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Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 22.5×12.5cm./8.8×4.9inch.
Size unfolded: 77x53cm./30×20.8inch.
Weight: 54gr./1.9oz.
Map of Korea made in 1986.
Documents
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 24.5×9.5cm./9.6×3.7inch.
Weight: 35gr./1.2oz.
Folder made in North Korea with a brief history of the Korea.
Price: 3.00 euro
Size: 19x10cm./7.4×3.9inch.
Size unfolded: 59x29cm./23.2×11.4inch.
Weight: 21gr./0.7oz.
Guide to Hamhung City, propably made in the late 1970’s, early 1980’s.
Hamhung is North Korea’s second largest city, and the capital of South Hamgyong Province. With an estimated population of 768,551, Hamhung is the second largest city by population in North Korea. Located in the southern part of the South Hamgyong province, Hamhung is the main and most popular metropolitan area in the province, and is the destination for the vast majority of tourism by foreigners to the province.
Hamhung has a thriving local economy compared to other metropolitan areas in North Korea, and it is known by North Koreans as a great area of architectural construction that was centrally planned, and built by the government of North Korea.
Price: 3.00 euro
Size: 22×9.5cm./8.6×3.7inch.
Size unfolded: 55x37cm./21.6×14.5inch.
Weight: 23
Year: 1976
Folder made in the DPRK, 1976 about Ponghwa Revolutionary Site.
The site in Kangdong County, Pyongyang in North Korea. The site is associated with Kim Hyong-jik, the father of North Korea’s first leader Kim Il-sung.
Kim Hyong-jik lived in Ponghwa between mid-March 1916 and November 1917. At that time, he was teaching at the nearby Myongsin School. Kim had helped founding the school. Kim helped organizing resistance to the Japanese occupation of Korea in Ponghwa by holding secret meetings of various clandestine groups.
The site consists of the school, a statue of Kim Hyong-jik, a monument to his revolutionary activities, the Pisok-gye Monument, ground for morning exercises, the Rock Floor, the Maekjon Ferry, dwellings, a shallow well, and a place on Mount Ponghwa were secret meetings were held.
The Ponghwa-ri Revolutionary Museum on the premises opened in 2004 houses historical artifacts related to Kim Hyong-jik. In 2009, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) put visitor figures as follows: “During the past more than four decades since the revolutionary site was opened to visitors it has drawn nearly 16 million people. “As of 2012, more than 1.7 million people have visited the site since 2000”.
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 21×10.5cm./8.2×4.1inch.
Size unfolded: 60x45cm./23.6×17.7inch.
Weight: 33gr./1.1oz.23.
Year: 1978
Folder made in the DPRK, 1978 and is about Taesongsan. Taesongsan is a mountain in Taesong-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea. It has an elevation of 270 metres (890 ft). On and near the mountain there is the Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery and the Korea Central Zoo. Also there is a amusement park. It was opened in 1977. Total area is 180,000m2, and contains 16 different rides.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 22x12cm./8.6×4.7inch.
Size unfolded: 48x29cm./18.8×11.4inch.
Weight: 13gr./0.4oz.
Year: 1989
Information map about the Arch Of Triumph in Pyongyang made in 1989.
The Arch of Triumph is an arch in Pyongyang. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. It is the second tallest triumphal arch in the world standing 60 m (197 ft) high and 50 m (164 ft) wide.
The monument was built to honour and glorify President Kim Il Sung’s role in the military resistance for Korean independence. Inaugurated on the occasion of his 70th birthday, each of its 25,500 blocks of white granite represents a day of his life up to that point. The structure is modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but is 10 metres (33 ft) taller. The arch is illuminated at night and has its own single cylinder diesel generator in case of main power failure.
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 19x10cm./7.4×3.9inch.
Size unfolded: 60x29cm./23.6×11.4inch.
Weight: 22gr./0.7oz.
Year: 1985
Map of the city of Chongjin made in 1985. Chongjin is an industrial and port city on the east sea of Korea and is situated on the north east of the DPRK.
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 26x19cm./10.2×7.4inch.
Size unfolded: 75x51cm./29.5x20inch.
Weight: 42gr./1.4oz.
Brochure made in North Korea, 1987.
Price: 4.00 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Pages: 4
Published:1982
Polish underground bulletin „Mazovia Weekly SOLIDARITY” (Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc) no 15 from 25th May 1982.
In the bulletin: on the first page about massive strikes and manifestations on 13th May in Poland clashes with militia, interviews with participants, strikes reports from different cities in particular workplaces, list of communists collaborators describing for what reason they are admitted to be collaborator, propaganda in public television in Poland.
Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc – a bulletin of the Polish Solidarity opposition in the period of the Polish People’s Republic, published in 1982–1989.
Underground publications (tissue paper, second circulation) – publications published in countries where censorship was in force (PRL, USSR, etc.). In Poland publications were published by the opposition as The Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and the Solidarity. These were non-debit publications, i.e. without being allowed to be distributed by the appropriate office (in Poland until 1989, it was the Publications and Performances Control Office), often ignoring copyright, confidentially distributed. They were published in circulation from a dozen or so copies to several or even tens of thousands of copies by illegal (“underground”) publishing houses or by private persons. The circulation of press and books, for example in the “NOWA”, rarely exceeded 4-5 thousand copies.
Due to militia persecution, espionage infiltration and the system of controlling the trade in paper, ink and printing presses in force in totalitarian countries, independent publishing houses never managed to achieve a large coverage, except for the Polish People’s Republic in the second half of the 1980s.
Price: 4.00 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Pages: 4
Published: 1987
Polish underground bulletin „Mazovia Weekly SOLIDARITY” (Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc) no 197 from 4th February 1987.
In the bulletin: meeting with John Whitehead US secretary in Warsaw, annual meeting of NSZZ Solidarity about the current situation in Poland, censorship in polish schools, future of the polish railways in XXI century, private sector perspectives, communist fights with cresses in polish schools.
Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc – a bulletin of the Polish Solidarity opposition in the period of the Polish People’s Republic, published in 1982–1989.
Underground publications (tissue paper, second circulation) – publications published in countries where censorship was in force (PRL, USSR, etc.). In Poland publications were published by the opposition as The Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and the Solidarity. These were non-debit publications, i.e. without being allowed to be distributed by the appropriate office (in Poland until 1989, it was the Publications and Performances Control Office), often ignoring copyright, confidentially distributed. They were published in circulation from a dozen or so copies to several or even tens of thousands of copies by illegal (“underground”) publishing houses or by private persons. The circulation of press and books, for example in the “NOWA”, rarely exceeded 4-5 thousand copies.
Due to militia persecution, espionage infiltration and the system of controlling the trade in paper, ink and printing presses in force in totalitarian countries, independent publishing houses never managed to achieve a large coverage, except for the Polish People’s Republic in the second half of the 1980s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Pages: 4
Published:1982
Polish underground bulletin „Mazovia Weekly Solidarity” (Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc) no 15 from 25th May 1982. In the bulletin: on the first page about mssive strikes and manifestations on 13th May in Poland, Clashes with militia, Interviews with participants, Strikes reports from different cities in particular workplaces, List of communists collaborators describing for what reason they are admitted to be collaborator, Propaganda in public television in Poland.
Tygodnik Mazowsze Solidarnosc – a bulletin of the Polish Solidarity opposition in the period of the Polish People’s Republic, published in 1982–1989.
Underground publications (tissue paper, second circulation) was published in countries where censorship was in force (PRL, USSR, etc.). In Poland publications were published by the opposition such as The Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and Solidarity. These were non-debit publications, i.e. without being allowed to be distributed by the appropriate office (in Poland until 1989, it was the Publications and Performances Control Office), often ignoring copyright, and was confidentially distributed. They were published in circulation from a dozen or so copies to several or even tens of thousands of copies by illegal (“underground”) publishing houses or by private persons. The circulations of press and books, for example in the “NOWA”, rarely exceeded 4-5 thousand copies.
Due to militia persecution, espionage infiltration and the system of controlling the trade in paper, ink and printing presses was in force in totalitarian countries. Independent publishing houses never managed to achieve a large coverage, except for the Polish People’s Republic in the second half of the 1980s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Pages: 4
Published: 1983
Polish underground typescript bulletin „NSZZ SOLIDARITY Weekly Mazovie Region” (Tygodnik NSZZ Solidarnosc Region Mazowsze) no 8/58 from 2nd March 1983.
In the bulletin:Polemics with government distortion about the real numerber of death of miners in Poland, Polemics with official government position about the increase of food price, Holy Father John Paul II comes soon to Poland lets prepare.Tygodnik NSZZ Solidarnosc Region Mazowsze – a bulletin of the Polish Solidarity opposition in the period of the Polish People’s Republic, published in 1982–1989.
Underground publications (tissue paper, second circulation) was published in countries where censorship was in force (PRL, USSR, etc.). In Poland publications were published by the opposition such as The Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and Solidarity. These were non-debit publications, i.e. without being allowed to be distributed by the appropriate office (in Poland until 1989, it was the Publications and Performances Control Office), often ignoring copyright, and was confidentially distributed. They were published in circulation from a dozen or so copies to several or even tens of thousands of copies by illegal (“underground”) publishing houses or by private persons. The circulations of press and books, for example in the “NOWA”, rarely exceeded 4-5 thousand copies.
Due to militia persecution, espionage infiltration and the system of controlling the trade in paper, ink and printing presses was in force in totalitarian countries. Independent publishing houses never managed to achieve a large coverage, except for the Polish People’s Republic in the second half of the 1980s.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 30x21cm./11.8×8.2inch.
Pages: 2
Published:1983
Polish underground bulletin „Committee of Social Resistance KOS” (Komitet Oporu Społecznego KOS) no. 27 from 14th March 1983.
Topics in the bulletin: Anna’a Walentynowicz one of the leader and co-creator of Solidarity trail began, Lech Walesa arrived at Walentynowicz trial, Communist started to prepare political trial against former members Social Self-Defense Committee “KOR” an Opposition movement against The Polish United Workers’ Party. The bulletin ends with the poem “Traitor”.
The KOS (underground bulletin of the Committee for Social Resistance) was the first periodical published after the introduction of martial law in 1981. It was an alternative for government censored newspapers. It was published in the years 1981-1989, initially as a weekly, then as a biweekly. A total of 165 issues were published.
Underground publications (tissue paper, second circulation) was published in countries where censorship was in force (PRL, USSR, etc.). In Poland publications were published by the opposition such as The Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR) and Solidarity. These were non-debit publications, i.e. without being allowed to be distributed by the appropriate office (in Poland until 1989, it was the Publications and Performances Control Office), often ignoring copyright, and was confidentially distributed. They were published in circulation from a dozen or so copies to several or even tens of thousands of copies by illegal (“underground”) publishing houses or by private persons. The circulations of press and books, for example in the “NOWA”, rarely exceeded 4-5 thousand copies.
Due to militia persecution, espionage infiltration and the system of controlling the trade in paper, ink and printing presses was in force in totalitarian countries. Independent publishing houses never managed to achieve a large coverage, except for the Polish People’s Republic in the second half of the 1980s.
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 20.5×14.5cm./8×5.7inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
Pages: 16
Published: 1954
Unique polish propaganda non-public document. It contains instructions published by Central Committee of The Polish United Workers’ Party with annotation printed to top of the front wrapper: „Exclusively For Inner-Party Use” (Wylacznie do uzytku organizacji partyjnych) titled: „On The Tasks Of Party Organizations In Elections To National Councils”, Warsaw, October 1954.
The instructions were published for party members on how to organise propaganda agitation due to the first elections to national councils in Poland in 1954. It contains detailed, step by step instruction in 9 points, agitation work which should guarantee to win election by the Polish United Workers’ Party.
The Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR), was the far-left communist party which ruled the Polish People’s Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. Elections to national councils in Poland in 1954 – the first post-war elections to national councils in the People’s Republic of Poland, held on December 5, 1954 on the basis of the newly adopted Constitution. One list was voted on. It was announced that the turnout ranged from 92-96%, and the candidates of the National Front won 97-99% of the votes.
Price: 70.00 euro
Size: 39x20cm./15.3×7.8inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.3oz.
Very unique Polish propaganda document from around the 1950’s and it is about the award title „Wzorowy zolnierz” – „Honored Soldier”, it was a honorary title (and badge) awarded from the 1950’s to the soldiers of the Polish Army.
The presented document is typescript informing about awarding honorary title “Honored Soldier” for private first class Krzysztof Apel and was signed by hand by military unit commander military unit no.1035 and deputy commander military unit no.1035 for political matters and with a stamp of the 1035 unit. Unit no.1035 was military 10th Railway Regiment named after “Silesian Insurgents” with headquarter in the Przemysl Fortress in Poland.
The document reads:”“[…] private first class Krzysztof Apel, who performs the honorable and responsible duty of military service in our unit, belongs to the rank of the best soldiers, excelling in combat and political training and discipline […] our soldier congratulations and heartfelt thanks for raising son to be a sincere patriot and a good Citizen of People’s Poland, documenting his love for the homeland through honest military actions […]”.
Price: 70.00 euro
Size: 34x28cm./13.3x11inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.3oz.
Unique polish numbered propaganda document (no. 1746) from the 1945-1950 period. It was awarded as an extraordinary promotion for deserved workers rebuilding Warsaw after being destroyed in the Second World War by Nazi Germany.
The text on the award document says:”Warsaw Reconstruction Diploma Mr A.K. He deserved the reconstruction of the Capital of Poland – Warsaw, which was destroyed by the barbarian Nazi invader, by dedicated work. Document number is 1746, Signed President of Warsaw Stanislaw Tolwinski and Chairman of the Executive Committee of N.R.O.W Gen. Div. Marian Spychalski”.
The diploma was designed in 1945 by Jan Mucharski and was in use as an award for deserved workers, who worked hard in rebuliding Warsaw after the destruction of war to the city. It was given to the outstanding workers when Tołwiński was president of Warsaw in years 1945-1950.
There is a smal missing piece without harmfull to the text in the diploma on the top of the document.
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Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 13x9cm./5.1×3.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.7oz.
Membership booklet of the Communist Party Netherlands (CPN) issued in 1969. A member had to pay a weekly tribute depending on his of her income. With each payment a sticker would put in the book for proof.
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Price: 2.00 euro
Size: 18.5×8.5cm./7.2×3.3inch.
Flyer from newspaper De Waarheid for recruting new subscribers. The flyer is from around 1980.
De Waarheid was a Dutch newspaper of communist signature. The magazine started in 1940 during the German occupation as a resistance newspaper. The first issue was published in November 1940 and later the magazine became one of the most important illegal magazines of the occupation.
After the Liberation, the newspaper continued as a daily newspaper. Although it also brought general news, it was also the party magazine of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), making it comparable to Pravda, the mouthpiece of the communist party in the Soviet Union (whose name also means truth). For some time, De Waarheid was the largest daily newspaper in the Netherlands, but during the Cold War its circulation dropped significantly to less than ten thousand. In 1990 the newspaper was closed.
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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 65x44cm./25.5×17.3inch.
Part of Dutch communist newspaper De Waarheid (menaing “The Truth” or in Russian: “Pravda”). On the back there is congratulations of various communist organisations from around the world for the 60th. anniversary of the CPN, Communst Party Netherlands. Printed in 1978.
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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 17x10cm./6.6×3.9inch.
Pamflet for announcing cultural manifestation held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the 13th. of January 1979 by the anti-neutron bomb organisation. The pamflet at the top says:”We against the neutron bomb”.
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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 18x10cm./7×3.9inch.
Sticker made by the anti-neutronbomb movement in the Netehrlands. Made very early 80’s. The text on the sticker reads:”Stop The Neutron Bomb”.
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Price: 2.00 euro
Size: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch.
Support actioncard for the anti-atomic bomb movement. The card reads:”We are againt the neutron bomb. Support action for the campaign: Stop the neutron bomb, stop the nuclear arms race”. The card is made probably around 1980 at the height of the anti atomic bombs movement.
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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 16.5x9cm./6.4×3.5inch.
Entree ticket of a Public Congress held by the CPN, Communistic Party Netherlands. Somewhere around 1980. When entering the building a piece of the entree ticket was torn off by officials.
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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 42x30cm./16.5×11.8inch.
Information paper made by the Februari Strike Commitee for the yearly commemoration of the Februari Strike wich happend in 1941 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The February Strike was a general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II, organized by the then-outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defence of persecuted Dutch Jews and against the anti-Jewish measures and activities of the Nazis in general. The direct causes were a series of arrests and pogroms held by the Germans in the Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam.
It started on 25 February 1941 and lasted for two days; on 26 February, 300,000 people joined the strike. The strike was harshly suppressed by the Germans after three days. The 1941 February Strike is considered to be the first public protest against the Nazis in occupied Europe,and the only mass protest against the deportation of Jews to be organized by non-Jews.
Three communist organizers were shot to death after the strike and 12 communist organizers were sent to jails in Germany.
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Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 15x10cm./5.9×3.9inch.
Entrance ticket for a gathering organized by the May 1st. (Labour Day) committee in the Netherlands. The ticket is from the late 70’s/early 80’s. It was organised in Amsterdam and after the gathering, with speakers and performances, there was a demonstration. The ticket is ripped wich was done when you entered the building with the ticket. There will be very few of this ticket left, if not this is the only one.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 21.5x15cm./8.4×5.9inch.
Pages: 12
Brochure of the speech giving by Henk Hoekstra (party member of the Communist Party Netherlands) in 1981 to commemorate the February Strike in WWII (1941).
The February Strike was a general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II, organized by the then-outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defence of persecuted Dutch Jews and against the anti-Jewish measures and activities of the Nazis in general. The direct causes were a series of arrests and pogroms held by the Germans in the Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam.
It started on 25 February 1941 and lasted for two days; on 26 February, 300,000 people joined the strike. The strike was harshly suppressed by the Germans after three days. The 1941 February Strike is considered to be the first public protest against the Nazis in occupied Europe,and the only mass protest against the deportation of Jews to be organized by non-Jews.
Three communist organizers were shot to death after the strike and 12 communist organizers were sent to jails in Germany.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 65x44cm./25.5×17.3inch.
Pages: 4
Special edition/appendix wich came with the communist dutch newspaper De Waarheid (Pravda in Russian, meaning The Truth) to celebrate the 60th. birthday of the CPN (Communist Party Netherlands) in 1979.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 22x13cm./8.6×5.1inch.
Weight: 20gr./0.71oz.
Pages: 8
Transcript of a speech from Henk Hoekstra (Communist Party Netherlands) in parlement 1977. Around that time there were several hostage situations from the Moluccan community in The Netherlands. Demanding there own Moluccan state within Indonesia. Because Indonesia was a former colony from the Netherlands there was a huge Moluccan community present.
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Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 7gr./0.2oz.
Old folder from the Pegasus publisher in Amsterdam. Made around 1980. The text on the folder reads:”Books that should not be missing on the shelf of a progressive person”.
Pegasus was the publishing house of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), based in Amsterdam where it also had a bookshop. At that time, among other things, most of the major works of Marx, Engels and Lenin were published, and the official History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Nowadays, the publisher annex bookshop mainly focuses on Slavic studies (dictionaries, teaching aids, etc.) and literature and reading material from Eastern Europe.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 29.5x21cm./11.6×8.2inch.
Weight: 62gr./2.1oz.
Pages: 12
Newspaper clippings collected in booklet with staples. These articles were collected by the CPN (Communistic Party Netherlands) in 1979. Due to government cuts there were large scale strikes in The Netherlands in 1978/1979. Out of disstatisfaction with the coverage in the established newspapers the CPN collected some of these articles and some articles of communistic newspaper “The Waarheid” (In Russian “Pravda”) who was on the side of the strikers.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 24.5x10cm./9.6×3.9inch.
Announcement about a CPN (Communistic Party Netherlands) for a congress and demonstration. The text on the cards reads:”Demonstration, Congress. For International Solidarity, For Defence Of The Standard Of Living, For Immediate Reduction Of Arms Expensives”. The card is made around 1980.
The Communist Party of the Netherlands was a Dutch communist party. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social-Democratic Party (SDP).
On May 15, 1940, immediately after the German occupation, the party decided to organize an underground movement. In July 1940 the Nazi occupation force banned the CPN. The party continued illegally. Together with the much smaller anti-Stalinist communist party RSAP the only pre-war organisation that already in 1940 protested against the anti-Semitic measures by the German occupiers. It published a resistance newspaper called De Waarheid (“The Truth”, in Russian: Pravda). Both took part in the February Strike in 1941, the largest act of resistance in the Netherlands.
In 1989 the party merged with three other small leftwing parties to form the GreenLeft. In 1991 disstatisfied members left and formed the New Communist Party wich still exist today.
