisted in the prevention and detection of criminal offenses, in particular acts of theft on the premises of the company and the enforcement of order and security.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 4gr./0.1oz.
Patch from the DDR made for the Volkzpolizei (People’s Police) for the Abschnittsbevollmächtigter function (Section Representative). An Abschnittsbevollmächtigter (ABV) was a police officer of the Volkspolizei in the GDR. It was a kind of neighborhood/community police officer, which was responsible for a certain area.
The Abschnittsbevollmächtigter was the point of contact for both the citizens in that area and the Volkspolizei. The Abschnittsbevollmächtigter was also responsible for issuing court documents in its area. The Abschnittsbevollmächtigter also had to keep an eye on foreign visitors and prepare a report for the Ministry of State Security (the Stasi) whether a DDR citizen was allowed to go abroad.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 11×7.5cm./4.3×2.9inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
Patch from the DDR made for the Schutzpolizei (Protection Police). The Schutzpolizei was in support of the regular police forces. The tasks consisted of checks, support in collisions, burglaries, theft and public order. The department was provided with official cars, and also performed street service.
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Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR for the KDA, Combat Groups Of The Working Class. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s. It was used and hanged.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s. It was used and hanged.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 26×18.5cm./10.2×7.2inch.
Weight: 5gr./0.1oz.
Old card/miniposter with Mao Zedong. Probably from the 1970’s. It was used and hanged.
(R.39.21)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 13.5x13cm./5.3×5.1inch.
Weight: 1000gr./35.2oz.
Statue sculpture made in the Soviet Union. Very heavy statue of a soldier with behind him a stylistic bracket with a radar shield attached. On the shield is a MIG, Missile and Radar system that defended Russian airspace. Pedestal is made of black lacquered wood.
(R.34.21)
Price: 44.00 euro
Size: 15.5cm./6.1inch.
Weight: 571gr./20.1oz.
Military wall plate from Hungary. Solid aluminum wall plate with honorary branches along the side to celebrate a 25th anniversary. Soviet star and an AK-47. The MHSZ (Hungarian National Defense Association) was a paramilitary group in Socialist Hungary. It was a combination of civil defense, fund-raising, and sporting events.
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(R.28.21)
Price: 36.50 euro
Size: 31cm./12.2inch.
Weight: 488gr./17.2oz.
Urn or vase Moscow 1950’s. Hand painted original paint! Presumably 1950s and made entirely of tin. Old Shield PCCP on top is made of Aluminum.
(R.28.21)
Price: 32.50 euro each
Size: 11×6.8cm./4.3×2.6inch.
Weight: 211gr./7.4oz.
Old Melkhior Podstakannik teaglass holder, showing the Kremlin. Found in Hungary.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 6.5×3.5cm./2.5×1.3inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
Little car pennant featuring the flag of the DPRK.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 5x4cm./1.9×1.5inch.
Weight: 23gr./0.8oz.
Keychain from the Soviet Union. A miniature book with pictures. The text on the cover of the book reads:”Monuments of the architecture of Pushkin Park”. Pushkin Park is located in the centre of Saransk in Mordovia, Russia. Pushkin Park is one of the most beautiful parks in Saransk; its area is about 40 hectares. Alexander Pushkin was one of the greatest Russian writer and poet. Nowadays the park became a place of rest for people of different ages, interests and the main place to hold large events. Its shady avenues, clean air and good atmosphere attract visitors on weekends and week days. There are three main parts in this park: a rest zone, an attractions zone and an event zone. Pushkin Park has three main attractions. There are a big wheel, a brass band that plays every Sunday, and a train for little children and their parents.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 8gr./0.2oz.
Keychain from the Soviet Union. It is a minibook with pictures from Leningrad.
(10.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 132x94cm./51.9x37inch.
Weight: 67gr./2.3oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Revolution”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 140x93cm./55.1×36.6inch.
Weight: 106gr./41.7inch.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 136x98cm./53.5×38.5inch.
Weight: 95gr./3.3oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory. Commander Che Guevara”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 144x90cm./56.6×35.4inch.
Weight: 115gr./4oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 144x90cm./56.6×35.4inch.
Weight: 105gr./3.7oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 98x69cm./38.5×27.1inch.
Weight: 38gr./1.3oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
(10.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 106x74cm./41.7×29.1inch.
Weight: 40gr./1.4oz.
Flag with the image of Che Guevara. made of nylon. The text on the flag reads:”Ever Onwards To Victory”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1967
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1967. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory To October”.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the nevelope reads:”Happy New Year”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1979
FDC made in te Soviet Union, 1979. The text on the envelope reads:”Second Satellite. Coorperation In Space. CCCP And India”.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC made in the Soviet Union.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1970
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1970. The text on the envelop reads:”Moscow Planetarium”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1970
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1970. The text on the envelop reads:”Cosmonautics Day”. Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1969
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1969. The text on the envelop reads:”For the first time history in space. At the same time three manned ships. Soyuz-8 spacecraft crew”. Soyuz 8 was part of a joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 7 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying a total of seven cosmonauts.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1970
FDC made in the Sovit Union, 1970. The text reads:”Cosmonautics Day”. Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1965
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1965. The text on the envelope reads:”April 12, Cosmonautics Day”.
Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1973
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1973. The text on the envelope reads:”First Day”.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC made in the Soviet Union, in the late 1960’s. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory To Soviet Science!”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1975
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1975. The text on the envelope reads:”Experimental flight of spacecraft Soyuz and Apollo”. Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as a United States Apollo module docked with a Soviet Union Soyuz capsule.
The project, and its memorable handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between the two superpowers. It is generally considered to mark the end of the Space Race, which had begun in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1980
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1980. The text on the envelope reads:”12 April Cosmonautics Day. World Aviation And Cosmonautics Day”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1983
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1983. The text on the envelop reads:”International Exhibition, Moscow, 1983″.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1984
DFC made in the Soviet Union, 1984. The text on the envelope reads:”12 April Cosmonautics Day”.
Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1979
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1979. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory Great October!”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Envelope issued in the Soviet Union.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1980
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1980. The text on the envelope reads:”In The Center Of Training Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1979
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1979. The text on the envelope reads:”World Telecommunication Exhibition Telecom Geneva”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1978
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1978. The text on the envelope reads:”Moscow, Bahx, Sculpture of a mukhina worker and collective farmers”.
Bahx is the permanent exhibition center in Moscow. Mukhina was the sculptor of the Worker And Kolkhoz Woman. Worker and Kolkhoznitza Woman is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads. It is 24.5 metres (78 feet) high, made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of socialist realism in an Art Deco aesthetic. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1976
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1976. The text on the envelope reads:”Rocket GIRD-X engine, launched in November 1933″. GIRD-X was the first Soviet rocket with a liquid propulsion . It was developed in the Moscow office of the GIRD between 1932 and 1933 by Friedrich Zander and Sergei Koroljow, among others, from project 10 from 1928, which was not implemented.
After Zander died of typhus on March 28, 1933, Koroljow completed the work on the GIRD-X rocket alone. The first launch took place on November 25, 1933 in Nachabino near Moscow. The engine mount and fuel line broke at a height of around 80 m. As a result, the rocket deviated considerably from the intended vertical flight path and hit 150 m away from the launch point. The launch of the GIRD-X rocket, together with that of the previous GIRD-09 model, marked the birth of Soviet rocket technology.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1976
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1976. The text on the envelope reads:”Rocketry. The first Soviet liquid rocket GIRD 1933″. The GIRDorganisation was created on September 15, 1931. There were a number of amateur groups and solitary researchers in existence, but GIRD was the world’s first large professional rocketry program. The group was organized as four brigades and ten projects to study rocket engines and also winged and wingless missiles. In 1933 they launched the first liquid fueled rocket.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC made in the Soviet Union. The text on the envelope reads:”12th. April, Cosmonautics Day”.
Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1982
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1982. The text on the envelope reads:”600 Years Domestic Artillery”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Envelope from the Soviet Union.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1981
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1981. The text on the envelope reads:”International Space Flights”.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1979
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1979. The text on the envelope reads:”Philatelic exhibition to the stars”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1968
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1968. The envelope is about space orbits.
The envelope is about Zond 5. Zond 5 was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. In September 1968 it became the second spaceship to travel to and circle the Moon, and the first to return safely to Earth.
Zond 5 carried the first terrestrial organisms to the vicinity of the Moon, including two tortoises, fruit fly eggs, and plants. The tortoises underwent biological changes during the flight, but it was concluded that the changes were primarily due to starvation and that they were little affected by space travel.
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 16.5x9cm./6.4×3.5inch.
Weight: 712gr./25.1oz.
Bust of Lenin on red marble with signature of the artist.
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 15.5x9cm./6.1×3.5inch.
Weight: 713gr./25.1oz.
Year: 1974
Bust with Lenin and inscription. Made in 1974. The bust is made of metal with a plastic base. The base has got some glitter in it, making it look more like marble.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1971
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1971. The text on the envelope reads:”Cosmonautics Day”.
Cosmonautics Day is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on 12 April. In 2011, 12 April was declared as the International Day of Human Space Flight in dedication of the first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The commemorative day was established in the Soviet Union one year later, on 9 April 1962.
Nowadays the commemoration ceremony on Cosmonautics Day starts in the city of Korolyov, near Gagarin’s statue. Participants then proceed under police escort to Red Square for a visit to Gagarin’s grave in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and continue to Cosmonauts Alley, near the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
On 7 April 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight. On 12 April 2017, the United Nations commemorated the “International Day of Human Space Flight” to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first human space flight, which started the beginning of the space era for mankind.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1971
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1971. The text on the envelop reads:”24th. Congress Communist Party”.
The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was convened in Moscow from 30 March to 9 April 1971. The Congress brought together 4,963 delegates, with 102 foreign delegations from 91 countries as observers.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1969
FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1969. The text on the envelop reads:”Soyuz 3″. Soyuz 3 was a spaceflight mission launched by the Soviet Union on 26 October 1968. Flown by Georgy Beregovoy, the Soyuz spacecraft completed 81 orbits over four days.
The 47-year-old Beregovoy was a decorated World War II flying ace and the oldest person to go into space up to that time. The mission achieved the first Russian space rendezvous with the uncrewed Soyuz 2, but failed to achieve a planned docking of the two craft.
Price: 1.50 euro
Year: 1982
FDC made in the Soviet Union for comemmorating Radio Day. The text on the envelop reads:”Radio Day Holiday. Radio Workers In All branches”.
Radio Day, Communications Workers’ Day (as it is officially known in Russia) is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia. It takes place on 7 May, the day in 1895 on which Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated a radio based lightning detector.
Popov’s device was just a radio receiver, he would not develop a radio transmitter until over a year later (a year and a half after Guglielmo Marconi developed a similar device. Popov’s presentation was declared the “inventor of radio” in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe..
The first Radio Day was observed in the Soviet Union in 1945, on the 50th anniversary of Popov’s experiment, and some four decades after his death. Radio Day is officially marked in Russia and Bulgaria.
(155.21)
Price: 195.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Big velvet flag/banner from the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The text on front of the banner reads:”Proletarians of all countries, unite! Under the banner of Marxism Leninism, with leadership of the Communist Party, forward to the victory of communism!”. The text on the back reads:”Mobile mechanized column 43. The winner in socialist competition”.
(155.21)
Price: 175.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Big velvet flag/banner from the Soviet Union. The text on front of the banner reads:”Proletarians of all countries, unite! Under the banner of Marxism Leninism, with leadership of the Communist Party, forward to the victory of communism!”.
(155.21)
Price: 195.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Big velvet flag/banner from the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The text on front of the banner reads:”Proletarians of all countries, unite! Under the banner of Marxism Leninism, with leadership of the Communist Party, forward to the victory of communism!”. And the back of the flag reads:”Kirovograd regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine regional executive committee and regional trade union”.
(155.21)
Price: 195.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Year: 1973
Big velvet flag/banner from the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Made in 1973.
(155.21)
Price: 195.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Big velvet flag/banner from the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The text on front of the banner reads:”Proletarians of all countries, unite! Under the banner of Marxism Leninism, with leadership of the Communist Party, forward to the victory of communism!”. And the back of the flag reads:”State farm named after Chernyakhovsky Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district”.
(155.21)
Price: 195.00 euro
Size: 165x130cm./64.9×51.1inch.
Weight: 2100gr./74oz.
Big velvet flag/banner from the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The text on front of the banner reads:”Proletarians of all countries, unite! Under the banner of Marxism Leninism, with leadership of the Communist Party, forward to the victory of communism!”. And the back of the flag reads:”Cherno Bayevsky district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, executive committee of the district council of people’s deputies!”.
(R.35.21)
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 14.5×7.5cm./5.7×2.9inch.
Weight: 361gr./12.7oz.
Tank Soviet BRDM-1 on oak base with coat of arms. Vintage armored vehicle.
(R.24.21)
Price: 32.00 euro
Size: 28.5x8cm./11.2×3.1inch.
Weight: 158gr./5.5oz.
5 x medals WW2 in original box. 5 Tokens of the Second World War. They are in a transparent original box where the tokens can be viewed on both sides. Of course they can be removed from the box. Th text on the plate raeds:”No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten”.
(0.5.21)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 11.5×7.5cm./4.5×2.9inch.
Weight: 2gr./0.1oz.
Patch made in the DDR for the People’s Police. The text on the patch reads:”Section Representative”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 9×7.5cm./3.5×2.9inch.
Weight: 3gr./0.1oz.
Patch from the DDR, civil defense. This patch was sewn on uniform sleeves or armbands.
The Civil defense of the GDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 20.5×12.5cm./8×4.9inch.
Weight: 11gr./0.3oz.
Armband made in the DDR for the Civil Defense (Zivil Verteidigung). This is the olive version.
The Civil defense of the GDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 20.5×12.5cm./8×4.9inch.
Weight: 11gr./0.3oz.
Armband made in the DDR for the Civil Defense (Zivil Verteidigung). This is the grey version.
The Civil defense of the GDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 20.5×12.5cm./8×4.9inch.
Weight: 11gr./0.3oz.
Armband made in the DDR for the Civil Defense (Zivil Verteidigung). This is the blue version.
The Civil defense of the GDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 32x9cm./12.5×3.5inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Regular Armband with straps from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army).
(5.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 32x9cm./12.5×3.5inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Armband with straps from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by Duty Of The Chair (Diensthabender des Lehrstuhls).
(5.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 32x9cm./12.5×3.5inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Armband with straps from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Duty Driver Or Cook Personnel (Kraftfahrer or Koch vom Dienst).
(4.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 32x9cm./12.5×3.5inch.
Weight: 26gr./0.9oz.
Armband with straps from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Assistant Operational Personnel (Gehilfe des Operativdiensthabender).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by Duty Of The Chair (Diensthabender des Lehrstuhls).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Assistant Operational Personnel (Gehilfe des Operativdiensthabender).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Duty Driver Or Cook Personnel (Kraftfahrer or Koch vom Dienst).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Operational Park Personnel (Diensthabender vom Park).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a Operational Duty Personnel (Operativ Diensthabender).
(4.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a officer assistant (Gehilfe Offizier vom Dienst).
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a petty officer assistant (Gehilfe Unteroffizier vom Dienst).
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a petty officer (Unteroffizier vom Dienst).
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by a soldier who was on duty (Diensthabender).
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by the assistant of the duty officer of the vehicle park (Gehilfe Offizier Vom Park).
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 16.5×9.5cm./6.4×3.7inch.
Weight: 15gr./0.5oz.
Armband from the DDR used by the NVA (National People’s Army). This armband was worn by the duty officer of the vehicle park (Offizier Vom Park).
Price: 0.50 euro
Matchbox label made in the Belarus, late 1950’s, early 1960’s.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Soviet Union, made in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. The text on the label reads:”Insurance Contract. This Is A Guarantee”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. The text on the label reads:”Forest Workers Day”.
Price: 0.50 euro
Year: 1961
2 matchbox labels from the Soviet Union made in 1961.
Price: 1.00 euro
Year: 1966
Beautiful matchbox label set made in teh Soviet Union, 1966.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label made in teh Soviet Union, in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. The text on the label reads:”Tula is reliable and practical, it works perfectly!”.
Price: 0.50 euro
Set of 2 matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, late 1950’s, early 1960’s, with statues.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. Th etext on the label reads:”Wash your laundry nicely”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1960
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1960. The text on the label reads:”This bristol is bought by consumer cooperation”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Buy Standard Houses”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Buy Books In Consumer Cooperation Stores”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Desserts puddings from concentrates, delicious third course”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Can be purchased in consumer cooperation stores”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1957
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1957. The text on the label reads:”Fire Is Dangerous!”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1959
Matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1959. Warning labels against alcohol abuse.
Price: 1.00 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Conclude Life Insurance Contracts!”.
Price: 0.50 euro
Year: 1959
Matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1959. The text on the labels reads:”If you buy a vacuum cleaner the apartment is neither dirty nor filthy”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Sewing machines are sold in consumer cooperation stores”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label made in the Soviet Union, 1961. The text on the label reads:”Don’t Forget To Insure Your Buildings”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Year: 1959
Matchbox label from the Soviet Union, 1959. The text on the label reads:”Drivers! Discipline driving a pledge of trouble-free work”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1959
Set of matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1959, with household products. Of this set there is also a green and orange version.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1959
Set of matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1959, with household products. Of this set there is also a green and lilac version.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1959
Set of matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union, 1959, with household products. Of this set there is also an orange and lilac version.
Price: 1.25 euro
Year: 1959
Set matchbox labels from the Soviet Union, made in 1959, with various type of industry on it.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Soviet Union made in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. The text on the label reads:”Each Scrap Of Metal” and at the bottom:”Metallurgy”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1963
Set of Soviet matchbox labels made in 1963. The labels features different aspects of medical work.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Soviet Union made in the late 1950’2, early 1960’s.
Price: 2.00 euro
Year: 1961
Set of matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union in 1961. The text on the labels reads:”Red Cross Join Society”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Set of sporting matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union.
Price: 2.00 euro
Matchbox label set from the Soviet Union. Made in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. It contains several sporting organisations.
Price: 4.25 euro
Matchbox labels made in the Soviet Union about ice hockey. The labels are made in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s.
Price: 2.25 euro
Year: 1961
Matchbox label set from the Soviet Union made in 1961. The text on the labels reads:”Moscow Hippodrome”.
Price: 4.25 euro
Matchbox label set from the Soviet Union. The text on the labels reads:”Leningrad Hotels”.
Price: 2.25 euro
Year: 1961
Complete matchbox label set with sports. The red version.
Price: 2.25 euro
Year: 1962
Complete matchbox label set with sports. The orange version.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 2x1cm./0.7×0.3inch.
Pin made in the DDR during the cold war era. A Soviet/DDR friendship pin.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 2x1cm./0.7×0.3inch.
Year: 1982
Pin from the DDR green edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 1.5×1.5cm./0.5×0.5inch.
Pin from the DSF organisation.
The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 1.5×1.5cm./0.5×0.5inch.
Pin from the DSF organisation.
The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 1.5×1.5cm./0.5×0.5inch.
Pin from the DSF organisation.
The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 2×1.5cm./0.7×0.5inch.
Pin DDR from the FDGB organisation.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (German: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB), was the sole national trade union centre of the DDR which existed from 1946 and 1990. As a mass organisation of the DDR, nominally representing all workers in the country, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade unions.
Price: 2.00 euro
Size: 2x2cm./0.7inch.
Pin DDR from the FDGB organisation.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (German: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB), was the sole national trade union centre of the DDR which existed from 1946 and 1990. As a mass organisation of the DDR, nominally representing all workers in the country, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade unions.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 1.7×1.5cm./0.6×0.5inch.
Pin DDR from the FDGB organisation.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (German: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB), was the sole national trade union centre of the DDR which existed from 1946 and 1990. As a mass organisation of the DDR, nominally representing all workers in the country, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade unions.