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Wallpiece Soviet Russia WPSR085 Felix Dzerzhinsky

Posted by Iljin on 1 August 2021
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(37.5.21)

Price: 48.75 euro
Size: 31.5x25cm./12.4×9.8inch.
Weight: 693gr./24.4oz.

Old wallpiece with Felix Dzerzhinsky. The portrait is made of messing and there is writings on the back. See video. Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), nicknamed “Iron Felix”, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the KGB.
Dzerzhinsky spent four and a half years in tsarist prisons. Dzerzhinsky was beaten frequently by the Russian prison guards, which caused the permanent disfigurement of his jaw and mouth. In 1916, Dzerzhinsky was moved to the Moscow Butyrka prison, where he was soon hospitalized because the chains that he was forced to wear had caused severe cramps in his legs. Despite the prospects of amputation, Dzerzhinsky recovered and was put to labor sewing military uniforms.
Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from prison after the February Revolution of 1917. Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats known as Cheka. The Cheka undertook drastic measures as thousands of political opponents and saboteurs were eliminated. Besides his leadership of the secret police, Dzerzhinsky also took on a number of other roles; he led the fight against typhus in 1918, was chair of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1923, initiated a vast orphanage construction program, chaired the Transport Commissariat, organised the embalming of Lenin’s body in 1924 and chaired the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema.
A 15-ton iron monument of Dzerzhinsky, which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters, also became known as Iron Felix.


Book North Korea General BNKG019 New Looks Of Chongsan Ri 1984

Posted by Iljin on 1 August 2021
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Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 21.5x15cm./8.4×5.9inch.
Weight: 139gr./4.0oz.
Year: 1984
Pages: 106

Book made in North Korea, 1984. From the book:”Chongsan Ri is the historic place where the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung created the Chonsang Ri method. It is a glorious place wich he is building up as a model of communist rural communities. With the intention of developing our rural areas splendidly, the great leader visited Chingsan Ri more than 80 times to build it up as a model for them.
The field paths and roads of the villages he walked during these visits will add up to thousands of Ri.”.

FDC Soviet Russia Space FSR094 Sergei Korolev 1976

Posted by Iljin on 25 July 2021
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Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1976

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1976, with the image of Sergei Korolev. The text on the envelope reads:”Monument to the designer of rocket and space systems, twice hero of socialist labor, academician S.P. 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, launching Laika, Belka and Strelka and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space. 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, including some months in a Kolyma labour camp.
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 crewed Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission.

Statue Soviet Russia SSR040 Towards The Stars Statue

Posted by Iljin on 19 July 2021
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(R.65.21)

Price: 84.00 euro
Size: 23.5cm./9.2inch.
Weight: 710gr./25oz.

Statue made in the Soviet Union. It is modelled from the “Towards The Stars” monument. Made of bronze. The Sculpture “Towards the Stars” has been installed at the main entrance to the Catherine Park (then park of Central House of the Russian Army) in 1958, a year after the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth and the three years prior to the flight of Yuri Gagarin into space. Like Prometheus carrying fire to mankind, the sculpture depicts a young, half-naked and powerful titan in a loincloth. Like a flare into the sky, he launches a missile that rushes into the infinite blue sky toward new discoveries and adventures.

Book North Korea Kim Il Sung BNKKIS017 Let Us Accomplish The Cause Of Socialism And Communism Under The Revolutionary Banner Of Juche 1988

Posted by Iljin on 16 July 2021
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 50gr./1.7oz.
Pages: 38
Year: 1988

Book made in North Korea, 1988. Report delivered at the meeting to celebrate the 40th. anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea September 8, 1988.

Book North Korea Kim Jong Il BNKKJI012 On Thoroughly Establishing The System Of Party Leadership 1992

Posted by Iljin on 16 July 2021
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Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 28gr./0.9oz.
Pages: 16
Year: 1992

Book made in North Korea, 1992. Speech at a consultative meeting of senior offiicials of the organizational leadership department and the propaganda and agitation department of the central committee of the Worker’s Party of Korea, April 28, 1979.

Book North Korea Kim Il Sung BNKKIS015 Defender Of Chajusong 1984

Posted by Iljin on 14 July 2021
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 140gr./0.7oz.
Pages: 149
Year: 1984

Book made in North Korea, 1984. Chajusong is an important part of the Juche ideology to which North Korea is based. It stands for independence because Man must be master about themselves, nature and the future. Chajusong is influenced by creativity and independence.

Book North Korea Kim Jong Il BNKKJI010 The Genuine People’s Leader 1987

Posted by Iljin on 14 July 2021
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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18.5×12.5cm./7.2×4.9inch.
Weight: 91gr./3.2oz.
Pages: 122
Year: 1987

Book made in North Korea, 1987. L. Tapani Keskinen, director of the board of the international Institute of the Juche Idea , visited Korea in 1973, 1982 and 1983. After his return he wrote the book Kim Jong Il-The Genuine People’s Leader in English and published it in Finland. In 1987 the DPRK published the book in several languages.

Book China BC051 The Ninth National Congress Of The Communist Party Of China 1969

Posted by Iljin on 13 July 2021
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Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch.
Pages: 175
Year: 1969

Book made in China, 1969. About the 9th. national congress of the Communistic Party of China. The 9th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was a congress in China during the height of the Cultural Revolution. It was held in Beijing, in the Great Hall of the People, China, between April 1 and 24, 1969.
The Congress formally ratified the political purge of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, and elevated Mao’s radical allies to power. 1.512 delegates were represented at the Congress, although they were not all members of the Party. A significant number represented Red Guards groups, and there was a marked increase in the size of the PLA delegation, many of whom were loyal to Lin Biao. At the Congress, Mao’s “continuous revolution” ideology was written into the Party Constitution. Lin Biao was named “the close comrade-in-arms of Chairman Mao and his successor”.

FDC Soviet Russia Space FSR092 Cosmonautic Day 1967

Posted by Iljin on 11 July 2021
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Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1967

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1967. 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.

FDC Soviet Russia Space FSR088 Gherman Titov 1962

Posted by Iljin on 10 July 2021
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Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1962

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1962. The text on the envelope reads:”Glory To The Hero Cosmonauts. G. Titov”.

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.
Titov’s flight finally proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), the first to pilot a spaceship and to spend more than a day in space. He was also the first to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness (becoming the first person to vomit in space). Titov made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern space photography. He also was the first person to film the Earth using a professional movie camera, which he used for ten minutes. In his subsequent life Titov continued to work for the Soviet space program, and played a major role in the Spiral project where he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital spaceplane.
However, after the death of Yuri Gagarin in a military aircraft accident in 1968, the Soviet government decided it could not afford to lose its second cosmonaut, and so Titov’s career as test pilot ended.
Titov served in the Soviet Air Force, attaining the rank of colonel-general. In his final years in post-Soviet Russia he became a Communist politician. Despite having been chosen second, after Gagarin, to fly into space, it was Titov who later proposed the Soviet Government regularly celebrate Cosmonautics Day on April 12, the day of Gagarin’s flight.

FDC Soviet Russia Space FSR087 Sergei Korolev 1981

Posted by Iljin on 10 July 2021
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Price: 2.50 euro
Year: 1981

FDC made in the Soviet Union, 1981. The text on the postcard reads:”Academician S.P. Korolov75th. Birthday”.
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, launching Laika, Belka and Strelka and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space. 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, including some months in a Kolyma labour camp.
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 crewed Moon landing before the United States 1969 mission.

Poster China Original PCO013 Spring In Dazhai 1975

Posted by Iljin on 7 July 2021
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(60.9.21)

Price: 90 euro
Size: 77x53cm./30.3×20.8inch.
Year: 1975

Original poster from China made in 1975. Printed on thin paper with some imperfections. on the bottom. See pictures. Th text on the poster reads:”Spring In Dazhai”.
Dazhai s a village and former commune of several hundred farmers in Xiyang County in eastern Shanxi province, chiefly known for Mao Zedong’s directive, “Learn from Dazhai in agriculture”, which set up Dazhai as the model for agricultural production throughout China during the 1960s and 1970s, amid the Cultural Revolution. Numerous newspaper and magazine stories and books as well as films were published nationwide about how hard and diligently the villagers of Dazhai had worked to build the village into one with not only well-managed fields and bountiful crops, but engineering marvels such as amazing reservoirs and grandiose aqueducts crossing deep valleys for irrigation. They allegedly worked on their own on the principle of self-reliance, without any financial and technical support from the government.

Poster China Original PCO005 The Story Of Dong Cunrui

Posted by Iljin on 3 July 2021
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(60.9.21)

Price: 115.00 euro
Size: 77x53cm./30.3×20.8inch.

Original poster from China made in the 1970’s, Printed on thin paper with some minor imperfections. Children are gathering and one of the is reading out of the book about Don Cunrui.
Dong Cunrui was a Chinese Communist soldier in the People’s Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War who blew himself up in order to destroy a Kuomintang bunker. Under heavy fire, he reached the bunker, but there was no place to effectively position the explosives. Reportedly shouting “For a new China!”, he detonated the explosives he carried, killing himself and the defenders within the bunker.
He was posthumously awarded three “Bravery Medals” and one “Mao Zedong Medal”, and his squad was titled “Dong Cunrui Training Model Squad”. His sacrifice was heavily publicized by the Communists, who called him a hero and model communist, and he remains well known in China. He was depicted in a 1955 film Dong Cunrui directed by Guo Wei, and a 2009 TV miniseries titled For a new China, forward. His story was also published in national elementary Chinese textbooks.

Poster China Original PCO002 Kelp Harvesting At Sea 1975

Posted by Iljin on 2 July 2021
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(60.9.21)

Price: 115.00 euro
Size: 77x53cm./30.3×20.8inch.
Year: 1975

Original poster from China made in 1975, printed on thin paper. This beautiful poster, whose theme is the sea, the fishermen and the science of marine elements, illustrates the research and scientific approach that prevails in China in many aspects of food production. The science of cultivation contribute to the quantitative and qualitative improvement in aquatic harvest, so important for China’s substance and food level. The image shows the scientific control of algae and kelp.

Stamp North Korea People SNKP053 53rd Anniversary Of The Birth Of Kim Jong Il 1995

Posted by Iljin on 2 July 2021
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Price: 1.25 euro
Size: 9.6×7.5cm./3.7×2.9inch.
Year: 1995

Minisheet made in North Korea for the anniversary of the 53rd. brithday of Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il was the son of Kim Il Sung (ruler of North Korea from 1948 until 1991).
After the death of Kim Il Sung in 1991 Kim Jong Il became the leader of North Korea. He ruled North Korea for 17 years ending when he died in 2011. Kim’s nickname in North Korea was “Dear Leader” to distinquish him from his father who is known as “Great Leader”.
After his death, Kim was designated the “Eternal General Secretary” of the WPK and the “Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission”.
After the death of Kim Jong Il in 2011, his son Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea and he still is (as of 2021)


Pin DDR PD099 FDGB 60

Posted by Iljin on 29 June 2021
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Price: 1.50 euro

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.

Pin DDR PD098 FDGB 50

Posted by Iljin on 29 June 2021
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Price: 1.50 euro

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.

Pin DDR PD097 FDGB 40

Posted by Iljin on 29 June 2021
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Price: 1.50 euro

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.

Various Soviet Russia VSR080 6th. World Festival Of Youth Parfum Set 1957

Posted by Iljin on 28 June 2021
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(R.32.21)

Price: 42.00 euro
Weight: 130gr./4.5oz.

6th. World Youth Festival Moscow 1957 Perfume bottles in box. Sadly one bottle is missing. The text on the box reads:”6th. World Festival Of Youths And Students, Moscow, 1957″.
The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students was opened on 28 July 1957, in Moscow, Soviet Union. The festival attracted 34,000 people from 130 countries. This became possible after the political changes initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. It was the first World Festival of Youth and Students held in the Soviet Union.
A minor international incident was provoked around the attendance of left-wing Iraqi writer Ga’ib Tu’ma Farman at the festival. The Iraqi government revoked Farman’s citizenship while he was abroad, effectively stranding him in Moscow as a stateless person. This situation was resolved by the intervention of the Chinese delegation who agreed to officially invite Farman to Beijing. He went on to work for Foreign Languages Press.

Various Hungary VH008 Cold War Atom Bomb Instruction Map

Posted by Iljin on 28 June 2021
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(R.95.21)

Price: 123.00 euro
Size: 63x49cm./24.8×19.2inch.
Weight: 4530gr./159oz.

Cold War nuclear bomb attack instruction map. Large folder of cards with black and white photos pasted on cardboard boards for instruction Also a kind of Geiger counter wall plate where various measurements can be displayed to indicate the seriousness of the situation.
All nuclear bomb types, their functioning, what it does to you, how it is formed, fall out, how to build nuclear bomb cellars, etc. etc. are explained. After instruction the folder was tied with cords and on to the next instruction location. Beautiful cold war relic I don’t think you’ll ever see anything like that again. Folder is tied by 8 ribbons.

Various Soviet Russia VSR079 Model Ostankino Tower

Posted by Iljin on 27 June 2021
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(R.34.21)

Price: 44.00 euro
Size: 49.5cm./19.4inch.
Weight: 143gr./5oz.

Big model of the Ostankono Tower in Moscow. Made in 3 parts from Aluminium. Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow owned by the Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network build ij 1967. Standing 540.1 metres (1,772 ft), Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently the tallest free standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower was the first free standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. Ostankino was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It is named after the surrounding Ostankino district of Moscow.