Busts

BSR018 Bust Soviet Russia Felix Dzerzhinsky Porcelain

Posted by Iljin on 19 December 2022
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(R.57.5.22)

Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 27x16cm./10.6×6.2inch.
Weight: 1595gr./56.2oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Porcelain bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix).
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.

BD004 Bust DDR Karl Marx Meissen Porcelain

Posted by Iljin on 6 November 2022
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(95.22)

Price: 123.00 euro
Size: 14.5×8.5cm./5.7×3.3inch.
Weight: 390gr./13.7oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Bust of Karl Marx made in the DDR. Made of porcelain by Meissen with the two crossed swords on the back. Beautiful bust.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.

Bust Karl Marx BKM005

Posted by Iljin on 28 September 2022
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(95.22)

Price: 80.00 euro
Size: 14.5×8.5cm./5.7×3.3inch.
Weight: 390gr./13.7inch.
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Excellent porcelain bust of Marx still made in the DDR. On the back of the base the crossed swords of Meissen. Under # R226 + 95A and again the Meissen sign. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.

Bust Lenin BL054

Posted by Iljin on 12 September 2022
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(R.29.22)

Price: 40.00 euro
Height: 20cm./7.8inch.
Weight: 1050gr./37oz.
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Bust of Lenin made in the Soviet Union. Made of metal and on a wooden socket.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL053

Posted by Iljin on 12 September 2022
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(R.42.5.22)

Price: 55.00 euro
Height: 17.5cm./6.8inch.
Weight: 1233gr./43.4oz.
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Bust of Lenin made in the Soviet Union. Made of aluminium. In very good condition.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR017 Felix Dzerzhinsky

Posted by Iljin on 29 June 2022
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(R.80.22)

Price: 105.00 euro
Size: 31x12cm./12.2×4.7inch.
Weight: 500gr./17.6oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix). Made of plastic with a bronze layer on it.
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), nicknamed “Iron Felix”, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the KGB.
Dzerzhinsky spent four and a half years in tsarist prisons. Dzerzhinsky was beaten frequently by the Russian prison guards, which caused the permanent disfigurement of his jaw and mouth. In 1916, Dzerzhinsky was moved to the Moscow Butyrka prison, where he was soon hospitalized because the chains that he was forced to wear had caused severe cramps in his legs. Despite the prospects of amputation, Dzerzhinsky recovered and was put to labor sewing military uniforms.
Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from prison after the February Revolution of 1917. Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats known as Cheka. The Cheka undertook drastic measures as thousands of political opponents and saboteurs were eliminated. Besides his leadership of the secret police, Dzerzhinsky also took on a number of other roles; he led the fight against typhus in 1918, was chair of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1923, initiated a vast orphanage construction program, chaired the Transport Commissariat, organised the embalming of Lenin’s body in 1924 and chaired the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema.
A 15-ton iron monument of Dzerzhinsky, which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters, also became known as Iron Felix.

Bust Lenin BL051 Big With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 12 June 2022
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(R.250.22)

Price: 325.00 euro
Size: 55x60cm./21.6×23.6inch.
Weight: 16500gr./582oz.
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Bust of Lenin made with signature. The statue is made of plaster reinforced with flax (see photo) and has a signature on the back and a kind of logo. They look like initials. A GK or KG.​
Statue has been in a town hall and was removed in 1986, name of the place and year are written in the statue. It then went into storage until now. See photos, statue does have some damage of course and has not been cleaned, polished or refurbished, completely original.

Bust Stalin BS007 Big And Heavy

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2022
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(60.22)

Price: 295.00 euro
Size: 40.5×25.5cm./15.9x10inch.
Weight: 4260gr./150oz.
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Stunning and impressive old bust of Stalin. Big and heavy. Made of stone.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his leadership.

Bust Mao BM015 Mao Zedong

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2022
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(50.21)

Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 27.5×22.5cm./10.8×8.8inch.
Weight: 876gr./30.8oz.
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Porcelain bust with the image of Mao Zedong. Beautiful big bust. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.

Bust Lenin BL048 Big, Heavy And Old

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2022
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(60.22)

Price: 225.00 euro
Size: 36.5x27cm./14.3×10.6inch.
Weight: 4685gr./165.2oz.
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Imressive bust of Lenin. Made of some kind of stone or plaster. Handmade. Old bust with patina and it has been touched by time. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR016 Yuri Gagarin First Man In Space

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2022
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(20.22)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 14.5x10cm./5.7×3.9inch.
Weight: 747gr./26.3oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Bust of Yuri Gagarin made in the Soviet Union. Made of metal. 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.

Bust Cuba BC003 Jose Marti With Signature 1953

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2022
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(15.21)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 12x7cm./4.7×2.7inch.
Weight: 346gr./12.2oz.
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Bust made in Cuba of Jose Marti. On the front of the bust is a signature and on the back it reads:”National Commission of Centennial Jose Marti 1853-1953″.
José Julian Martí y Pérez (1853-1895) was one of the leaders during the Cuban Independence War and also a valued poet and writer. Nowadays he is seen as Cuba’s most important national hero. In Vedado is the Martí Monument and the Cuba cemetery in Santiago de Cuba is a mausoleum in his memory.
In addition to a great writer, poet and journalist, Martí was also a painter. In 1867 he followed drawing and painting lessons at the Havana art academy. Partly because an independence revolt had broken out in Oriente, the colonial authorities were not pleased with criticism and José Martí was arrested in March 1869 and thrown in prison.
Four months later during the court session, Martí accepted the responsibility for this accusation and in his final plea he claimed Cuba’s right to independence. He was sentenced to six years in prison. On April 11, 1895, Martí led a landing of Cuban bannings and joined the troops of the Rebal General Máximo Gómez. Martí died during a battle against Spanish troops in the Battle of Dos Ríos on May 19, 1895.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR015 Yuri Gagarin First Man In Space

Posted by Iljin on 10 March 2022
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(40.22)

Price: 225.00 euro
Size: 22.5x20cm./8.8×7.8inch.
Weight: 1944gr./33.3oz.
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Impressive bust of Yuri Gagarin made in the Soviet Union. In very good condition. Made of porcelain. 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.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR014 Felix Dzerzhinsky With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 10 March 2022
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Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 23×10.5cm./9×4.1inch.
Weight: 1944gr./68.5oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix). Made of bronze with signature of the artist. This bust is old with a lot of patina. With signature.
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.

Busts DDR BD003 Karl Marx

Posted by Iljin on 10 March 2022
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(50.20)

Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 28×15.5cm./11×6.1inch.
Weight: 2159gr./76.1oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Bust of Karl Marx made in the DDR. Made of stone but more likely a dark porcelain. Big and heavy. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.

Busts DDR BD002 Karl Marx

Posted by Iljin on 10 March 2022
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(40.20)

Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 22×15.5cm./8.6×6.1inch.
Weight: 544gr./19.1oz.
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Bust of Karl Marx made in the DDR. Made of stone but more likely a dark porcelain. Big and heavy. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR013 Felix Dzerzhinsky With Signature 1958

Posted by Iljin on 17 January 2022
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(R.97.5.21)

Price: 120.00 euro
Size: 26.5cm./10.4inch.
Weight: 2423gr./85.4oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix). Made of metal with signature of the artist.
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.

Bust Lenin BL045

Posted by Iljin on 21 December 2021
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(R.69.21)

Price: 89.00 euro
Size: 26.5x14cm./10.4×5.5inch.
Weight: 2077gr./73.2oz.
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Bust of Lenin made from metal, with signature. Heavy and big.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL044 With Signature 1961

Posted by Iljin on 21 December 2021
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(R.69.21)

Price: 89.00 euro
Size: 28x14cm./11×5.5inch.
Weight: 1621gr./57.1oz.
Year: 1961
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Bust of V.I. Lenin of a non-magnetic metal. . Sculptor: V. Sychev 1961. Factory, Monumental sculptures, Leningrad. On the back is the name of the artist and also some other text. The year 1961 is also on the back. Lenin is standing on a very nice, exact fit piece of hardwood which makes the whole very chic.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR012 Felix Dzerzhinsky

Posted by Iljin on 19 December 2021
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(R.92.5.21)

Price: 120.00 euro
Size: 23×12.5cm./9×4.9inch.
Weight: 2270gr./80oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Felix Dzerzhinsky, better known as the head of the KGB (and as Iron Felix). Image is made of a non-magnetic metal with bronze layer and is on a marble pedestal.
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.

Bust Cuba BC002 Camilo Cienfuegos

Posted by Iljin on 3 November 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 24x14cm./9.4×5.5inch.
Weight: 1746gr./61.5oz.
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Bust made in Cuba of Camilo Cienfuegos. Very rare and old bust made of plaster. The bust has been touched by time, with some chips and at one time somebody repainted the bust. Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (1932-1959) was a Cuban revolutionary born in Havana. Along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro, he was a member of the 1956 Granma expedition, which launched Fidel Castro’s armed insurgency against the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He became one of Castro’s top guerilla commanders, known as the “Hero of Yaguajay” after winning a key battle of the Cuban Revolution.
He was appointed head of Cuba’s armed forces shortly after the victory of Castro’s rebel army in 1959. He was presumed dead when a small plane he was traveling in disappeared during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana later that year. Many have speculated and conspiracies have arisen concerning his mysterious disappearance. Cienfuegos, whose name translates in English to “a hundred fires,” is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honor.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR011 Sergei Yesenin With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(35.21)

Price: 49.00 euro
Size: 21×20.5cm./8.2x8inch.
Weight: 1270gr./44.7oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Sergei Yesenin. Made in the 1960’s. Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895-1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for “his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation.
On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in St Petersburg. His last poem Goodbye my friend, goodbye was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his blood.

Bust Lenin BL041 With Signature 1977

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(35.21)

Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 21.5×22.5cm./8.4×8.8inch.
Weight: 1620gr./57.1oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union with the image of Lenin. With signature and date (1977). Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Karl Marx BKM004 Made By Lev Kerbel

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(20.21)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 20x18cm./7.8x7inch.
Weight: 1337gr./47.1inch.
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Beautiful bust of Karl Marx made by Lev Kerbel. The bust is made of plaster and on some spots the paint is gone. Someby in time filled the white spots in with a grey color. In the German city of Chemnitz there still is this gigantic bust of Karl Marx present. Lev Efimovich Kerbel (1917-2003) was a sculptor of Soviet realist works. Kerbel’s creations included statues of Marx, Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world.
In the 1990s following the collapse of the socialist bloc many of his works of art were destroyed. However his enormous Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz, formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt, has been preserved as a cultural monument.
Kerbel was born to a Russian Jewish family in the village of Semyonovka in Russia (currently Ukraine) on the day that the Winter Palace in Petrograd was stormed by the Bolsheviks setting off the October Revolution.
During World War II, Kerbel helped build the defenses for the Battle of Moscow, then served in the Northern Fleet.
After the war, Kerbel’s career took off with a wide range of commissions. In 1958 he sculpted a statue in China that depicted a huge Soviet and an equally large Chinese worker hand in hand. When Soviet-Chinese relations foundered a few years later, the statue was torn down by a mob. While some people dismiss Kerbel’s works as a form of flat Communist propaganda, Kerbel himself said that he was always more interested in art than politics. Many people now view his few remaining statues with nostalgia, particularly in Chemnitz (formerly known as Karl Marx Stadt, where his bust of Karl Marx is referred to as ‘the head’.
One of Kerbel’s last works was the memorial to the crew of the Kursk submarine, inaugurated in Moscow in 2003.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR010 Leo Tolstoy With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(20.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 19x8cm./7.4×3.1inch.
Weight: 672gr./23.7oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Bust made in the Soviet Union of a Leo Tolstoy. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major controversy.
Tolstoy died of pneumonia at Astapovo railway station, after a day’s train journey south.mThe station master took Tolstoy to his apartment, and his personal doctors arrived and gave him injections of morphine and camphor. The police tried to limit access to his funeral procession, but thousands of peasants lined the streets. According to some sources, Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers on the train.

Bust Lenin BL040 Stone

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(35.21)

Price: 49.00 euro
Size: 22.5×15.5cm./7.4×5.7inch.
Weight: 3334gr./28.4oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union with the image of Lenin. Very heavy bust made from some kind of stone. Somewhat touched by the hands of time. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL039 With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(35.21)

Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 19×14.5cm./7.4×5.7inch.
Weight: 807gr./28.4oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union with the image of Lenin. With signature. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR009 Sergei Yesenin With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 13×10.5cm./5.1×4.1inch.
Weight: 355gr./12.5oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Sergei Yesenin. With signature. Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895-1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for “his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation.
On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in St Petersburg. His last poem Goodbye my friend, goodbye was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his blood.

Bust Lenin BL038 With Signature 1979

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(35.21)

Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 22.5x13cm./8.8×5.1inch.
Weight: 1165gr./41oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, 1979, with the image of Lenin. With signature. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL037

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(20.21)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 17x12cm./6.6×4.7inch.
Weight: 469gr./16.5oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, 1987, with the image of Lenin. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL036

Posted by Iljin on 2 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 12.5x8cm./4.9×3.1inch.
Weight: 305gr./10.7oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, 1987, with the image of Lenin. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL035

Posted by Iljin on 1 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 10.5×5cm./4.1×1.9inch.
Weight: 938gr./33oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, 1987, with the image of Lenin. Very heavy. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR008 Mikhail Sholokhov With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 1 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 14.5×9.5cm./5.7×3.7inch.
Weight: 555gr./19.5oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, with Mikhail Sholokhov. With signature. Made in the cold war era. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don. Sholokhov met Joseph Stalin in 1930, and subsequently was one of very few people who dared to give the dictator a truthful account of what was happening in the country and nonetheless was not punished. In the 1930s, he wrote several letters to Stalin from his home in Veshenskaya about the appalling conditions in the kolkhozes and sovkhozes along the Don, requesting assistance for the farmers.
In January 1931, he warned: “Comrade Stalin, without exaggeration, conditions are catastrophic!”. On 4 April 1933, he sent a long letter in which, among many other details, he named two OGPU officers whom he accused of torturing prisoners from his district.
Stalin reacted by sending a senior official, Matvei Shkiryatov, to investigate. The two officers were arrested and sentenced to death; their sentences were later revoked, but they were banned from working in Sholokhov’s home village. Stalin also arranged for extra food to be sent to Veshenskaya and the neighbouring district.
During World War II, Sholokhov wrote about the Soviet war effort for various journals. He also covered the devastation caused by Wehrmacht troops along the Don. His mother was killed when Veshenskaya was bombed in 1942. Sholokhov’s unfinished novel They Fought for Their Country is about World War II (known in the Soviet Union, and now in Russia, as the Great Patriotic War). Sholokhov’s collected works were published in eight volumes between 1956 and 1960, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
Mikhail Sholokhov died on 21 February 1984, from laryngeal cancer.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Bust Lenin BL034 With Signature 1987

Posted by Iljin on 1 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 13×5.5cm./5.1×2.1inch.
Weight: 243gr./8.5oz.
Year: 1987
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Bust made in the Soviet Union, 1987, with the image of Lenin. With signature. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL033

Posted by Iljin on 1 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 10.5x7cm./4.1×2.7inch.
Weight: 387gr./13.6oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union 1970’s, early 1980’s. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR006 Sergei Yesenin

Posted by Iljin on 1 November 2021
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(10.21)

Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 11.5×5.5cm./4.5×2.1inch.
Weight: 425gr./14.9oz.
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Bust made in the Soviet Union of Sergei Yesenin. Made in the 1970’s or early 1980’s. Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (1895-1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for “his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation.
On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in St Petersburg. His last poem Goodbye my friend, goodbye was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his blood.

Bust Lenin BL032 With Signature

Posted by Iljin on 25 October 2021
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(35.21)

Price 55.00 euro
Size: 20×11.5cm./7.8×4.5inch.
Weight: 1390gr./49oz.
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Bust of Lenin with signature. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL031 Very Heavy And Signed

Posted by Iljin on 25 October 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 85.00 euro
Size 27.5x18cm./10.8x7inch.
Weight: 4100gr./145oz.
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Big and very heavy bust of Lenin. On the back there is the artist’s signature. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Mao BM014 Longlive Chairman Mao

Posted by Iljin on 18 October 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 21×16.5cm./8.2×6.4inch.
Weight: 680gr./23.9oz.
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Porcelain bust with the image of Mao Zedong. The text on the bust reads:”Longlive Chairman Mao”. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.

Bust Mao BM012 Longlive Chairman Mao

Posted by Iljin on 18 October 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 23.5x17cm./9.2×6.6inch.
Weight: 930gr./33oz.
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Porcelain bust of Mao Zedong. The text on the front of the bust reads:”Longlive Chairman Mao”. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.

Bust Mao BM010 Porcelain Bust Mao Zedong

Posted by Iljin on 18 October 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 26.5x21cm./10.4×8.2inch.
Weight: 1176gr./41.4oz.
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Bust made in China, Mao Zedong, made of porcelain. Beautiful bust. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.

Bust Lenin BL030 Herend Porcelain Hungary

Posted by Iljin on 17 October 2021
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(R.65.22) (30.21)

Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 16.5x11cm./6.4×4.3inch.
Weight: 300gr./10.5oz.
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Beautiful Lenin bust made in the famous Herend Porcelain factory in Hungary. As usual for Lenin and Stalin busts from Herend, the head is not polished. The Herend Porcelain Manufactory is a Hungarian manufacturing company, specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain. Founded in 1826, it is based in the town of Herend near the city of Veszprém. In the mid-19th century it was purveyor to the Habsburg Dynasty and aristocratic customers throughout Europe. Many of its classic patterns are still in production.
After the fall of Communism in Hungary the factory was privatised and is now 75% owned by its management and workers. As of 2006, the factory is profitable and exports to over 60 countries of the world. Its main markets are Italy, Japan, Russia and the US.

Bust Bulgaria BB001 Georgi Dimitrov

Posted by Iljin on 16 October 2021
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(75.21)

Price: 98.00 euro
Size: 34x19cm./13.3×7.4inch.
Weight: 7208gr./254oz.
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Big and heavy bust from Georgi Dimitrov. Has got some errosion spots on it. Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (1882-1949) was a Bulgarian communist politician. He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. Dimitrov led the Communist International from 1935 to 1943.
Dimitrov died on 2 July 1949 in the Barvikha sanatorium near Moscow. The rising speculations that he had been poisoned have never been confirmed, although his health seemed to deteriorate quite abruptly. The supporters of the poisoning theory claim that Stalin did not like the “Balkan Federation” idea of Dimitrov and his closeness with Tito. Others, most notably Enver Hoxha, suppose that Dimitrov was poisoned by Nikitia Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, and other anti-Stalinists in the Soviet leadership. After the funeral, Dimitrov’s body was embalmed and placed on display in Sofia’s Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum. After the fall of Communism in Bulgaria, his body was buried in Sofia’s central cemetery in 1990. His mausoleum was torn down in 1999.

Bust Cuba BC001 Jose Marti

Posted by Iljin on 16 October 2021
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(50.21)

Price: 135.00 euro
Size: 28×13.5cm./11×5,3inch.
Weight: 9500gr./335oz.
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Very old and extremely heavy bust of Jose Marti. It has been touched by time and has a beautiful patina. José Julian Martí y Pérez (1853-1895) was one of the leaders during the Cuban Independence War and also a valued poet and writer. Nowadays he is seen as Cuba’s most important national hero. In Vedado is the Martí Monument and the Cuba cemetery in Santiago de Cuba is a mausoleum in his memory.
In addition to a great writer, poet and journalist, Martí was also a painter. In 1867 he followed drawing and painting lessons at the Havana art academy. Partly because an independence revolt had broken out in Oriente, the colonial authorities were not pleased with criticism and José Martí was arrested in March 1869 and thrown in prison.
Four months later during the court session, Martí accepted the responsibility for this accusation and in his final plea he claimed Cuba’s right to independence. He was sentenced to six years in prison. On April 11, 1895, Martí led a landing of Cuban bannings and joined the troops of the Rebal General Máximo Gómez. Martí died during a battle against Spanish troops in the Battle of Dos Ríos on May 19, 1895.

Bust Lenin BL029 Lenin Shiny Aluminium Bust

Posted by Iljin on 12 September 2021
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(R.35.21)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 16cm./6.2inch.
Weight: 921gr./32.4inch.

Lenin bust made of polished aluminium. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Soviet Russia BSR005 Felix Dzerzhinsky

Posted by Iljin on 22 May 2021
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(R.87.5.21)

Price: 113.00 euro
Size: 22cm./8.6inch.
Weight: 2177gr./76oz.

Beautiful bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky on a wooden base. Very heavy.
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.

Bust Mao BM008 Very Big Old Mao Zedong Bust

Posted by Iljin on 13 May 2021
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(500.21)

Price: 1500.00 euro
Size: 65x60cm./25.5×23.6inch.
Weight 3500gr./123oz.
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Very big old Mao Zedong bust, made of porcelain. Very heavy. For years the bust was in possession by a family of a very famous interiour designer in the Netherlands who passed away in 2020.
They got it from some hippies who went to China and took the bust with them. The bust is in great condition with inscriptions on the back side and on the bottom. On the back bottom there is a chip off the bust, see the pictures. On the bottom itself there is a stain. Probably a old wet stain. On that spot the plaster is showing cracks but not in the porcelain itself. Overall in very good condition consider it’s age.

Bust Stalin BS006 Modern Copper Stalin Bust

Posted by Iljin on 4 May 2021
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(27.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 16.5×12.5cm./6.4×4.9inch.
Weight: 850gr./30oz.

Modern, detailed copper bust of Stalin.
Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his leadership.

Bust Lenin BL026 Modern Copper Bust Lenin

Posted by Iljin on 4 May 2021
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(27.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 16.5x10inch./6.4×3.9inch.
Weight: 719gr./25.3oz.

Modern copper Lenin bust, detailed.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Lenin BL023

Posted by Iljin on 3 May 2021
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Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 28x12cm./11×4.7inch.
Weight: 1960gr./69.1oz.

Big Lenin bust. Made of stone or porcelain.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.

Bust Mao BM007 Bust Mao 2 Coloured Stone

Posted by Iljin on 3 May 2021
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Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 14.5x11cm./5.7×4.3inch.
Weight: 842gr./29.7oz.

Beautiful Mao Zedong bust. Made of some 2 coloured stone.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China).
One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.