(50.22)

Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 58x50cm./22.8×19.6inch.
Weight: 682gr./24oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Little carpet/tapestry made in the DDR. The bust of Karl Marx is a gigantic statue wich still stands in the city of Chemnitz formaly known as Karl Marx Stadt (Karl Marx City).

(200.22)

Price: 300.00 euro
Size: 125x86cm./49.2×33.8inch.
Weight: 2675gr./94.3oz.
Year: 1977
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

DDR carpet made in 1977, for the 60th. anniversary of the Ocktober Revolution in the Soviet Union. The text on the carpet reads:”60th anniversary of the great socialist October Revolution”. The carpet has got all the important elements, Lenin who started the revolution and created the first communist state, the ship Aurora who fired the first shot in St. Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and a rocket symbol to celebrate the great achievements the Soviets made in space. The carpet has some stains wich can be removed by cleaning. After that it will come out as “new”. At the back on the top somebody once added a wooden stick hang the carpet. So it was actually been used. See video.

(50.22)

Price: 100.00 euro
Size: 83x61cm./32.6x24inch.
Weight: 465gr./16.4oz.
Year: 1981
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Very rich tapestry made for the 10th. Partyday of the SED in 1981. A great timepiece of times long gone. The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946.
The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.

(241.22)

Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 260x83cm./102.3×32.6inch.
Weight: 4190gr./147.7oz.
Year: 1983
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Carpet with the image of Karl Marx made in the DDR in 1983. Made to commemorate the 100th. anniversary of Karl Marx’s death (1883). The top of the carpet reads:”Proletarians Of All Country’s Unite” and on the bottom:”Karl Marx year 1983″. Stunnig big carpet. In very good condition. Most carpets were produced in the DDR but some of the more bigger carpets were made in Turkey and shipped to the DDR for distribution. Although this carpet was made in the DDR.
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.

(175.22)

Price: 250.00 euro
Size: 125x92cm./49.2×36.2inch.
Weight: 2308gr./81.4oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org

Carpet with the image of Karl Marx made in the DDR in the cold war era. Propably in the 1980’s when they produced many different political carpets. In very good condition. Most carpets were produced in the DDR but some of the more bigger carpets were made in Turkey and shipped to the DDR for distribution.

(200.21)
Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 122x87cm./48x34inch.
Weight: 2500gr./88oz.

DDR carpet with Ernst Thalmann on it. The carpet is in perfect condition. Totally original. Very well made.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).

(350.21)
(175.19)

Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Weight: 3000gr./105.8oz.

Very rare FDJ DDR carpet. In perfect condition. The carpet says:”FDJ Commitment”. And DDR-30. Probably 30 years. The FDJ was founded in 1946 and DDR in 1949 so this carpet is from 1976 or 1979. The 2 faces on the upper left are most likely Ernst Thalmann and Wilhelm Pieck.
The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.

FDJ youth

FDJ with DDR flags in parade

FDJ flag

DDR and USSR flags in parade

FDJ carrying North Korean flags.

(175.19)

Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Weight: 3000gr./105.8oz.

Very rare DDR carpet with Ernst Thalmann on it. The carpet is in perfect condition. Totally original. Very well made.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed Stalinist, Thalmann played a major role in the political instability of the Weimar Republic in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought the overthrow of the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin’s government.
The KPD under Thalmann’s leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as Social fascists. Thalmann viewed the Nazi Party as a lesser evil than the social democrats, and in 1931 his party cooperated with the Nazis in an attempt to bring down the social democrat state government. Thalmann believed that a Nazi dictatorship would fail due to flawed economic policies and lead to a revolutionary situation in which the communist party gained power.
Thalmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkampferbund, which was banned as extremist by the governing social democrats in 1929, and in 1932 he established Antifaschistische Aktion or Antifa, which concentrated its attacks on the social democrats. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thalmann’s party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Many of Thalmann’s closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
In the First World War he was posted to the artillery on the western front, where he stayed till the end of the war, during the course of which he was wounded twice. He said that he fought in the following battles: Battle of Champagne (1915–1916), Battle of the Somme (1916), Second battle of the Aisne, Battle of Soissons, Battle of Cambrai (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).

Ernst Thalmann at a rally

Ernst Thalmann monument in Berlin

Ernst Thalmann

Ernst Thalmann speeching.

In 1972 Fidel Castro gave one of  Cuba’s 4000 island to the DDR naming it Ernst Thalmann Island.