Wooden wallpiece made in the DDR with the image of 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.
Wallpiece made in the Soviet Union with the image of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Metal on a wooden base. Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), nicknamed “Iron Felix”, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the KGB. Dzerzhinsky spent four and a half years in tsarist prisons. Dzerzhinsky was beaten frequently by the Russian prison guards, which caused the permanent disfigurement of his jaw and mouth. In 1916, Dzerzhinsky was moved to the Moscow Butyrka prison, where he was soon hospitalized because the chains that he was forced to wear had caused severe cramps in his legs. Despite the prospects of amputation, Dzerzhinsky recovered and was put to labor sewing military uniforms. Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from prison after the February Revolution of 1917. Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats known as Cheka. The Cheka undertook drastic measures as thousands of political opponents and saboteurs were eliminated. Besides his leadership of the secret police, Dzerzhinsky also took on a number of other roles; he led the fight against typhus in 1918, was chair of the Commissariat for Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1923, initiated a vast orphanage construction program, chaired the Transport Commissariat, organised the embalming of Lenin’s body in 1924 and chaired the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema. A 15-ton iron monument of Dzerzhinsky, which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters, also became known as Iron Felix.
Price: 75.00 euro Size: 29x23cm./11.4x9inch. Weight: 1500gr./52.9oz. Year: 1985 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Heavy metal wallplate made in the Soviet Union for remembering 40 years of victory over Nazi Germany. Made of stainless steel and it seems to be handmade so this should be one of a kind.
Copper wallplate made in Ukraine. The text at the bottom reads:”Kirovohrad” and is a province in Ukraine. The text on the side reads:”Monument to the unknown soldier”.
Cast iron Soviet flagpole holder with hammer and sickle and 3 stars around the opening. It is in original condition. Stick opening is 4.5cm./1.7inch. Measured along the long side, it is 37cm,/14.5inch. and 12cm./4.7inch. wide. The flagpole holder itself is 16.5cm./6.4inch.
Price: 65.00 euro Size medal: 17.5cm./6.8inch. Weight: 800gr./28.2oz. Year: 1977 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Plaque made in the Soviet Union, 1977. Very large bronze plaque of all three army units. Air Force, Army and Navy. Behind each soldier are helmets and caps of each army unit up to the horizon, with the three flags at the very back. Star with hammer and sickle is not missing. At the top 2 small holes for hanging string. Beautiful piece. The text on the plaque reads:”Armed forces. 60 years of CCCP”.
Price: 125.00 euro Size: 21.5×15.5cm./8.4×6.1inch. Weight both plates: 2886gr./101.8oz. For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
2 beautiful plates with the horrors of nuclear war. Heavy bronze plates that belong together. About 1cm./0.3inch. thick with fixing pin on the back. Powerful graphics. A mushroom cloud rises above a city with roads that resemble tree roots. World wide the end depicted with a mother and child where rockets fly back and forth over their heads from north, east, west and south. The next rocket is just taking off on the right. Of mother and child, the left side is a skeleton, the right side is still healthy.
Wallpiece made in the Soviet Union with the image of the Tsar Cannon. The shield is made of aluminium with a bronze layer. The Tsar Cannon is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. Mostly of symbolic impact, it was never used in a war. However, the cannon bears traces of at least one firing.It is largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
Wallpiece made in the Soviet Union. A mother carrying a child on her shoulders and holding flowers in front of his chest. Her son has both hands in the air and waves the red flag as the sun shines on them. They face a bright future. Russian wall plate with handwritten text on the back and some traces of a seal. The plate is made of copper and the back is made of wood with a suspension eye.
Wallpiece made in the Soviet Union. Soviet army through the years. Large rectangular bronze plaque with armies from 1400, WWI, WWII to the modern army from the 1970s. Greatly depicted in a kind of hieroglyphics style. Edges of the plaque are also shaped as if it were made of stone.
Coat of Arms shield made in Hungary. This shield is in such a good condition that it was probably always hung inside a (government) building. Very big and heavy. Made of bronze.
Very big and beautiful wall plate made of brass on a wooden back plate. Soldier with rifle on the shoulder heading into battle on the way to the factory with a pickaxe over the other shoulder. Behind him the sun that predicts a sunny future.
Big plaque with the image of Stalin made in 1949, Stalin’s 70th. birthday. Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s. When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his leadership.
Large copper wall plate of a Troika. Nice item for Christmas. It is somewhat affected on the left, a brown spot. It is made of copper with a wooden back for sturdiness.
Copper wallplate made in Ukraine with an image of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument in Kiev. The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument is a monument in Kyiv dedicated to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the first Hetman of Zaporizhian Host. It was built in 1888 and it is one of the oldest sculptural monuments, a dominating feature of Sophia Square and one of the city’s symbols.
Wallpiece from Germany. Framed Poster with photo. Krieg’s Chronik (“War Chonicle”) 1939-1945 This is a poster with a photo of a soldier and in the book is a description of his military life during WW2. It can be read that he was drafted in 1942, fought in France and was then taken prisoner in Russia. He was a prisoner of war until 1949 when he returned home. Blank oak frame with glass and even the 2 suspension eyes are still glued to the back.
Copper wallpiece made in the DDR with the image of Hans Beimler. Hans Beimler (1895-1936) was a trade unionist, Communist Party official, deputy in the 1933 Reichstag, an outspoken opponent of the Nazis and a volunteer in the international brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic. Beimler lived in Munich where he joined the Communist Party. In 1921 he was arrested for attempting to sabotage troop transports and was jailed for 2 years. A fervent Communist and anti-Nazi, he was elected as a KPD deputy to the Reichstag in the German federal election in July 1932. Hitler came to power in January 1933 and with the Reichstag Fire Decree for the Protection of People and State, one month later, began interning political rivals, including KPD and SPD members, in concentration camps. Beimler and his wife Centa were both arrested in April 1933 and never saw each other again. Already known as an outspoken and defiant anti-Nazi voice in the Reichstag, Beimler and his party colleagues were subjected to two weeks of beatings at the Munich police before being sent to Dachau concentration camp. After four weeks, however, in May 1933 Beimler managed to escape, possibly with the help of some renegade camp guards. He managed to cross into Czechoslovakia and on to the Soviet Union. After short periods in France and Switzerland, working for the International Red Aid (Rote Hilfe) organisation, Beimler arrived in Barcelona in August 1936 at the head of the first brigade of German anti-fascist volunteers, fighting alongside the Republican troops under the name “Thälmann’s Centurians”. He was subsequently appointed as commissar of all International Brigades supporting the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. In November 1936, while helping to defend Madrid from the Nationalists, he was shot and fatally wounded during the Battle of Madrid. Hans Beimler was granted national hero status in the German Democratic Republic, with military divisions, ships, factories, schools and streets named in his honour.
Wallpiece made in the DDR with the image and signature of 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. 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).
Beautiful wallpiece with the image of Karl Marx. Copper plate and with signature. 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.
Copper (?) wallpiece made in Bulgaria. Origanally mounted on something but removed later. The text on the plaque reads:”To Assist The Defence”. The Defense Assistance Organization (DAO) is an organization for military applied sports that existed under different names in the periods 1947-1968 and 1977-1992. It was to increase increases the defense capability of the country by training conscripts and specialists for the needs of the Armed Forces in the country and carrying out methodical management of military technical training outside the system of the Bulgarian Army. For this purpose the organization develops and maintains clubs for military applied sports (sport shooting, parachuting, sports orienteering, etc.), clubs for military applied technical disciplines (radio telegraphy, radio orienteering, rocket modeling, ship modeling, etc.), training bases, and bearings, and others.
Wallpiece made in Yugoslavia with the image of Josip Tito, “The Marshall”. The image is made of copper and placed on a wooden plate. Heavy piece. Josip Broz Tito was president of Yugoslavia and during World War II he was leader of the partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. Tito was president of the Yugoslav republic for 27 years, from 1953 untill 1980 when he died. After World War II Yugoslavia became quickly a communist state. Tito was originally one of the most trusted people of Stalin. But in 1948 their friendship was for the most part over because Tito would not transform Yugoslavia in a Moscow controled satellite state. Yugoslavie continued being a communist state though. And had relationships with both Soviet Union and western capitalist country’s. Tito was his nickname meaning Marshall.
Copper plate made in the DDr with the image of Friedrich Engels. Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) 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.
Wallpiece with the image of Camilo Cienfuegos. The plaque is made of copper and is very heavy. Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (1932-1959) was a Cuban revolutionary born in Havana. Along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro, he was a member of the 1956 Granma expedition, which launched Fidel Castro’s armed insurgency against the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He became one of Castro’s top guerilla commanders, known as the “Hero of Yaguajay” after winning a key battle of the Cuban Revolution. He was appointed head of Cuba’s armed forces shortly after the victory of Castro’s rebel army in 1959. He was presumed dead when a small plane he was traveling in disappeared during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana later that year. Many have speculated and conspiracies have arisen concerning his mysterious disappearance. Cienfuegos, whose name translates in English to “a hundred fires,” is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honor.
Wallpiece with the image of Camilo Cienfuegos. The plaque is made of stone/clay. The text reads:”Lord of the Vanguard. 30 anniversary, 1959-1989″. To commemorate his 30th. death day. Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (1932-1959) was a Cuban revolutionary born in Havana. Along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro, he was a member of the 1956 Granma expedition, which launched Fidel Castro’s armed insurgency against the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He became one of Castro’s top guerilla commanders, known as the “Hero of Yaguajay” after winning a key battle of the Cuban Revolution. He was appointed head of Cuba’s armed forces shortly after the victory of Castro’s rebel army in 1959. He was presumed dead when a small plane he was traveling in disappeared during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana later that year. Many have speculated and conspiracies have arisen concerning his mysterious disappearance. Cienfuegos, whose name translates in English to “a hundred fires,” is revered in Cuba as a hero of the Revolution, with monuments, memorials, and an annual celebration in his honor.
Wallpiece with Fidel Castro. Wooden base with copper/bronze centerpiece. Very old and heavy. The text on the shield reads:”Year Of Liberation. Dr. Fidel Castro”. There is a split in the wood. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) was a Cuban revolutionary, lawyer, and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year’s imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista’s forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista’s overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba’s prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro’s government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Wallpiece Fidel Castro. The head of Castro is made of copper and very heavy. It is mounted on a plexglas plate. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) was a Cuban revolutionary, lawyer, and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year’s imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista’s forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista’s overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba’s prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro’s government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Coat of Arms shield made in Hungary. This shield is in such a good condition that it was probably always hung inside a (government) building. Made of copper.
Handmade of copper. With the image of Che Guevara. Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States. prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
Wallpiece from Bulgaria with the image of Georgi Dimitrov. The relief is amde of copper and could have been part of a larger ornament. Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (1882-1949) was a Bulgarian communist politician. He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. Dimitrov led the Communist International from 1935 to 1943. Dimitrov died on 2 July 1949 in the Barvikha sanatorium near Moscow. The rising speculations that he had been poisoned have never been confirmed, although his health seemed to deteriorate quite abruptly. The supporters of the poisoning theory claim that Stalin did not like the “Balkan Federation” idea of Dimitrov and his closeness with Tito. Others, most notably Enver Hoxha, suppose that Dimitrov was poisoned by Nikitia Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, and other anti-Stalinists in the Soviet leadership. After the funeral, Dimitrov’s body was embalmed and placed on display in Sofia’s Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum. After the fall of Communism in Bulgaria, his body was buried in Sofia’s central cemetery in 1990. His mausoleum was torn down in 1999.
Beautiful high quality coat of arms of the Ukraine. Wooden plate covered with fabric and a golden cord along the side. Sword has a brass with wooden handle and the rest is chrome and polished aluminum, very nice. The text reads:”Ukraine”.
Wallpiece made in the DDR. Wooden plate with thin copper plaque on it. The image on the copper is the Sachsenhausen memorial tower. The tower is 35-40 (114-131 feet) meters tall and in front is a scultpute by René Graetz, made in 1961. The triangular prisoner’s badge is the dominant symbol on this triangular pylon with slightly concave sides. Sachsenhausen was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin’s oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Paul Reynaud, the penultimate Prime Minister of France, Francisco Largo Caballero, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, the wife and children of the Crown Prince of Bavaria, Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents. Sachsenhausen was a labor camp, outfitted with several subcamps, a gas chamber, and a medical experimentation area. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone. About 100.000 people were killed in the camp. Today, Sachsenhausen is open to the public as a memorial.
Bronze plaque with the image of Lenin. Very heavy. The plaque is mounted on a piece of wood with a hole on the back to hang the piece. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union. His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak. Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 32.50 euro. Size: 15x12cm./5.9×4.7inch. Weight: 496gr./17.4oz. Year: 1970 For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Brass plate with the image of Lenin. Made for the celebration of his 100th. birthday. The plaque is mounted on a piece of wood with a hole on the back to hang the piece. Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union. His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak. Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display. It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Aluminium wall plate with a purple inner circle. The image of the plate is one of the horse statues on the Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad). On each corner of the bridge there is a different Horse Tamer statue.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1987. The text on the plate reads:”70 Years” and is refferig to the October Revolution in 1917. The text above the ship reads:”October Revolution”. The ship is the Aurora who fired the first shot in St. Petersburg.
Wallplate made in the DDR with the image of 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. 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).
Wallplate made in the DDR with the image of Karl Marx. Freiberger Porzellan.The image is the big bust of Karl in the city of Chemnitz and made by Kerbel. On the background there is the text:”Proletarians Of The World Unite!” in different languages. 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.
Wallplate made in Cuba. The figure on the plate is Eduardo Chibas. Eduardo René Chibás Ribas (1907-1951) was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public. He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío which preceded the Batista era. He believed corruption was the most important problem Cuba faced. Born in Santiago de Cuba to Eduardo Justo Chibás Guerra and Gloria de Ribas Agramonte, Chibás’ strong nationalism is considered to be an inspiration for the Cuban Revolution. In 1947 he formed the Orthodox Party, a strongly anti-imperialist group, which had the goal of exposing government corruption and bringing about revolutionary change through constitutional means. Chibás lost the 1948 election for president, finishing in third place. He was an extremely strong critic of that election’s winner, Carlos Prío Socarrás. He was considered a favorite in the 1952 presidential election, but committed suicide a year before Fulgencio Batista seized control of the Cuban government.
Eduardo ChibasEduardo during a speechFuneral ChibasCrowd at the funural
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1979, VEB Colditzer Porzellanwerk. The text on the plate reads:”30 Years German Democratic Republic 1949-1979″. The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state. After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR. Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1977 by Meissen. Beautiful plate picturing the storming of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg during the 1917 October Revolution. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Wallplate made in Poland. The figure on the plate is Tadeusz Kościuszko. Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States. He fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s struggles against Russia and Prussia, and on the US side in the American Revolutionary War. As Supreme Commander of the Polish National Armed Forces, he led the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1977. The text on the plate reads:”60 years of Soviet power”. On the plate is a red star, hammer and sickle and the ship Aurora who fired the first shot in St. Petersburg signalling the start of the revolution.
Plate made in Czechoslovakia. The text on the plate reads:”Regional celebration of peace and Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship”. At the bottom of the plate there is the logo of the SCSP. The SCSP was a friendship organisation between Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia. SCSP stands for “Svaz Ceskoslovensko Sovetskeho Pratelstvi”, wich means: “Union of Czechoslovakia/Soviet Union Friendship”.
Wallplate with the image of Mao Zedong. The text on the plate reads:”The Whole Country Is Red”. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China). One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Wallplate with the image of Mao Zedong and Lin Biao. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China). One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Wallplate with the image of Mao Zedong and Lin Biao. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was leader of communist China for decades. He made major transformations in China, most known are the Cultural Revolution (removal of kapitalist elements) and The Great Leap Forward (the industrialization of China). One of Moa’s most trusted man, Lin Biao, collected quotations of Mao and published them wich would become known as The Red Book. Lin Biao was a chinese general and politician who commanded the troops in the Korean war. Later he got into a power struggle with Mao and he died in a planecrash.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1982. The text on the plate reads:”65 Years of red Oktober”. The Russian text reads:”October Revolution”. The ship is the Aurora who fired the first shot in St. Petersburg signalling the start of the revolution. The October Revolution was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin. It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and resulted in a provisional government. As the October Revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The Bolsheviks would become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Stalin was one of the militairy leaders of the Bolsheviks and took control over the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1974. The text on the plate reads:”25 Years German Democratic Republic”. The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state. After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR. Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Wall plate made in the DDR, 1966. The text on the plate reads:”20 years of raw iron in VEB Maxhütte Unterwellenborn and in the DDR”. The Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn, Thuringia, was a steel and rolling mill that was built in the second half of the 19th century. After several name and ownership changes, the company closed in 1992.
Wall plate made in the DDR, 1983. The text on the plate reads:”20 years of economic and scientific-technical cooperation”. And on the back of the plate:”Office for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Cuba in the DDR”.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1974. The text on the plate reads:”25 Years German Democratic Republic”. The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state. After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR. Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1974. The text on the plate reads:”25 Years Of DDR”. The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state. After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR. Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1978. The text on the plate reads:”25 Years Combat Groups Of The Working Class”. 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.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1977. The text on the plate reads:”Great Socialist October Revolution 1917-1977″. The ship on the plate is the Aurora who fired the first shot in the revolution. On the back on the plate it reads:”Ministry of State Security”. Most of these plate do not have that text on the back.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1976. The plate was made in association with the 9th. Party Congress in 1976. The text on the plate reads:”Battlecourse. 9th. Partyday”, and below that:”As a class struggle, keep the military masters ready for battle at all times”.
Famous plate made in the Soviet Union with Lenin. The text on the plate reads:”Those who not work shall not eat”. In the centre is an image of Lenin, to the left there are foodstamps and RSFSR=Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The plate is decorated by Mikhail M. Adamovich, State Porcelain Factory, USSR, 1921. There are many variations of this plate and is being reproduced many times. We consider this plate as a reproduction.
Wallplate made in the DDR, 1975. The text on the top of the plate reads:”Friendship”, and below that:”3rd. Festival Of Friendship, Halle, 1975″. VEB Chemiekombinat are state owned company’s, in this case chemical company’s. On the plate is the logo of the Soviet Komosol youth movement and the East German FDJ wich was a similair DDR youth movement. Both movements organised all sorts of activities for youth and also political education.
Plate made in Czechoslovakia. The text on the plate reads:”Warsaw Pact”, and beneath that:”Shield Of Socialism”, and at the bottom:”Czechoslovak People’s Army”. 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, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The DDR was added in 1956. Albania left the Warsaw pact in 1968. Yugoslavia was left out. The members of the pact promised to defend each other if one or more members were attacked.
Memorial plate made in the DDR, 1977, Henneberg Porzellan. The text on the plate reads:”Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution 1917-1977″. With Lenin and the Aurora. A famous ship wich fired the first shot in the 1917 revolution. There are some variations of this plate in existence.
Different version with extra textDifferent version with a golden ringVersion with 2 golden rings
Plate made in Vietnam, 2002, with the image of Ho Chi Minh. The text on the plate reads:”58th anniversary of the establishment of vietnam. National Day of the Dead”. Vietnamees is hard to translate so the translation could be a bit off. The plate is made to commemorate Vietnam. The country came into existence after Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1945 in Hanoi’s Quảng trường Ba nh Square. The country then became independent from the Union of Indochina. He read passages from the American Declaration of Independence, replacing the word England with France. This statement was made available to him by a member of the OSS, a precursor to the CIA. Almost immediately after this, Ho and his Vietminh were expelled from Hanoi by the French and fought a heavy war with the French. This would become the First Indochina War. In this, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam recaptured the area in the north of Vietnam, while in the south the French-backed State of Vietnam was established under Emperor Bao Đại.
Signed terracotta wall plate from 1948 with the images of Lenin and Stalin. Signed on the back by a W with the year 1948, which is 74 years ago. Some edge damage after 74 years but the image is great.
Wallpiece with the image of Josip Tito made of bronze. On the back there is a screw, the head was probably part of a bigger ornament. Josip Broz Tito was president of Yugoslavia and during World War II he was leader of the partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. Tito was president of the Yugoslav republic for 27 years, from 1953 untill 1980 when he died. After World War II Yugoslavia became quickly a communist state. Tito was originally one of the most trusted people of Stalin. But in 1948 their friendship was for the most part over because Tito would not transform Yugoslavia in a Moscow controled satellite state. Yugoslavie continued being a communist state though. And had relationships with both Soviet Union and western capitalist country’s. Tito was his nickname meaning Marshall.
Large air defense plaque. Beautiful high relief military Warsaw Pact plaque with a MIG 23 and a pilot in high pressure suit. The text on the plaque reads”Air Defense”. Made of aluminum and stamped B-38 and No. 09.
