Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard, Soviet Union, 1976 about the 9th. of May when Nazi Germany surrended to the Soviet Union.
Shown on the card is The Order Of The Great Patriotic War Medal with it’s inscription:”Patriotic War”. Beneath that the card says:”Happy Victory Day”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard drom the Soviet Union Victory Day, 1981. Text on postcard:”Celebration Of Victory”
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Sovjet postcard about Victory Day, 1970. The postcard says:”Victory Day!”.
Shown is the Soviet War Memorial. A war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
(45.20)
(26.5.19)
Price: 45.00 euro
Weight: 52gr./1.8oz.
Beautiful Sovjet Lenin watch. In very good condition and runs well. Shown on the plate in red are Lenin, a red star and the hammer and sickle.
Price: 0.50 euro
Year: 1995
Compleat set of 2 stamps, North Korea, 1995, stamped.
Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 10.5×7.5cm./4.1×2.9
Year: 1995
Minisheet in perfect condition. 1995.
Price: 0.20 euro
Year: 1995
Stamp from North Korea, 1995, about Tree Planting Day.
(45.20)
(25.19)
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 76.5×53.5cm./30.1x21inch.
Original handpainted North Korea poster. The poster is about the Arirang Mass Games.
The Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang is a mass gymnastics and artistic festival held in Pyongyang, North Korea. The games usually take place in August or September. The games were held annually between 2002 and 2013, with the exception of 2006. After a five year hiatus, the Arirang Mass Games returned for a performance entitled ‘The Glorious Country’ in 2018.
In August 2007, the Arirang Mass Games were recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest gymnastic display with 100,090 participants at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang.
Arirang is a Korean folk song that is often considered to be the anthem of Korea. There are about 3,600 variations of 60 different versions of the song, all of which include a similar refrain. It is estimated the song is more than 600 years old.
Arirang is included twice on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. By South Korea and North Korea.
Price: 0.25 euro
Label is from Soviet Russia, late 50’s, early 60’s.
Price: 1.25 euro
Set of matchbox labels from the Sovjet Union, 1976.
Label 1 says:”State Insurance” and “Accident Insurance”
Label 2 says:”State Insurance” and “Child Insurance Child Care”
Label 3 says:”State Insurance” and “Voluntary Building Insurance”
Label 4 says:”State Insurance” and “Home Insurance Is Necessary For Every Family”
Label 5 says:”State Insurance” and “Life Insurance Serves Workers”
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Letvia. The label says:”Turn off gas with phonecall”. Label is from the Kometa match factory. From late 50’s early 60’s.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the state museum wich stands in Kaluga.
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened in 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a school master and rocket science pioneer who lived most of his life in this city.
The building was designed by Boris Barkhin, Evgeny Kireev, Nataliya Orlova, Valentin Strogy and Kirill Fomin, and the cornerstone was laid by Yuri Gagarin on 13 June 1961. The museum has over 100,000 visitors per year.
The exposition of the museum consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the ideas and research of Tsiolkovsky, and shows a model of the rocket designed by Tsiolkovsky as well as copies of his scientific work. The second part contains mock-ups of space craft like Sputnik 1 and samples of moon dust. Just outside the museum is a rocket park, which contains amongst others a R-7 rocket.
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
A exhibition room in the museum
A rocket
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Planetarium in Volvograd (former Stalingrad).
The Planetarium in Volgograd appeared as a present from the DDR to the seventieth birthday of Joseph Stalin. The equipment for the planetarium was made in Germany and then placed in the building specially designed by Stalingrad architects. The sculpture of famous Soviet artist Vera Mukhina decorates the dome of the Volgograd planetarium.
The planetarium in Volvograd
One of it’s showrooms
The observatory
Painting of Stalin in the planetarum
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about Sputnik 1. First satellite to be launched from earth. The pin says:”First Satellite”.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it in 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere.
Its radio signal was easily detectable even by radio amateurs, and its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. The satellite triggered the Space Race. The launch was the beginning of a new era of political, military, technological, and scientific developments.
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 propaganda poster
Another Sputnik propaganda poster
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is probably issued in 1980 when Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez travelled into orbit in the Interkosmos space program. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38 he was the first Cuban citizen and the first person of African heritage in space. Together with Yuri Romanenko from the Soviet Union.
He has been honored by the Cuban Government for being the first Cuban, the first Caribbean, and the first Latin American to go into orbit. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Giron. He also is a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
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.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Interkosmos logo
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko after their space flight
(90.19)
(70.19)
Price: 90.00 euro
Slava quality watch with Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. Beautiful watch, tested en and runs very well.
Slava watches were classic civil Russian watches. The Slava factory was the second non military watchmaker established in the Soviet Union, in 1924. The watches of this brand have always been intended for civilian consumption, without military or aerospace pretensions.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri Gagarin
Gagarin on a propaganda poster
Yuri Gagarin
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1988. The texts says:”Patriotic War”. And on the bottem of the card:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1970.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 1979.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
(10.19)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 10.5×7.5cm./4.1×2.9
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
Pages: 378
Original red book from China.
Often the Red Books came in small editions so the Chinese people could easily carry it in a pocket to take it with them. So The Red Book was often called The Little Red Book.
The first edition of The Red Book appeared in 1964. In the book there are quotations of Mao Zedong. There were put together by Lin Biao. Lin Biao was a general under Mao’s rule and one of his most trusted friends.
During The Cultural Revolution they printed about 5-6 billion copies of this book. Making it the worlds second most printed book, the Bible being first. In The Cultural Revolution everybody in China was obligated to have and study The Little Red Book.In 1966 they distributed the Red Book internationally in different languages.
Reading the red bood in the mountains..
Red book read by children
The litte red book on the farmland..
(2.5.20)
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 10.5×7.5cm./4.1×2.9
Note booklet from China.
Price: 3.50 euro
Year: 1995
Minisheet of 6 stamps, 1995, stamped.
Price: 0.50 euro
Year: 1995
Complete set of 2 stamps.
This is the site where Kim Il-Sung was born and as such is of high importance to the citizens of the DPRK.
The complex consists of three areas, the house complex, a water well and then a viewing platform at the top of the hill.
Price: 0.30 euro
Year: 1995
Complete set of 2 North Korean stamps about the meeting of Kim Il Sung and Deng Xiaoping.
(55.20)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 58.5×42.5cm./23×16.7inch.
Handpainted North Korean propaganda poster. Original. Made and obtained in North Korea and taken out. North Korea has got some of the most agressive propaganda made in the world. On this poster there is a soldiers with the North Korean flag.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Vezuvs factory in Riga. From late 50’s/early 60’s. The label says:”15 january, the all union population census. Promote a succesful census”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia late 50’s/early 60’s.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia with an image of the skyline of capital Riga. Label from late 50’s/early 60’s.
Skyline Riga
Price: 7.50 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 3.00 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Soviet pin with the image of a cosmonaut. Could be Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin pictures the image of Sergei Korolev.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and launching Laika and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
Once he was arrested on a false official charge as a “member of an anti Soviet counter-revolutionary organization” (which would later be reduced to “saboteur of military technology”), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years.
Following his release he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. He later directed the Soviet space program and was made a Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok projects including the first human Earth orbit mission by Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961. Korolev’s unexpected death in 1966 interrupted implementation of his plans for a Soviet manned Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission.
Before his death he was officially identified only as Chief Designer, to protect him from possible cold war assassination attempts by the United States.
Sergei Korolev
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev during an launch.
Price: 1.50 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Space pin picturing the colossal “Conquerors Of Space” monument in Moscow.
Conquerors Of Space
Price: 3.00 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Pin is about Soyuz flight 39 launched in 1981.
Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew to the orbiting facility. The flight carried Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Russian, and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa, Mongolian, into space. With this mission, Gurragchaa became the first Mongolian, and second Asian cosmonaut. Pham Tuan from Vietnam was the first Asian with Soyuz 37. Dzhanibekov and Gurragchaa performed about thirty experiments during the course of the mission.
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.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa
Jugderdemidiin and Vladimir after their succesful flight
(350.19)
Price: 650.00 euro
Size: 206x110cm./81.1×43.3inch.
Weight: 7000gr./246.9oz.
Very big DDR carpet with portraits of Lenin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Made in sandcolored background and red flags on the sides, The brown main border is decorated with the state coat of arms of the DDR, the red star and hammer and sickle. At the top there are loops for wall mounting.
Most of the DDR carpets was made in the DDR but some were made in Turkey and shipped to the DDR. Like this one. This unusually big carpet was probably hung in government buildings.
The carpet is in perfect condition with no damages and was bought in the 70’s and taken to the Netherlands. And afer 40 years now for sale.
It is been known that another version of this carpet the heads are looking the other way (left). This carpet the heads are looking right and is more rarer.
The carpet hanging in the Statsi museum in Berlin.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard is made in 2005.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The top of the postcard says:”Victory” and the bottom of the card says:”Happy Holiday” The postcard is made in 1970.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Victory”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
(55.20)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 58.5×42.5cm./23×16.7inch.
Handpainted North Korean propaganda poster. Original. Made and obtained in North Korea and taken out. North Korea has got some of the most agressive propaganda made in the world. On this poster Capitol Hill is being blown up by Land, Marine and Airforce soldiers.
Price: 0.75 euro
Size: 8.4x8cm./3.3×3.1inch.
Minisheet, 1995.
Price: 0.50 euro
2 stamps, North Korea, 1995, stamped, about the Bandung Conference. Complete set.
The first large scale Asian African or Afro Asian Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia.
The twenty nine countries that participated represented a total population of 1.5 billion people, 54% of the world’s population.
The conference was organised by Indonesia, Burma (Myanmar), Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and India.
The conference’s stated aims were to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation. The conference was an important step towards the eventual creation of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 8.8×8.6cm./3.4×3.3inch.
Year: 1995
Minisheet, 1995, in perfect condition. Stamped. Made for the 40th. Bandung Conference. The first large scale Asian African or Afro Asian Conference, also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia.
The twenty nine countries that participated represented a total population of 1.5 billion people, 54% of the world’s population.
The conference was organised by Indonesia, Burma (Myanmar), Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and India.
The conference’s stated aims were to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation. The conference was an important step towards the eventual creation of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Price: 65.00 euro
Weight: 7500gr./264.5oz.
Complete works of Lenin letters, 11 parts. And with a book with letter exchanges between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
In the original Russian publication the Lenin Briefe was integrated within the 40 parts of the Lenin Werke making this 51 parts. In the DDR they decided that the Lenin Werke and Lenin briefe was going to be published in 2 seperate parts.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia, 1959. The label says:”January begins the All Union Census. Do your best to facilitate census”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label, late 50’s/early60’s from the famous Kometa matchbox factory.
The labels says:”About 300.000 Participants In Sport Games”.
Price: 0.25 euro
This Latvian matchbox label is made by the Kometa factory and is a promotion for a movie made in 1965.
Top of the label says:”Riga Movie Studio New Honeymoon Movie” and the bottom of the label says:”Tobago Changes Course”.
The Russian movie poster
(7.5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size box: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is the bronze medal for 5 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
(53.17.19)
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 69x51cm./27.1x20inch.
Propagandaposter from the Soviet Union with Stalin 1939.
The poster says:”All Union Agricultural Open August 1, 1939″. And:”Our exhibition not only sums up the past, but also serves as a powerful cry for the further advancement of the rural economy to the new glorious victories of socialism”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soyuz 30 was a 1978 manned Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. And the 2nd. Interkosmos mission. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first Polish cosmonaut.
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Soyuz 30 landing capsule at the Museum of Polish Military Technology in Warsaw
Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski
Price: 3.00 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Soyuz 28 was a 1978 Soviet manned mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station.
Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia became the first person launched into space who was not a citizen of the United States or the Soviet Union. The other crew member was Aleksei Gubarev. The flight was the first mission in the Intercosmos program that gave Eastern Bloc and other communist states access to space through manned and unmanned launches. 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.
Soyuz 28
Aleksei Gubarev and Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek and Aleksei Gubarev
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about Interkosmos with the Soyuz spacecraft flight Soyuz 37.
Soyuz 37 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 13th mission to and 11th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 37 crew were the third to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 37 carried Soviet Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan, the first Asian and first Vietnamese cosmonaut, into space.
In the Vietnam War, Pham Tuan (as a member of the North Vietnamese Airfoce) shot down a B-52 bomber.
Pham Tuan and Viktor Gorbatko
Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan after there return to earth
Price: 25.00 euro
Weight: 44gr./1.5oz.
This is an Chairman Mao Zedong watch. His hand is waving up and down every second.
Most of these watches are with a red background.
Very cool watch to wear. With this crazy watch you will be noticed at any party or gathering. Supercool. Cultural Revolution collectors call this the Mickey Mao watch because Walt Disney was the first to make a watch with a waving hand of Mickey Mouse. Obtained in China and taken out.
Also there are Mao Zedong clocks with waving hands.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. The postcard is from 1976.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. Shown on the postcard is the gigantic statue:”The Motherland Calls”.
The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” in Volgograd, Russia, former Stalingrad.
It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 metres (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest statue of a woman in the world. The construction of the monument was started in 1959 and completed in 1967. It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel. It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera.
Motherland Calls in Volvograd
Construction of Motherland Calls
Construction workers working on the statue
(10.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is the silver medal for 10 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 1.00 euro
Year: 1995
Minisheet from North Korea. 1995.
Price: 1.00 euro
Year: 1995
Minisheet from North Korea, 1995.
Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 8.7x7cm./3.4×2.7inch.
Year: 1995
Minisheet from North Korea, 1995.
Price: 25.00 euro
This is an Chairman Mao Zedong watch. His hand is waving up and down every second.
Most of these watches are with a red background.
Very cool watch to wear. With this crazy watch you will be noticed at any party or gathering. Supercool. Cultural Revolution collectors call this the Mickey Mao watch because Walt Disney was the first to make a watch with a waving hand of Mickey Mouse. Obtained in China and taken out.
Also there are Mao Zedong clocks with waving hands.
Price: 0.50 euro
Latvian matchbox label from the Kometa matchbox factory. Late 50’s, early 60’s. The text says:”Donor Blood Saves Lifes”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia featuring the Museum of Arts in capital Riga. The top of the labels says:”Latvia papaer and woodworking industry””. The bottom of the label says:”Art Museum” and beneath that:”Vezuvs Riga”. Vezuvs is a matchbox factory. The label is from end 50’s, early 60’s.
The museum of art in capital Riga
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from late 50’s, early 60’s. Tekst on top of the label is Latvian language and on the bottom Russian. They both say the same:”Rigas Central Department Store” and it is called Galerija Centrs.
Galerija Centrs is a shopping centre in Riga, Latvia. The centre opened in 1938 and presently occupies nearly an entire block in the historic Vecrīga neighborhood. The centre is 29 000 sq. m in size, and contains 110 shops.
Price: 35.00 euro
Poster from 1939 about Alexey Stakhanov.
Alexsei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (1906-1977) was a Russian Soviet miner.
He became a celebrity in 1935 as part of what became known as the Stakhanovite movement. A campaign intended to increase worker productivity and to demonstrate the superiority of the socialist economic system.
On 31 August 1935, it was reported that he had mined a record 102 tonnes of coal in 5 hours and 45 minutes (14 times his quota).
On 19 September, Stakhanov was reported to have set a new record by mining 227 tonnes of coal in a single shift. His example was held up in newspapers and posters as a model for others to follow, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in the United States. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and numerous medals.
The town of Kadievka in eastern Ukraine where he started his work was renamed Stakhanov in his honour in 1978, after his death in 1977.
Stakhanov’s records set an example throughout the country and gave birth to the Stakhanovite movement, where workers who exceeded production targets could become “Stakhanovites”.
Alexey on Time Magazine
Statue of Alexey in Stakhanov City
Alexey Stakhanov mining
Price: 1.50 euro
The city of Kaluga is known since 1371. These pins are made for celebrating 600 years of Kaluga so they are from 1971.
Kaluga is connected to Moscow by a railway line and by the ancient roadway, the Kaluga Road. This road offered Napoleon his favored escape route from the Moscow trap in the fall of 1812. But General Kutuzov repelled Napoleon’s advances in this direction and forced the retreating French army onto the old Smolensk road, previously devastated by the French during their invasion of Russia.
Also Kaluga is known for one of it’s most famous residents; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He was a pioneer in space research and invented the 3 stage rocket. So in Kaluga there is also a space museum in his honour.
Location of Kaluga
City of Kaluga
Flag of Kaluga
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Proton launch system.
Proton is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965. Modern versions of the launch system are still in use as of 2019, making it one of the most successful heavy boosters in the history of spaceflight.
All Protons are built at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center factory in Moscow, transported to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, brought to the launch pad horizontally, and raised into vertical position for launch.
Proton
Price: 2.50 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Pin about the Luna 16 1970 moon mission.
In 1970 Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. It represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and was the third lunar sample return mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.
Analysis of the dark basalt material indicated a close resemblance to soil recovered by the American Apollo 12 mission.
According to the Bochum Observatory in Germany, strong and good quality television pictures were returned by the spacecraft. Luna 16 was a landmark success for the Soviets in their deep space exploration program; the mission accomplished the first fully automatic recovery of soil samples from the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
Three tiny samples (0.2 grams) of the Luna 16 soil were sold at Sotheby’s auction for $442,500 in 1993.
On November 29, 2018 The Luna 16 fragments sold for US$ 855,000 at Sotheby’s.
Luna 16 landing on the moon
Launch of the Luna soil sample back to earth
Returning to earth
(90.85.19)
(150.21)
Price: 150.00 euro
Size: 17×10.5cm./6.6×4.1inch.
Weight: 734gr./25.8oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Stalin clock made by the Serdobsky Factory probaby in the 1950’s. In decent condition considering it’s age. On the top one knob is missing. Very unique item.
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 dictatorship.
Stalin portrait
Stalin propaganda poster
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from 1979, Soviet Union, to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”. Shown is the Soviet War Memorial. The war memorial and military cemetery is in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany. The soldier is Nikolai Masalov who is standing on a broken swastika and holding a child. In WWII Masalov saved a German girl who was seperated from her mother.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Happy Victory Day”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard about the 9th of May. The postcard says:”Celebration Of Victory”.
9 May is Victory Day. It is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender, as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
(15.19)
(15.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is the gold medal for 20 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 0,75 euro
Year: 1995
Set of 3 stamps about the International Sports and Cultural Festival for Peace, Pyongyang.
Price: 0.20 euro
Year: 1995
Stamp about the International Stamp Exhibition “FINLANDIA ’95” Helsinki, Finland.
Price: 1.00 euro
Year: 1995
Minisheet about the International Stamp Exhibition “FINLANDIA ’95” Helsinki, Finland.
(15.19)
(9.24.19)
Price: 15.00 euro
This hammer and sickle tie is made in the Netherlands. Transworld was a shipping agency in Rotterdam Harbour for handling Soviet cargo ships.
As the story goes Transworld was a cover up for Soviet spies and KGB agents. They wanted to know how the Dutch Secret Service (BVD) worked, how the Rotterdam harbour can be taken out in wartime and on what location USA army cargo was being processed.
Although this story was never confirmed, the Dutch Secret Service kept a close eye on the company. Transworld started in 1972 and went bankrupt in 1995.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia. Late50’s/early 60’s.
“Kometa” match factory started production in 1914. In 1992 the factory was privatized.. In the last years the factory has gone through big changes. There were reconstructed and built new production buildings and warehouses; production equipment changed to modern Swedish and German production lines. “Kometa” is now the biggest producer of matches in Latvian and Baltic states (as of 2019).
Former Kometa factory logo.
Price: 0.25 euro
Space matchbox label from Soviet Russia. Part of a serie. From late 50’s/early 60’s.
Price: 0.50 euro
Matchbox set of cleaning housewife. One orange and one lightgreen label.
The text on the label says:”Electric Vacuum Cleaner In Each Apartment”. From late 50’s/early 60’s.
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