Price: 9.00 euro Size 9.5×6.5cm./3.7×2.5inch. Weight: 94gr./3.3oz. Year: 1977 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary 1977. The text on the plaque reads:”The reorganization of the Hungarian communist youth movement. for its 20th anniversary”. The Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) was a communist youth movement in Hungary. It was founded on 21 March 1957 (on the anniversary of the Hungarian Soviet Republic’s declaration in 1919), following the break of 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It claimed to represent all the country’s youth and sought to educate young people politically and to supervise political as well as some social activities for them. KISZ was the most important source of new members for the party. Its organizational framework paralleled that of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and included a congress, central committee, secretariat, and regional and local committees. Membership was open to youth from the ages of fourteen to twenty-six years, but most of the full-time leaders of the organization were well over the age limit. In the 1980s, KISZ had about 800,000 members. Membership was common among students (96% at universities, 75% in high schools) but was lower among young people already working (31%). It was mandatory for university admittance.
Price: 35.00 euro Size box: 9x9cm./3.5×3.5inch. Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch. Weight: 70gr./2.4oz. Year: 1974 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the Soviet Union, 1974. The text on the front of the medal reads:”1944-10-April-1974″. The back of the medal reads:”30 years since the liberation of the city of the hero of Odessa from the fascist invaders”. The text on the certificate reads:”Awarded to comrade Bel Dejak 30 years after the liberation of the hero city of Odessa from the Nazi occupiers”. The medal is made of aluminium.
WWII commemorative plaque. A gun stuck in the ground, a soldier’s grave between the remains of a city that had been destroyed and war equipment. A young tree grows next to the gun, symbolizing that he gave his life for new life. Beautiful bronze plaque. There is also a same version made in 1985.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The Horse Tamers designed by Russian sculptor Baron Peter Klodt von Jurgensburg, the horse tamers on Anichkov Bridge are among Leningrad’s most recognizable landmarks. Aluminum Medal with a kind of thick transparent layer of lacquer. Medal is in very good condition.
Medal made in the Soviet Union, 1985, and made of brass. The title of the medal is:”Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945″. The text on the back reads:”Participant in the war. 40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945″.
Medal made in North Korea. Awarded for 10 years exemplary conduct or for distinguished service in combat. Awarded to more than 500,000 Koreans and more than 400,000 Chinese during the Korean War.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 14.5×11.5cm./5.7×4.5inch. Size plaque: 11x8cm./4.3×3.1inch. Weight: 175gr./6.1oz. Year: 1987 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal with the original box. For 20 years of service 1967-1987. The text on the plaque reads:”For the attachment to the institute and for your contribution to the realization of the research and development programs of new energy equipment”, below that the name of the recipient and “20 years”.
Tabel medal made in Romania 1982 and made of plastic. The text on the plaques reads:”Sector 2. Bucharest. For the good results obtained in the activity of fulfilling economic and social tasks in 1982″.
Price: 18.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 175gr./6.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR The plaque is probably stainless steel, non-magnetic and high glossy. The committee replaced the Association of Persecutors of the Nazi Regime (VVN), which had been dissolved in the DDR in 1953. It was an organization closely associated with the SED. Without being a member itself, the committee worked closely with the National Front. On the other side an image of Ernst Thalmann.
Price: 45.00 euro Size box: 14.5cm./5.7inch. Size medal: 10cm./3.9inch. Weight: 610gr./21.5oz. Year: 1977 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary 1977. A Bronze plaque that has it all: the Aurora that gave the start of the revolution, space travel and of course the Soviet star that shines light. Artist’s initials lower right. On the back it says:”On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution”.
Price: 42.00 euro Size box: 16cm./6.2inch. Size medal: 10cm./3.9inch. Weight: 585gr./20.6oz. Year: 1990 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary 1990. The text on the back of the medal reads:”Malev Hungarian Airlines. Danyi Jozsef. Technical inspector. In memory of his retirement 1990 december 31. Hungarian aviation corporation”. Made of bronze.
Table medal made in Czechoslovakia. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Relay of initiatives and youth initiatives for the 50th anniversary of KSC. C. S. Komsomol” and on the back:”For outstanding work achievements”.
Price: 23.00 euro Size box: 21.5x12cm./8.4×4.7inch. Size medal: 14.5×5.7cm./5.7×2.2inch. Weight: 600gr./21.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the Soviet Union.Lenin Metallurgical Works. made of bronze and in it’s original box, which is lined with Bordeaux red velour that slopes upwards to properly display the plaque.
Price: 23.00 euro Size box: 16x13cm./6.2×5.1inch. Size medal: 10x7cm./3.9×2.7inch. Weight: 440gr./15.5oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the Soviet Union.Lenin Metallurgical Works. Probably made of silver-plated brass and still in it’s original box, which is lined with Bordeaux red velour that slopes upwards to properly display the plaque. Box has a mark on bottom right.
Price: 16.00 euro Size: 13×7.5cm./5.1×2.9inch. Weight: 140gr./4.9oz. Year: 1973 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Czechoslovakia, 1973, made of bronze. Th text on the front of the medal reads:”Victors february”, and on the back:”Twenty-fifth anniversary of the victory of the working people”.
Medal made in the Soviet Union. The text on the front reads:”Veteran Of Labour”, and on the back:”For many years of conscientious work”. They started awarded these medals in 1974.
Price: 45.00 euro Size box: 14.5cm./5.7inch. Size medal: 10cm./3.9inch. Weight: 600gr./21.1oz. Year: 1978 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary 1978. The medal is made for the celebration of 60 years of the Hungarian Party of Communists. Thick and heavy bronze in original box. On the back it reads:”For the activities taken in the labor movement”. The Hungarian Communist Party was founded on November 24, 1918. In February 1919, most of the party’s leaders were arrested, but their influence continued to grow. The Social Democratic Party of Hungary (MSZDP), which could not overcome the political crisis alone, asked the communist leaders in the concentration camps for help.
Table medal made in Lithuania 1968, for the 50th. anniversary of the Communist Party. The text on the medal reads:”The Lithuanian Communist Party is 50 years old”. The Communist Party of Lithuania is a now banned communist party in Lithuania. The party was established in early October 1918 and operated clandestinely until it was legalized by Soviet authorities in 1940. The party was banned in August 1991, following the coup attempt in Moscow which later led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Lithuanian SSR.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. Thick and heavy bronze medal. Very rare medal given to bridal couple for marriage On one side the newly married couple who owe the sun with oak branch for strength, on the other side the Soviet star and hammer with sickle.
Plaque/table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx and with signature with his year of birth and death. Made of bronze. 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.
Price: 29.00 euro Size box: 7cm./2.7inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal in box from the Russian Socialist Federative Republic of Chuvashia. The text on the front the medal reads:”Chavash Autonomous Socialist Council of the Republic”, the back of the medal reads:”Emblem of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic”. The Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group. Its capital is the city of Cheboksary.
Price: 29.00 euro Size box: 7cm./2.7inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 70gr./2.4oz. Year: 1971 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal in box from the Russian Socialist Federative Republic of Chuvashia. The text on the medal reads:”100 years of new Chuvash writing”. The text in in 2 languages. The new Chuvash script is associated with the name of the great educator Ivan Yakovlev. He and his collaborators created an alphabet in 1871 that took into account the phonetic features of Chuvash speech, which prompted the development of the Chuvash literary language. In the first half of the 20th century, the Chuvash alphabet changed significantly, caused by the general orientation of the Soviet Union’s national policy and aimed at bringing it closer to Russian spelling. Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev (1848-1930) was a Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer. The Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute bears Ivan Yakovlev’s name. There is also a monument and a museum of Ivan Yakovlev in Cheboksary. The Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group. Its capital is the city of Cheboksary. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,251,619.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 11.5cm./4.5inch. Size medal: 7.5cm./2.9inch. Weight: 156gr./5.5oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Tablemedal in wooden case made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Product group 61, hunting, sporting weapons, ammunition and accessories”, and on teh other side:”Grand Prix Leipzig 1968″.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal is Olga Benario Prestes and dat eof birth and death. On the back it reads:”National memorial Ravensbruck”. Olga Benário Prestes (born Olga Gutmann Benario Munich, 1908-1942) was a German-Brazilian communist militant. In 1934 she escorted at the request of the Komintern Luís Carlos Pestes to Brazil, where the “Knight of Hope” wanted to start the revolution. They traveled disguised as a couple and soon fell in love with each other. In November 1935, however, the rebellion failed dramatically. They were betrayed and arrested. Shortly thereafter, Olga was deported to Germany by ship and delivered to the Gestapo. In 1938 she was deported to the Lichtenberg concentration camp and later to Ravensbrück, where, according to reports, she tried to maintain solidarity among the prisoners. Together with other Jewish prisoners, she was gassed on April 23, 1942. In a letter to her husband, who only received it years later, she writes: “I fought for the right, the good, and the best in this world”.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 70gr./2.4oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Medal for 10 years of faithful service in militarised organs of the Interior Ministry. The text on the medal reads:”For Loyal Service”. This medal came in 6 versions. For 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of service.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 3.7cm./1.45inch. Weight: 91gr./3.2oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal still in it’s original box. The text on the medal reads:”For serving home”. This is a medal known as the “Medal for Service to the Homeland Class I”. It was awarded for acts of military merit and/or long service. It features the “wolf’s tooth flag” that is the standard of Hungarian military action since medieval times. Three classes exist: Class III bronze with green ribbon, Class II silver with blue ribbon and Class I gold with orange ribbon.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch. Weight: 110gr./3.8oz. Year: 1970 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary, 1970. This medal is for the “25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Hungary”. Miklos Horthy, the last regent of Hungary (and historical friend to the Axis), ordered a ceasefire against the encroaching Soviet Red Army in 1944. Nazi Germany used this as reason to arrest him and place the fascist Arrow Cross Party into power. The Red Army, reinforced by the newly Communist Romanian troops, surrounded and attacked the city of Budapest. After a brutal street-fight level of combat, the Arrow Cross was defeated, and the Peoples Republic of Hungary was created.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 88gr./3.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Hungarian original medal for 25 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The medal says:”25 years of home in the armed service”. There is also a medal for 10, 15, and 20 years of service.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch. Weight: 88gr./3.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This is a “gold” medal for an “Excellent Scholastic Innovator: Class 2” from the Peoples Republic of Hungary. Awarded for innovations in education. This was not usually awarded to teachers (as they had their own medal), but more for educational administration. There are three classes of this medal: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.5inch. Weight: 88gr./3.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This is a “silver” medal for an “Excellent Scholastic Innovator: Class 2” from the Peoples Republic of Hungary. Awarded for innovations in education. This was not usually awarded to teachers (as they had their own medal), but more for educational administration. There are three classes of this medal: Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 11×7.5cm./4.3×2.9inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 92gr./3.2oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This is a medal known as the “Medal of Service”, awarded to exemplary members of the Hungarian Peoples Army of the Hungarian Peoples Republic (1949-1989).
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 8x7cm./3.1×2.7inch. Size medal big: 4.5×3.3cm./1.7×1.2inch. Size medal small: 2.1×1.4cm./0.8×0.5inch. Weight: 60gr./2.1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent Border Patrol”.
Medal made in Iraq with the image of Saddam Hussein, 1987. This medal was a gift from a Iraqi soldier to a Dutch soldier in 1991. There is also a gold coloured version of this medal known. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) took control of Iraq in 1979 making himself president until 2003.He was member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party. In 1980 he started the Irak-Iran Wars until 1988. Irak was a secular state and Saddam saw the islamic revolution in Iran as a threat to Irak. In order to neutralize it he started the Irak-Iran War in 1980. Backed up by the Gulf States and the US. After the war the economy of Iraq was almost bankrupt. Irak was heavenly in depth with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Kuwait was pumping up large amounts of oil keeping the oil price low so Iraq could not make a lot of money by selling oil themselfs in order to make the economie rise again. Also Iraq accused Kuwait of steeling oil in the border area by drilling sideways under the border. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. A strong international reaction followed isolating Iraq and resulting in the Gulf War ending that same year. In 2003 Iraq was invaded again under accusation that it was producing weapons of mass destruction. In that same year Saddam was captured and executed in 2006.
Medal made in Iraq with the image of Saddam Hussein. This medal was a gift from a Iraqi soldier to a Dutch soldier in 1991. There is also a silver plated version of this medal known. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) took control of Iraq in 1979 making himself president until 2003.He was member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party. In 1980 he started the Irak-Iran Wars until 1988. Irak was a secular state and Saddam saw the islamic revolution in Iran as a threat to Irak. In order to neutralize it he started the Irak-Iran War in 1980. Backed up by the Gulf States and the US. After the war the economy of Iraq was almost bankrupt. Irak was heavenly in depth with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Kuwait was pumping up large amounts of oil keeping the oil price low so Iraq could not make a lot of money by selling oil themselfs in order to make the economie rise again. Also Iraq accused Kuwait of steeling oil in the border area by drilling sideways under the border. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. A strong international reaction followed isolating Iraq and resulting in the Gulf War ending that same year. In 2003 Iraq was invaded again under accusation that it was producing weapons of mass destruction. In that same year Saddam was captured and executed in 2006.
Medal made in Iraq with the image of Saddam Hussein. On the back:”Iraqi Armed Forces”. This medal was a gift from a Iraqi soldier to a Dutch soldier in 1991. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) took control of Iraq in 1979 making himself president until 2003.He was member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party. In 1980 he started the Irak-Iran Wars until 1988. Irak was a secular state and Saddam saw the islamic revolution in Iran as a threat to Irak. In order to neutralize it he started the Irak-Iran War in 1980. Backed up by the Gulf States and the US. After the war the economy of Iraq was almost bankrupt. Irak was heavenly in depth with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Kuwait was pumping up large amounts of oil keeping the oil price low so Iraq could not make a lot of money by selling oil themselfs in order to make the economie rise again. Also Iraq accused Kuwait of steeling oil in the border area by drilling sideways under the border. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. A strong international reaction followed isolating Iraq and resulting in the Gulf War ending that same year. In 2003 Iraq was invaded again under accusation that it was producing weapons of mass destruction. In that same year Saddam was captured and executed in 2006.
Price: 45.00 euro Size box: 21cm./8.2inch. Size medal: 17.5cm./6.8inch. Weight: 715gr./25.2oz. Year: 1970 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in Hungary for the anniversary of the 100th. birthday of Lenin (1870-1970). Big and heavy porcelain plaque in it’s original box with red satin. The text on the medal reads:”Lenin lives, Lenin lived, Lenin will live!”.
Price: 29.00 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 6.5cm./2.5inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. Year: 1967 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal from Belarus. The text on the front of the medal reads:”50 Year Of Soviet Power 1917-1967″ and on the back:”Belarusian Order of the Red Banner of Labor Automobile Plant”. The medal is made of aluminium.
Price: 28.00 euro Size box: 9cm./3.5inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 136gr./4.7oz. Year: 1971 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal from Czechoslovakia made in 1971. For celebrating 20 years of border patrol. The text on the medal reads:”Border Guards CSSR 1951-1971″. Made of bronze.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The text on the front reads:”Moscow”. Bronze Commemorative Medal. At the front a tough man laying bricks at the Kremlin. On the back the Kremlin with an image of a bronze statue.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union. The text on the medal reads:”Alexey Victorovich Shchusev Architect Academician 1873-1949″. Shchusev was the designer of the Lenin Mausoleum. Alexey Victorovich Shchusev (1873-1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture, Art Nouveau (broadly construed), Constructivism, and Stalinist architecture, being one of the few Russian architects to be celebrated under both the Romanovs and the communists, becoming the most decorated architect in terms of Stalin prizes awarded. On the night of 22–23 January 1924, Shchusev was summoned to the Kremlin to receive the most important commission of his life, the design of the Lenin Mausoleum. The reasons for choosing Shchusev remain unknown. Dmitry Chmelnizki speculates that, regardless of Shchusev’s conservative planning policies, he had already become “the architect closest to the Communist Party elite”. The first, temporary, wooden mausoleum was designed overnight and erected in three days, at temperatures reaching -30 °C. Due to a lack of time and resources, Shchusev’s original proposal was scaled down to a bare minimum. The resulting makeshift hut was too small for its intended role as a communist shrine; thus in March 1924 Shchusev was commanded to design and build a larger temporary structure that could also function as a tribune for the use of government officials. The second wooden mausoleum was built in April and opened to visitors in August 1924. Five years later, the government decided that the concept “had passed the test of time”, and awarded Shchusev a contract to design a third, permanent mausoleum.
Warsaw Pact table medal. Made in 1979. Probably made for a big Warschaupact exercise with military units from Hungary, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. In the star you can see the flags of the 5 countries and in their own language it says “Shield”. In the middle an AK47 with target and the year 1979. Made of bronze. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist countries that existed between 1955 and 1991. It was established as a counterpart to NATO at the suggestion of Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev. The treaty was signed on 14 May 1955 in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in response to NATO by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the GDR, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. All but one of the communist states in Eastern Europe were members: only Yugoslavia was left out. The members of the pact promised to defend each other if one or more members were attacked.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 164gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metal trade. State-owned external and internal trading company of the GDR””, and on the back:”For loyal 25 years of work in the metal trade”.
Price: 15.00 euro Size box: 10.5cm./4.1inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 163gr./5.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
table medal made in the DDR. The text on the medal reads:”Metallurgy trade. For excellent work”, and on the back:”Metaltrade. German Democratic Republic”.
Price: 35.00 euro Size: 16x13cm./6.2×5.1inch. Weight: 500gr./17.6oz. Year: 1978 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal from Czechoslovakia made in 1978. Issued by the communist party for model militairy. Bronze medal with documentation in box. It includes the official “booklet” with signature and stamped of a red star complete with hammer and sickle.
Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The silver edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
Medal made in the DDR for services in the maritime industry. The bronze edition. The medal came in three classes: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service), gold with honour clasp for woman (35 years of service), gold with honour clasp for man (40 years of service).
Price: 5,00 euro Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.3inch. Weight: 44gr./1.5oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
This medal was issued in 1969 for faithful service as a reserve in the nation people’s army. The front of the medal says:”Reservist of the national people army”, the back of the medal says:”For protection of workers and farmers”. The medal came in three different types. Bronze: for serving 18-24 months Silver: for serving 2 to 10 years Gold: for serving more than 10 years
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8x6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Weight: 39gr./1.37oz. Year: 1986 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box made in 1986. The front of the medal reads:”30 Years Of People’s Army”. The back of the medal reads:”Firmly rooted in the people, led by the party, we fulfill the class mission. Forward to the XI party congress of the SED!”.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 42gr./1.48oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The silver edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 37gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years). Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 37gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years). Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.
Price: 7.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 39gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The gold edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. 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 color blue was their primary colour. 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.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 39gr./1.3oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The bronze edition. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the central youth object FDJ initiative Berlin”. This medal was issued by the FDJ. 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 color blue was their primary colour. 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.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 9x6cm./3.5×1.9inch. Size small plaque: 6×2.7cm./2.3x1inch. Size big plaque: 132cm./2.3inch. Weight: 68gr./4.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The front of the smaller plaque reads:”5 years collective german soviet friendship”. The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name. Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch. Size medal: 4.4×3cm./1.7×1.1inch. Weight: 68gr./2.oz. Year: 1989 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR, 1989. The back of the medal reads:”For services to the German Democratic Republic”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 6.50 euro Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch. Size medal: 4.5×3.2cm./1.7×1.2inch. Weight: 68gr./2.oz. Year: 1979 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR, 1979. The back of the medal reads:”For merits in founding and consolidating the DDR”. This medal of honor was awarded on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the DDR.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch. Weight: 32gr./1.12oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”For very good performance in the socialist job competition”, and on the back there is a quote by Lenin:”Learn, learn and learn some more”.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 11cm./4.3inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 42gr./1.48oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The bronze edition. The front of the medal reads:”For many years of service”, and the back:”For the protection of workers and farmers”. The medal was awarded in four classes to employees of the Defense Industry: bronze (10 years of service), silver (20 years of service), gold (30 years of service) and special gold (40 years of service for man, 25 years of service for woman).
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8×6.5cm./3.1×2.5inch. Size medal: 4.2x3cm./1.6×1.1inch. Weight: 34gr./1.19oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR in it’s original box. The text above the medal reads:”Badge of honor”, and below that:”Organs of the administration of justice in the DDR”.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The front of the medal reads:”National memorial ravensbruck”. The back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located near the village of Ravensbrück. Of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish, approximately 15%. 85% were from other races and cultures. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave labor by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides. In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp’s gas chambers in 1944. Of some 130,000 female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Werner Seelenbinder. Werner Seelenbinder (1904-1944) was a German communist and wrestler. In 1928 and 1929 he won the Spartakiad in Moscow; over 200 German sportsmen were banned from the contest, but Seelenbinder, with his interest in Marxism, took part. His first trip to Moscow had already persuaded him to become a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1933 he refused to give the Nazi salute when receiving his medal at the German Wrestling Championship and was punished with a sixteen-month ban on training and sports events. As a committed communist Seelenbinder was appalled by the 1936 Olympic Games that were to be held in Nazi Germany. He had originally planned to boycott it, but friends persuaded him to compete anyway, win, and defy the Nazis by not giving the required Nazi salute, but to use a vulgar gesture instead. This plan was foiled when he lost the first match. Seelenbinder’s illegal activities as a courier and his participation in the Uhrig Group had caught the attention: he was arrested, along with 65 other members of the group, on 4 February 1942 and after being tortured for eight days, and enduring nine camps and prisons for two and half years, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof, he was executed for treason on 24 October 1944 at Brandenburg-Görden Prison. He was beheaded with an ax.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Central youth object. FDJ initiative Berlin”. In the DDR, a youth object was a form of temporary task assigned to a youth collective, which was often initiated and organized by the leadership of the SED or the youth association FDJ. These tasks could arise from the areas of industry, agriculture, construction, science, teaching and research or education in general. Every state-owned enterprise (VEB), every agricultural production cooperative (LPG), and even every administrative unit, had their own youth objects. For example, in 1974 a total of 854,912 young people worked on 68,370 youth objects.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”First president of the German worker and farmer state”, and the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic republic”. The head on the front of the medal is Wilhelm Pieck. Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (1876-1960) was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht. In 1919 Pieck, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht was arrested in Berlin for their political activities. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then killed while “being taken to prison” . While the two were being murdered, Pieck managed to escape.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 8.2cm./3.2inch. Size medal: 5.7cm./2.2inch. Weight: 77gr./2.7oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the top of the front of the medal it reads:”Protect and help”, beneath that:”Civil protection”. The back of the medal reads:”Ready to work and to protect the homeland”. The Civil defense of the DDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch. Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighters against fascism”, and the back reads:”Forward and don’t forget”. They started making this medal in 1958 and was awarded for involvement in the resistance against the Nazi regime in 1933-1945.
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch. Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch. Weight: 75gr./2.6oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in the DDR. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Fighter against the reaction”, and the back of the medal reads:”Freedom, peace and socialism”. The rifle with the red flag is the symbol of the KDA. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 12x6cm./4.7×2.3inch. Size medal: 3cm./1.18inch. Weight: 61gr./2.15oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
DDR medal, gold class. The medal was awarded in three classes, gold, silver and bronze, for faithful fulfillment of duties and recognition of exemplary achievements in the ranks of the combat groups of the DDR.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 3.7cm./1.45inch. Weight: 91gr./3.2oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal still in it’s original box. The text on the medal reads:”For serving home”. This is a medal known as the “Medal for Service to the Homeland Class 2”. It was awarded for acts of military merit and/or long service. It features the “wolf’s tooth flag” that is the standard of Hungarian military action since medieval times. Three classes exist: Class III bronze with green ribbon, Class II silver with blue ribbon and Class I gold with orange ribbon.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch. Weight: 75gr./2.64oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This medal was awarded for “52 Years of Service” in the Worker Guardians. multi-part construction. enamel on brass. The belongs to one of the most interesting parts of the labor system of the Peoples Republic of Hungary. It was a badge worn by a “Worker Guardian”. A worker guardian was a worker, who has not enlisted in the military, who trained like the military for the necessity of civil defense. during the administration of Janos Kadar, the military budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to raise the living standards of the citizens. Millions of Hungarian workers (organized by trade unions) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns, and even artillery to support the regular military in the event of an invasion.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 8x7cm./3.1×2.7inch. Size medal: 2.5x2cm./0.9×0.7inch. Weight: 51gr./1.79oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This is a blood donations medal produced by the government of the Peoples Republic of Hungary. There are three classes to this medal: bronze for 10, silver for 15, and gold for 20 blood donations. In a Socialist system, the idea of sharing and collectivization is the basis for all aspects of life.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 12×7.5cm./4.7×2.9inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch. Weight: 89gr./3.13oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. This is a “Public Security Medal, Class II” awarded by the Peoples Republic of Hungary. The recipient would have been a police officer of the Interior Ministry, which included everyday cops, for twenty years of service without any major discipline. Bronze and gold classes also exist.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 11×8.5cm./4.3×3.3inch. Size medal: 3.2cm./1.25inch. Weight: 97gr./3.42oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent worker of collective industry”. The large medal size was only to be worn on holidays and special occasions. The small medal was intended for everyday wear. Awarded by the Peoples Republic of Hungary (1949-1989) for exemplary labor in collectives. there are several variations available for this award (different medals used, etc). three-piece construction of enamel on brass and aluminum.
Price: 12.50 euro Size box: 10.5x7cm./4.1×2.7inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 75gr./2.9oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”For flood protection”. This Medal was originally founded to recognize the extraordinary emergency efforts of civilians and military personnel in response to the 1954 Danube floods. In 1955, the statutes of the Medal were altered, and the medal’s inscription was changed, in order to expand the eligibility of the Medal to individuals who would provide aid and service in future floods; such as the 1956 Mohacs island floods. On June 20, 1965, the obverse design and inscription of the medal was altered permanently. Thus, there are two main models of the medal. The medals awarded from 1954 to 1965, depict a man carrying a child out of flood waters on the obverse medallion. The obverse inscription from 1954 reads “1954 EV DUNAI ARVIZVEDELEMERT,” and the obverse inscription from 1955-1965 reads ” DUNAI ARVIZVEDELEMERT.” The medals awarded from 1965 to 1989, depict a man working to create a flood wall on the obverse medallion, and feature the obverse inscription “ARVIZVEDELEMERT.”
Price: 10.00 euro Size box: 10.5x7cm./4.1×2.7inch. Size medal: 4cm./1.57inch. Weight: 83gr./2.9oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Medal made in Hungary. The text on the medal reads:”Excellent Blood Donor”. This type of medal came in three classes. Bronze, silver and gold. This is the bronze edition.
Price: 5.00 euro Size box: 6.5cm./2.5inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.57inch. Weight: 43gr./1.51oz. Year: 1956 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1956. The text on the medal reads:”German Gymnastics And Sports Festival, 1956”. This was the 2nd. festival. The Gymnastics and Sports Festival of the DDR took place from 1954 to 1987 a total of eight times. The first German gymnastics and sports festival took place on the festival meadow next to the planned central stadium, in the stadium of peace and Bruno-Plache Stadium. With the 2nd festival it moved to the new central stadium, which was opened in 1956 in Leipzich. Here, as with all the following festivals, the main events took place: a sports show raised as a sporty propaganda event, often a football international game, an international athletics event and a magnificent closing event. The Deutscher Turn- und Sportbund (DTSB German Gymnastics and Sports Federation) was a mass organization of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 until shortly after German reunification. Membership in the organization included nearly four million people, which accounted for almost 20% of the population of the GDR. Founded in 1957, the DTSB was the last major mass organization to be created by the East German government, and was the central agency responsible for mass sport. The federation consisted of individual sports associations within the country, ranging from sailing to chess. While it worked in conjunction with the Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), the DTSB focused more on adult activities, whereas the GST focused on youth activities. Upon the dissolution of East Germany and reunification with the West, the organization was disbanded and the individual sports associations either continued to exist independently or joined their Western counterparts.
Price: 23.50 euro Size box: 8.2×7.3cm./3.2×2.8inch. Size medal: 6cm./2.3inch. Weight: 129gr./4.5oz. Year: 1980 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the Soviet Union for the Olympic Games, 1980, in Moscow. The text on the front of the medal reads:”Olympic Committee CCCP” and on the back it reads (in Latin):”Faster, Higher, Stronger”.
Price: 32.00 euro Size box: 20x13cm./7.8×5.1inch. Size medal: 13.5×6.5cm./5.3×2.5inch. Weight: 483gr./17oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Tablemedal made in Hungary. Soviet and Hungarian women release pigeons together in friendship. Bronze plaque signed in original box. The original monument stands at a museum.
Tablemedal made in Hungary by Miklos Borsos. With the image of Stalin and a date (1949). Miklos Borsos (1906-1990) was a Hungarian sculptor and medallist. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements. Borsos made use of all sculptural genres. He developed embossing of copper plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places and sepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values). Human and animal figures were common subject, and his forté was not in fine detail but in creating overall masterpieces. Borsos also became focused on portrait art during the late 1950s and 1960s, where his work integrated aspects of nature, atmosphere, as well as cultural and spiritual traditions into a new genre of sculptural art. In 1979, Borsos opened the Miklos Borsos Art Gallery in Győr. It is situated in the oldest neighbourhood of the city and is now the Miklós Borsos City Art Museum. Miklos was awarded the title Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People’s Republic in 1967.
Table medal from Belarus. The text on this beautiful medal reads:”Communist Party of Belarus. Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic”. Alloy of copper and zinc. 5450 of this medal were made.
Medal made in the Soviet Union. The meda is called:”In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”. They made about 10.000.000 medals of these and started with it in 1969. There are 3 types of medals; For Valliant Labour, For Military Valour and To Foreign Leaders. This is the “For Valliant Labour” version. It was awarded to eminent members of Soviet society, the military leadership and foreign members of the international communist and labour movements.
To Foreign LeadersFor Military ValourFor Valiant Labour
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1978 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1978. The front of the medal reads:”For the protection of workers and peasant power”, and the back:”Combatgroups of the working class, 25 Years 1953-1978″. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1989 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1989. The front of the medal reads:”Day of the miner and the energy worker of the DDR”. On the back of the medal there is VEB “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. In this case it was a oil and gas company.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the frotn there is the image of Ernst Schneller. Ernst Schneller (1890-1944) was a German school teacher. In 1914 he volunteered to join the army when war broke out. Sent to fight on the Eastern Front, he became politicised and radicalised, especially as the ideas behind the Russian Revolution filtered through to the German troops. After the war he joined first the Social Democratic Party and then, in 1920, the recently launched Communist Party of Germany. He was arrested in 1933 and imprisoned. Transfer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp followed in 1939 were he was shot dead in 1944. The text on the back of the medal shows the Concentrationcamp Sachsenhausn memorial. The text reads:”national Reminder And Memorial”.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx. The text on the back of the medal reads:”German Democratic Republic”. 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.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the front there is the image of Ernst Thalmann. 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).
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR. On the front of the medal there is an image of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. Von Blucher (1742-1819) was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal). He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. On the back of the medal there is the Battle Of Nations monument.
Price: 7.50 euro Size box: 8cm./3.1inch. Size medal: 3.5cm./1.37inch. Weight: 30gr./1oz. Year: 1987 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Table medal made in the DDR, 1987. “Oebisfelde” is a city in Germany. The text on the back of the medal reads:”105 Years Of Volunteer Fire Brigade 1882-1987″.