(5.22)

Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 39x23cm./15.3x9inch.
Weight: 1147gr./40.4oz.
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 28cm./11inch.
Weight: 806gr./28.4oz.
Year: 1987
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 60.00 euro
Size: 26.5cm./10.4inch.
Weight: 510gr./17.9oz.
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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).

(15.22)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 28cm./11inch.
Weight: 563gr./19.8oz.
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 25.5cm./10inch.
Weight: 604gr./21.3oz.
Year: 1979
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 26.2cm./10.3inch.
Weight: 700gr./24.6oz.
Year: 1977
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 28cm./11inch.
Weight: 865gr./30.5oz.
Year: 1977
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Wallplate made in the DDR, 1977. The text on the plate reads:”60 Years CCCP”.

(15.22)

Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 29cm./11.4inch.
Weight: 1810gr./63.4oz.
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Wallplate made in the DDR. Beautiful plate made of crystal glass. The text in the center reads:”German Democratic Republic”.

(15.22)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 28cm./11inch.
Weight: 767gr./27oz.
Year: 1977
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 27.8cm./10.9inch.
Weight: 778gr./27.4oz.
Year: 1978
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Wallplate made in the DDR, 1978. The text on the plate reads:”For the construction of the main gas pipeline”, the text on the torch reads:”Union”.

(15.22)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 23cm./9inch.
Weight: 379gr./13.3oz.
Year: 1982
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 23.5cm./9.2inch.
Weight: 400gr./14.1oz.
Year: 1974
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 24cm./9.4inch.
Weight: 467gr./16.4oz.
Year: 1966
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 23.7cm./9.3inch.
Weight: 485gr./17.1oz.
Year: 1983
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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”.

(15.22)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 19,3cm./7.5inch.
Weight: 190gr./6.7oz.
Year: 1974
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 19cm./7.4inch.
Weight: 225gr./8.8oz.
Year: 1974
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 23.5cm./9.2inch.
Weight: 387gr./13.6oz.
Year: 1978
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 23.5cm./9.2inch.
Weight: 409gr./14.4oz.
Year: 1977
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 23cm./9inch.
Weight: 400gr./14.1oz.
Year: 1976
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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”.

(15.22)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 23.7cm./9.3inch.
Weight: 500gr./17.6oz.
Year: 1975
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 23.7cm./9.3inch.
Weight: 450gr./15.8oz.
Year: 1977
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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.

(15.22)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 23.3cm./9.1inch.
Weight: 405gr./14.2oz.
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Memorial plate made in the DDR, 1975. The text on the plate reads:”30th. anniversary of the liberation of fascism 1945-1975″.

(7.22)

Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 15.5cm./6.1inch.
Weight: 150gr./5.2oz.
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Wooden wallplate made in the DDR. In the center there is the logo of the KDA with the text:”25 years of combat groups of the working class 1953-1978″. The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KDA) was a paramilitary organization in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1953 to 1989. The KDA served for the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany composed of party members and politically reliable working people, based on dictatorship of the proletariat principles, to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. The KDA was a civil reserve force tied to the GDR’s Ministry of the Interior and the Volkspolizei, reaching 211,000 personnel at its peak in 1980. The KDA was disbanded after the opening of the Berlin Wall in late 1989.

(23.21)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size box: 18cm./7inch.
Size plate: 15cm./5.9inch.
Weight: 326gr./11.4oz.
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Copper showplate in it’s original box. In very good condition. The text on the plate reads:”National People’s Army”.

(2.21)

Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 14×8.5cm./5.2×3.3inch.
Weight: 100gr./3.5oz.
Year: 1977
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Wallpiece made in the DDR. This plate was arwarded to a company in 1977. VEB is “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. The text on the plate reads:” VEB Altentreptow (cityname). Labor banner. On the occasion of the award of our company with the medal Labor Banner”.

(5.21)

Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 38.5x23cm./7.2×6.6inch.
Weight: 410gr./14.6oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, from the “Schutzpolizei” wich means:”Police Force”. On the copper plate there is the police emblem and the TV tower from Berlin.

(15.21)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 38.5x23cm./15.1x9inch.
Weight: 978gr./34.4oz.
Year: 1985
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, 1985. Made of wood with a copper plate. The text on the plate reads:”40 Years Of Secure Peace. 8-5-1985. District Management of the SED Leuna”.
The SED (The Socialist Unity Party of Germany) was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946.
The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.
Leuna was an industrial area in the DDR.

(23.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 21.5cm./8.4inch.
Weight: 481gr./16.9oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR, made of copper. The text on the plate reads:”On the occasion of the 10 annual day of the NVA from the Genenral Anton-Saefkow barracks”.

(15.21)

Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 39x23cm./15.3x9inch.
Weight: 1111gr./39.1oz.
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Wallpiece made in the DDR during the cold war era.

(23.21)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 29x22cm./11.4×8.6inch.
Weight: 750gr./26.4oz.
Year: 1983
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Wallpiece from the DDR from the school of officers. The text on the piece reads:”20 Years Officer School of the ground forces “Ernst Thalmann” section 1963-1983″.

(23.21)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 30x19cm./11.8×7.4inch.
Weight: 1250gr./44oz.
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Wallpiece from the DDR, Border Troops. The text on the plate reads:”For remembering the bordertroops of the DDR, Rudolcity”. Beautiful piece with watchtower.

(35.21)

Price: 45 euro
Size: 42x28cm./16.5x11inch.
Weight: 3185gr./112oz.
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Wallpiece with the image of Ernst Thalmann. The base is wood and Thalmann’s head is made of bronze or copper. Very heavy. The text on the plate reads:”Presented by VEB Shaft Construction Nordhausen”. VEB is “Volkseigener Betrieb” wich means Publicly Owned Enterprise. Many company had the title VEB. In this case it was a construction company.
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).

(35.21)

Price: 45 euro
Size: 43x28cm./16.9x11inch.
Weight: 2259gr./79.6oz.
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Wallpiece with the image of Karl Marx. Very heavy. The base is made of wood and Karl’s head is made of aluminiun. In good condition. 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.

(85.21)
(R.85.21)

Price: 110.50 euro
Size: 21.5×16.5cm./8.4×6.4inch.
Weight: 573gr./20.2oz.
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Scene of tin figures with Lenin giving a speech at top of the armoured car during at Finland railway station in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). The text on the back of the frame reads:”Arrival At The Finnish Railway Station”.
A 3 dimensional painting with a very high finish. The figures are made of zinc and painted so beautifully, presumably with a 3-hair brush. If you look closely you can see the craftsmanship.
On the back, presumably after the departure of the Russians, the stamp was taped, which later fell off. It says here; Cultural-historical Zinnfiguren (Cultural and historical tin figures) It was made for or by the Pos Erich Weinert Enzianschule. Frame is made of oak
Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin had been living in exile in Switzerland during the First World War. After the February Revolution he was permitted by the German authorities to travel via sealed train across German territory, take a ferry to Helsinki and thence a train to Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg was then known. Arriving at the city’s Finland Station he was met by a crowd of Bolshevik sympathisers and climbed onto the turret of an armoured car.
He rode the car to the Bolshevik headquarters at the Kshesinskaya Palace and delivered a speech in favour of Bolshevism and denouncing the moderate Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party. After the Russian Civil War, Lenin led the communist Soviet Union, but died of a stroke on 21 January 1924.