(R.16.5.20)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 124gr./4.5oz.
Commemoration WWII beautiful symbolic 40 years memorial plaque of the 2nd world war with beautiful patina. The text on teh medal reads:”40 Years Of Liberation”. The medal is signed with a “M”.
(R.24.20)
Price: 29,00 euro
Size box: 11cm./4.3inch.
Size Medal: 8cm./3.1inch.
Weight: 375gr./13.1oz.
WWII table medal Soviet Union made in 1975. 30 years after the victory on Nazi Germany 1945-1975. Bronze Table medal in original box. What a beautiful plaque this is, soldier runs forward from Leningrad to Berlin with 2 flags bearing the Soviet and Polish coat of arms.
(R.17.20)
Price: 21.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 46gr./1.5oz.
Soviet table medal with Red Army soldier. On the background there are tanks, cannons and rockets. The text on the back reads:”Ground Troops USSR Armed Forces”.
(R.19.20)
Price: 23.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 150gr./5oz.
Plaque head Polish soldier. Cold War item. On the back reads “Polish People’s Army” with coat of arms. Signed St. Sikora.
(R.19.20)
Price: 23.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 150gr./5oz.
Plaque head Polish soldier. Cold War item. On the back reads “Polish People’s Army”.
(4.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 14.5x8cm./5.7×3.1inch.
Weight: 176gr./6.2oz.
This medal is called:”Banner of Labor”. It was given for excellent and long-standing service in strengthening and consolidating the DDR, especially for achieving outstanding results for the national economy.
The order was established in 1954 in one class. In 1974 it was divided into three classes. The 1st Class was the highest class and each class included a cash award. It could be givin to individuals or company’s and organizations. The decorated persons received an annual pension wich the DDR government paid until the wall fell.
The East German government was inspired by the older Soviet-Russian Order of the Red Banner to design this award.
First, second and third class.
(R.19.20)
Price: 23.00 euro
Size: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 150gr./5oz.
Plaque head Polish soldier. Cold War item. On the back reads “Polish People’s Army” with coat of arms. Signed St. Sikora and stamped, just below the helmet in the neck.
(4.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 102gr./3.6oz.
Medal from the DDR with the image of Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969). On the back of the medal it reads:”For Anti Imperialist Solidarity”.
(R.19.20)
Price: 23.00 euro
Size Medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Size Box: 8x8cm./3.1inch.
Weight: 152gr./5oz.
Physical Culture and Sports Committee under the Council of Ministers of the CCCP 1970.
Bronze Table medal in original box. Behind the stylistic depiction of 2 people with a hammer with sickle and star. The text on the medal reads:”Committee On Physical Culture And Sports Under The Council Of Ministers”.
(12.5.20)
(4.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 11cm./4.3inch.
Weight: 175gr./6.1oz.
Medal with the image of friedrich Engels in original box. Friedrich Engels was a close friend of Karl Marx and funded the works of Marx to be published. The ruling party of East Germany (The SED) had several schools throughout the DDR were students were being trained and educated for becoming a party official. Bezirkparteischule “Friedrich Engels” was one of them. Bezirkparteischule means District Party School.
(R.35.20)
Price: 42.00 euro
Size Medal: 6cm./2.3inch.
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Weight: 154gr./5oz.
Medal made in honor of the Bahx exhibition. Also known as the exhibition of national economy achievements. The front of the medal reads:”Exhibition Of National Economy Achivements”. The back of the medal reads:”In Memory Of The Exhibition”.
This is a permanent exhibition in Russia about the achievements of national economy established in 1935 and started as an agricultural exhibition. In 1959 the agricultural exhibition was restructed and rebuilt and the name of the park changed to “Exhibition Of National Economy achievements”.
Now the exhibition holds 2,375,000 square meters (bigger than Monaco) with subjects such as: engineering, space, atomic energy, education, radio electronics and culture and has around 11 million visitors each year. It contains more than 400 buildings.
View of a part of the exhibition
The entrance
The gigantic Conquerors Of Space Monument, build in 1964.
(10.20)
(4.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 11cm./4.3inch.
Weight: 174gr./6oz.
Medal from the DDR made in 1987. The text on the box reads:”Being a member of the SED (communist ruling party DDR) is a honor and obligation”. Pictured on the medal is Ernst Thalmann.
Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944) was a German communist politician. He was leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. Thalmann was shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler’s personal orders in 1944.
(5.20beschadigd)
(4.20)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 127gr./4.5oz.
Medal from the DDR in the original box. With an inlay. The front of the medal says: “25 Years Of Workers Class Fighting Force 1955-1978″. The back of the medal says:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
The inlay says:”Handed Over By The SED (Communist Party Germany) VEB (State Owned Company) Mansfeld Kombinat (Iron Company) Wilhelm Pieck (President of the DDR 1949-1960)”.
(4.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 11cm./4.3inch.
Weight: 188gr./6.5oz.
Medal in it’s original box. On the back the medal says:”SED District Party School Ernst Schneller, Karl Marx Stadt”.
The SED was the ruling communist party of the DDR. The district party schools were tasked with ideologically training junior SEDs as potential leaders in the DDR party and state apparatus. Throughout the DDR, there was a district party school in each of the 15 districts. This school was called Ernst Schneller and was based in Karl Marx Stadt, nowadays called Chemnitz.
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.
(10.20)
(1.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 6x5cm./2.3×1.9inch.
Weight: 43gr./1.8oz.
Medal from the DDR made by the FDJ (Free German Youth) in honor of the 10th, World Festival of Youths and Students in 1973.
The festival has been held regularly since 1947 as an event of global youth solidarity for democracy and against war and imperialism. The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34,000 young people from 131 countries attended the event. Until the 19th festival in Russia in 2017 (with 185 countries participating), the largest festival by number of countries with participants was the 13th, held in 1989 in Pyongyang when 177 countries attended the event.
Weltfestspeile, Berin, 1973.
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 13.5x8cm./5.3×3.1inch.
Weight: 177gr./6.1oz.
Honorary plaque with an image of a statue wich stands at Treptower Park in Berlin.
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin’s Treptower Park. It was built to to commemorate the 80,000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949.
The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war. The other two memorials are the Tiergarten memorial, and the Soviet War Memorial Schönholzer Heide in Berlin’s Pankow district.
The memorials are not only commemorative, but also serve as cemeteries for those killed.
Treptower Park
(10.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9x6cm./3.5×2.3inch.
Weight: 60gr./2.1oz.
Medal from the former DDR. In very good condition and still in it’s original box. The medal was awarded in a single class for outstanding improvements in production, in technology or in occupational safety.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 121gr./4.5oz.
Medal made for 25 years of service at the VEB Screwfactory, The medal says:”Thanks and recognition for your services, VEB Screwcombination”. The factory was based in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl Marx City), nowadays called Chemnitz. The factory still exist, but is now called: ESKA and is making industrial equipment.
(15.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 14x10cm./5.5×3.9inch.
Weight: 165gr./6oz.
Box of a 2 piece medal set, made in 1979 to honor the 1980 olympic gaes held in Moscow. The text on the back of both medals says:”Society for the promotion of the Olympic idea”.
On the first medal there is a image of August Schaettner (1817-1859) he was a German revolutionary and commander of the Hanau Gymnasts.
On the second medal there is J.C.F. GutsMuths (1759-1839). He was a teacher and educator in Germany, and is especially known for his role in the development of physical education. He is thought of as the “grandfather of gymnastics”.
The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe. They were also the only Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist country until 2008 in China.
Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games, the smallest number since 1956. Led by the United States, 66 countries boycotted the games entirely because of the Soviet–Afghan War. Some athletes from some of the boycotting countries (they are not included in the list of 66 countries that boycotted the games entirely) participated in the games under the Olympic Flag. The Soviet Union would later boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics. The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals, with the USSR and East Germany winning 127 out of 203 available golds.
(R.9.5.20)
Price: 12.00 euro
Size box: 10cm./3.9inch
Size medal: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 197gr./7.05oz.
Medal from Hungary made in 1985 about the monument St. George the dragon slayer wich stands in Budapest. This monument, large in size, was built in 1904 on the site of the presumed murder of Bishop Gellert in the 11th century. The monument overlooks the Elisabeth Bridge and can be seen from all over the city.
Monument St.George the dragon slayer in Budapest.
(R.11.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size box: 10.5cm./4.1inch.
Size medal: 7cm./2.7inch.
Weight: 165gr./5.8oz.
(12.50)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
DDR East Germany Medal for Distinquished Achivements. The front of the medal says:”For Excellent Service”.
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.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
Bronze medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.
The bronze, silver and gold edition.
(3.5.20)
(R3.5.20)
Price: 4.50 euro
Size: 4.4cm./1.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Plaque Rostral column marine Leningrad. Aluminum with 3D effect.
A rostral column is a victory column, originating in ancient Greece and Rome, where they were built to commemorate a naval military victory.
The back of the medal says:”Rostral columns and the central building, naval museum, former exchange, architect(name) Leningrad“.
Rostral columns in St. Petersburg
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 5cm./1.9inch.
Medal from China.
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 27x11cm./10.6×4.3inch.
3 porcelain medal set in the orginal box from the DDR. In great condition.
Medal 1 is 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.
Medal 2 is Friedrich Engels (1820–1895). He was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England.
Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
Medal 3 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 and they were led by Stalin. 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.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Lenin
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 17x8cm./6.6×3.1inch.
3 medals from the DDR in the original box. Here are the incredible stories:
Medal 1 is Arvid Harnack (1901–1942) was a German jurist, economist, and German resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. From 1937–41, Harnack held close contact with Donald Heath, the First Secretary at the US Embassy, to inform the US about Hitler’s preparations for war. In 1941, after the Americans left Berlin, Harnack was contacted by the Soviets, and agreed to supply them with information about Hitler’s war preparations.
In 1941, Harnack sent the Soviets information about the forthcoming invasion.
Arvid got captured and sentenced to death after a four day trial before the Reichskriegsgericht (“Reich Military Tribunal”), and was put to death three days later at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. The back of the medal says:”Scout Using All Of His Personality”.
Medal 2 is Fritz Schmenkel (1916–1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism, who fought with the Soviet partisans in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War. In November 1941 he defected from the German army and went into hiding near the village Podmoshe, Smolensk Oblast. From there, he approached the Soviet partisan unit “Death to fascism” and explained his desire to join the partisans. After initial suspicion and interrogations, Schmenkel finally won the trust of the partisans when he killed a German soldier who tried to set fire to the house where the partisans had their base. He was allowed to join the partisans.
Schmenkel soon proved himself to be valuable for the partisans; wearing a German uniform and pretending to be a Wehrmacht general, Schmenkel would lead German military columns into partisans’ traps. This helped the partisans capture entire units of Wehrmacht soldiers, as well as ammunition and food. In 1943, he was brought to Moscow by the Red Army, where he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and received military training. In 1943 Schmenkel was ambushed and captured by the German occupational authorities. He was brought to Minsk and sentenced to death and executed by firing squad a week later. The back of the medal says:”Partisan Scout Soldier Of The Revolution”.
Medal 3 is Ilse Stöbe (1911–1942) was a German journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. She was arrested in 1942 by the Gestapo, allegedly for spying for the Soviet Union and for membership of the Red Orchestra (Die Rote Kapelle) Soviet espionage ring. A Gestapo report of November 1942 said a radio message from the Soviet Union informed that a parachuted resistance fighter would come to her address. After seven weeks of torture she was compelled to confess to conspiratorial connections to the Soviet secret service and to persons such as Rudolf von Scheliha. He was then also arrested on 12 October 1942. Both were sentenced to death for treason on 14 December 1942 by the Reichskriegsgericht, and executed on 22 December 1942 in the Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, she by guillotine and he by hanging from a meathook. The Soviet agent, Heinrich Koenen, who had landed in Germany by parachute, was arrested at her house by a waiting Gestapo official. Her mother was also arrested and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died in 1943. Stöbe’s brother Kurt Müller was able to escape arrest and continue his resistance activities with the resistance group, the European Union Resistance. He was murdered in June 1944.Stöbe (code name “Alta”) repeatedly sent warning messages to the Soviet Union about the impending German invasion of the Soviet Union well in advance of the attack.
She was the only woman to be featured on this special medal issued by the East German Ministry of State (Stasi) to commemorate important spies in Communist service during the war. The Ilse Stöbe Vocational School in Market Street, Berlin is named in her honour. The back of the medal says:”Smart, Steadfast And Loyal For The Protection Of Socialism”.
Arvid Harnack
Fritz Schmenkel
Ilse Stöbe
Price: 10.00 euro
Size box: 8.5cm./3.3inch.
Size Medal: 4cm./1.5inch.
DDR medal to commemorate 30 years of NVA, 1986. In it’s original box. The front of the medal says:”30 Years NVA”. The back of the medal says:”Be aware of the power!. The power is givin to you, so you never ever give it out of your hands!.”
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
East German leader Honecker inspecting NVA troops.
Coat of Arms NVA.
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 17×5.5cm./6.6×2.1inch.
3 medal set from the DDR in the original box.
Medal 1 is Rudolf Abel Ivanovitch (1903-1971) He was a Russian intelligents officer who worked for the KGB and was a spy in the U.S. He was captured in 1957 and sentenced 30 years in prison. He was released in 1961 and exchanged for captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. On the back the medal says:”Scouts Fight As Internationalists”.
Medal 2 is Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909-1942). He was a German publicist and Luftwaffe officer who would become a leading German resistance fighter as a member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Gestapo, during World War II. He was arrested and executed in 1942. The back of the medal says:”Patriot Internationalist Revolutionairy Fighter”.
Medal 3 is Richard Sorge (1895-1944). Richard Sorge was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer, active before and during World War II, working undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was “Ramsay”. A number of famous personalities considered him one of the most accomplished spies.
Sorge is most famous for his service in Japan in 1940 and 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler’s plan to attack the Soviet Union. In mid-September 1941, he informed the Soviets that Japan would not attack the Soviet Union in the near future. Various writers have speculated that this information allowed Stalin to transfer 18 divisions, 1,700 tanks, and over 1,500 aircraft from Siberia and the Far East to the Western Front against the western Axis Powers during the Battle for Moscow.
A month later Sorge was arrested in Japan on the count of espionage. He was tortured, forced to confess, tried, and hanged in November 1944. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964. The back of the medal says:”Hot Heart, Cool Head, Clean Hands”.
Rudolf Abel Ivanovich.
Harro Schultze-Boysen.
Richard Sorge.
(3.20)
Price: 3.00 euro
Weight: 37gr./1.3oz.
The collective of socialist work, was a collective award in the DDR. 2nd. award. For eacht time a individual was recognized with this medal, a extra flag would be added above the medal. They started with this award in 1960 and recognized high production successes, special successes in socialist community work and above all in the socialist competition. This medal is issued in 1970. After 1973 the medals would have a plastic layer on the flag above the medal.
The front of the medal says:”The Collective Of Socialistic Work” and the back of the medal says:”Learn And Live Socialistic Work”.
It was about fulfilling political, cultural and professional demands as well as adhering to socialist morals and ethics.
By 1989 4.8 million people had recieved the award.
Price: 12.50 euro
This is the gold medal for 30 years of service as a volunteer to the civil defense of the DDR. The medal says:”Medal of service, civil defense”. They started with this medal in 1977 until 1985. After 1985 the medal was slightly different. This medal is from 1977-1985.
There were 3 types of medals:
Bronze: 10 years of service
Silver: 20 years of service
Gold: 30 years of service
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 10.00 euro
This is the silver medal for 20 years of service as a volunteer to the civil defense of the DDR. The medal says:”Medal of service, civil defense”. They started with this medal in 1977 until 1985. After 1985 the medal was slightly different. This medal is from 1977-1985.
There were 3 types of medals:
Bronze: 10 years of service
Silver: 20 years of service
Gold: 30 years of service
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Before 1985 front
Before 1985 back
(7.5.20) (7.5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
This is the bronze medal for 10 years of service as a volunteer to the civil defense of the DDR. The medal says:”Medal of service, civil defense”. These medals were made from 1977-1985. After 1985 the medal was slightly different. This medal is from after 1985.
There were 3 types of medals:
Bronze: 10 years of service
Silver: 20 years of service
Gold: 30 years of service
All medals of volunteer if civil defense medals.
Price: 5,00 euro
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 that workers and farmers make”.
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
All types of serving in the peoples army medals.
Price: 2.50 euro
The collective of socialist work, was a collective award in the DDR. This is the first award. 2nd. award and up were distinquished with 2, 3 or more flags on top of the medal. The 1970 issue had no plastic layer on the flag, after 1973 they did. So this medal is the 1973 issue. They started with this award in 1960 and recognized high production successes, special successes in socialist community work and above all in the socialist competition.
The front of the medal says:”The Collective Of Socialistic Work” and the back of the medal says:”Learn And Live Socialistic Work”.
It was about fulfilling political, cultural and professional demands as well as adhering to socialist morals and ethics.
By 1989 4.8 million people had recieved the award.
(5.20)
Price: 5.00 euro
DDR medal, bronze. The medal was awarded in three classes for faithful fulfillment of duties and recognition of exemplary achievements in the ranks of the combat groups of the DDR.
All medals of merit.
(20.20)
(10.19)
Price: 20.00 euro
Medal from the Sovjet Afghan war, 1988. With unwritten document. The back of the medal says:”From The Grateful Afghan People”. The same on the front of the document. Inside the document it says:”Republic of Afghanistan. In accordance with the decree. Awarded. To the international warrior from the grateful Afghan people.”
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from 1979 and ended in 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the countryside. The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States making it a Cold War proxy war. Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and 32.000 Sovjet/Afghan forces and 57.000 mujahideen.
The war derives from a 1978 coup when Afghanistan’s communist party took power, initiating a series of radical modernization reforms throughout the country. These reforms were deeply unpopular among the more traditional rural population and established power structures. It led to the rise of anti government armed groups and by April 1979 large parts of the country were in open rebellion. The ruling party itself experienced deep rivalries, and in September 1979 the President, Nur Mohammad Taraki, was murdered under orders of the second in command, Hafizullah Amin, which soured relations with the Soviet Union. Eventually the Soviet government, under leader Leonid Brezhnev, decided to deploy the 40th Army in December 1979.
Arriving in the capital Kabul, they staged a coup, killing president Amin and installing Soviet loyalist Babrak Karmal from a rival faction.
Sovjet troops in action
Sovjet soldiers with a captured machine gun
Mujahideen soldiers checking out Sovjet movements
Soviet helicopter flying past one of the Bamiyan buddhas wich were later blew up by the taliban.
(20.20)
Price: 20.00 euro
Medal from North Korea. Purpose yet unknown.
(40.20)
Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 5.8cm./2.2inch.
Medal from North Korea. In honour of the existince of 40 years of North Korea. The medal was issued in 1985.
(40.20)
Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 5cm./1.9inch.
Medal from North Korea. Order of Honor of 2nd. class military service.
There are 3 types of the medal:
1st. Class (gold)
2nd. Class (Gold/Silver)
3rd. Class (Silver)
1st. Class
3rd. Class
(11.19) (10.20(x14))
Price: 10.00 euro
This is a medal for 20 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(12.5.19)
Price: 12.50 euro
The Medal for Exemplary Border Service was a national award issued in the DDR. It was established in 1954. The first presentation ceremony took place on 1 July 1954, to members of the German Border Police.
The medal was awarded to members of the Border Troops of the DDR as well as civilians for exemplary performance and personal commitment in securing the state border of the DDR. It recognized outstanding contributions in enhancing the combat readiness and training in the performance of border guard tasks. It could be awarded more than one time.
It could also be presented immediately after the accomplished performance, such as the prevention of a break through at the border, even if it resulted in death of the escapee. The medal was also presented to members of the Stasi.
There are 3 types of this medal. The first type was awarded from 1954 to 1955 and had stalks of wheat which terminate with the inscription DDR, and the text:”“Für Vorbildlichen Grenzdienst” (For Exemplary Border Service). On the backside there was a serial number. The 2nd. type was the same but with no serial number on the backside (1955-1956).
The third type of this medal was worn from 1956 to 1990. The design was changed, on the medal is a border guard holding binoculars in his hands and a machine gun slung across his chest. The reverse of the medal displays the Coat of Arms of the DDR. This version of the medal is also not numbered on the reverse.
First type
Price: 12.50 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 10.00 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 7.50 euro
The Distinguished Service Medal of the National People’s Army, or “Medal of Merit of the National People’s Army”.
Established in 1956 in three levels, Gold, Silver and Bronze. It was awarded for outstanding merit and personal readiness in support of the increase of combat capability and combat readiness of the National People’s Army in the DDR. The medal was last awarded in 1990.
The medal was designed by artist Paul Gensch. On the front are profiles of the busts of a 1950s era sailor, airman, and soldier representing the nation’s Land, Air, and Naval forces, under which is spelled out “DDR”. On each side of this are three oak leaves with an acorn. The words FÜR HERVORRAGENDE VERDIENSTE (FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT) form the upper part of the medal, the lower part contain the words NATIONALE VOLKSARMEE (NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ARMY).
On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER UND BAUERN MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.
The Bronze, Silver and Gold edition.
Price: 7.50 euro
This is the bronze medal for 5 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 10.00 euro
This is the silver medal for 10 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
(15.19)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is the gold medal for 20 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
Price: 12.50 euro
This is the gold medal for 15 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX)
All medals of People Army Service.
(15.19)
Price: 25.00 euro
Beautiful medal from the DDR. It was for the FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend, Free German Youth) organisation. The medal is from 1952 and has serial number 00113. The medal says:”Fur hervorragende Leistungen im Fünfjahrplan” wich means “For Excellence In The Five Year Plan”.
They started with these type of medals in 1952 end it ended it 1959 and was givin to individuals. The First Five Year Plan (1951–55) introduced centralized state planning; it stressed high production quotas for heavy industry and increased labor productivity. The pressures of the plan caused an exodus of DDR citizens to West Germany.
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.
(7.19) (7.20)
Price: 7.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is a medal for 15 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(5.19) (5.20) (5.20) (5.20)
Price: 5.00 euro
This is a medal for 5 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(7.22.19 (8$)) (6.20)
Price: 6.00 euro
This is a medal for 10 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
(60.19)
Price: 85.00 euro
The Order of the Red Star was established in 1930. The Order of the Red Star was awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Army, Navy, border and internal security forces, employees of the State Security Committee of the USSR, as well as NCOs and officers of the bodies of internal affairs; to units, warships, associations, enterprises, institutions and organizations; as well as to military personnel of foreign countries.
The Order of the Red Star is worn on the right side of the chest and when in the presence of other orders of the USSR, placed immediately after the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd. class. The Order of the Red Star was also used as a long service award from 1944 to 1958 to mark fifteen years of service in the military, state security, or police.
The inscription on the medal says:”Workers Of The World, Unite!”
3.8 million Red Stars were awarded to more than 2 million people. One could have earn more than one Red Star for multiple heroic acts in wartime.
(35.19)
Price: 47.50 euro
Medal, Order Of The Patriotic War 2nd. Class with documentation.
The Order of the Patriotic War is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisans for heroic deeds during the German-Soviet War, known by the former Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War.
In order to inspire soldiers to preform heroic acts during the war, the soviet union issued a large number of expensively made medals. The Order Of The Patriotic war came in 2 classes. 1st. class and 2nd. class, breaking the tradition of a classless society. The 1st. class was for truly heroic acts such as; bringing two enemy planes down as a pilot, destroy 2 or more tanks, sinking a warship or do repairs while on enemy fire.
The 2nd. class was for less heroic deeds. In 1985, during the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, it was decided that all surviving veterans of the war would be awarded either 2nd or 1st class of the Order, and about 2,054,000 first class and 5,408,000 second class were issued then.
As of January 1992, the total number of all awarded Orders was 2,487,098 first class and 6,688,497 second class variants. Almost 10 million in total.
Below pictures of heroes of WWII fully hung medals:
Price: 5.00 euro
Medal from Hungary. It’s purpose is yet unknown.
Price: 12.50 euro.
Old Mao medal from 1953.
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).
In 1920-1921 he travelled throughout China and saw the poor conditions of farmers and workers. He became a member of the Communist Party and his political talents was noticed by dutchman Henk Sneevliet. At the end of the 1920’s Mao developed political theory’s wich later would become known as Maoism. His confidant Lin Biao collected quotations of Mao wich wich would become The Red Book. This is the most printed book in history after The Bible.
With The Great Leap forward he wanted to become the greatest steel production nation of the world and ordered every school, factory, farm and even hospitals to have an oven to produce steel.
After that he imposed The Cultural Revolution in 1966 and creating The Red Guard.
In 1976 he died and Deng Xiaoping took control and reformed China in both kapitalism and socialism.
Mao Zedong playing ping pong.
(5.20) (5.20)
Price: 5.00 euro.
Medal still in it’s original box and with pin. In good condition.
The medal says:”Excellent worker”. The Kivalo Dolgozo medals where made for almost any profession in Hungary. So this medal comes in many variations. Great to collect them all.
This one is a universal variation made for industries not represented by their own medal. This medal was to be worn on holidays and the mini was made for everyday wear.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
The medal says:”For loyal service of the nation and homeland”
A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard. So a substitute was needed.
Millions of working class people trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and even artillery to support the regular army in case of a war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who took control over Hungary in 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
Although he remained loyal to the Soviet Union he is known for being one of the more moderate communist leader.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Hungarian original medal for 20 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The medal says:”20 years of home in the armed service”.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro.
Information:
This medal was awarded “for excellent work”. This medal was awarded for the completion of a major project.
Hungarian medals and badges from the communist period are often in high quality. Unlike the USSR medals, Hungary did not make medals and badges for every tiny aspect of life, so they could afford to make the awards from a higher budget and are made with more attention.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro.
Hungarian original medal for service to the fatherland. The text on the medal says:”For Service Of The Homeland”. These type of medals came in a Gold, Silver and bronze grade. This is the bronze grade.
Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Hungarian original medal for 10 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The medal says:”10 years of home in the armed service”.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro.
Hungarian original medal for 15 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The text on the medal says:”For Armed Serive In The Homeland”.
(10.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 7.5cm./2.8inch.
Weight: 47gr./1.6oz.
Workers Guardian medal.
A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy in order for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard.
Millions of working class people (labours) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and artillery to support the regular army in case of war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who ruled over Hungary from 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
Janos Kadar
(10.20)
Price: 10.00
Size: 8×8 cm. / 3×3 inch.
The medal was worn by a Munkasor or Workers Guardian. A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy in order for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard.
Millions of working class people (labours) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and artillery to support the regular army in case of war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who ruled over Hungary from 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
Janos Kadar.
(1.5.19)
Price: 1.50 euro
Medal in excellent condition. The medal says:”Winner Of Social Competition”.
