Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR and the FDJ organisation. “Bronze” edition.
The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 1.50 euro
Old pendant from the DDR made in 1957.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the coat of arms of the DDR.
The national emblem of East Germany featured a hammer and a compass, surrounded by a ring of rye. It was the only coat of arms of a European socialist state with a ring of grain which does not contain a red star.
The hammer represented the workers in the factories. The compass represented the intelligentsia, and the ring of rye the farmers. The first designs included only the hammer and ring of rye, as an expression of the DDR as a communist “Workers’ and Farmers’ state”. The emblem was adopted as the GDR’s national emblem by a law of 26 September 1955, and added to the national flag by a law of 1 October 1959.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the CCCP.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR orange edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR green edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR red edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR “gold” edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR silver edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR blue edition. The pin is from the Young Pioneers and students and is a badge of achievements, for traffic education.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Sport and Technology Association (GST).
The Sport and Technology Association was established in 1952 and ended in 1990. In 1988 it had 600.000 members. It was one of the East German “Mass Orgganizationss”. It was established to structure the free time of young people interested in sports and technology in group activities.
Each member was asked to bring in their technological equipment such as, motorcycles, aircraft, radios, and to pratice sports and participate in competitions such as motorraces and shooting. The association worked closely with the National People’s Army (NVA) in order to give children a pre militairy and discipline training.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Sport and Technology Association (GST). This pin was for the shooting sport. The silver edition.
The Sport and Technology Association was established in 1952 and ended in 1990. In 1988 it had 600.000 members. It was one of the East German “Mass Orgganizationss”. It was established to structure the free time of young people interested in sports and technology in group activities.
Each member was asked to bring in their technological equipment such as, motorcycles, aircraft, radios, and to pratice sports and participate in competitions such as motorraces and shooting. The association worked closely with the National People’s Army (NVA) in order to give children a pre militairy and discipline training.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Sport and Technology Association (GST). This pin was for the shooting sport. The bronze edition.
The Sport and Technology Association was established in 1952 and ended in 1990. In 1988 it had 600.000 members. It was one of the East German “Mass Orgganizationss”. It was established to structure the free time of young people interested in sports and technology in group activities.
Each member was asked to bring in their technological equipment such as, motorcycles, aircraft, radios, and to pratice sports and participate in competitions such as motorraces and shooting. The association worked closely with the National People’s Army (NVA) in order to give children a pre militairy and discipline training.
Price: 2.50 euro
Medal like pin from the Young Pioneer organisation with the image of Ernst Thalmann. There are version with and without a date.
Pin DDR from the JP organisation (Young Pioneers). The person on the pin is Ernst Thalmann, a communist leader before WWII. There are blue and purple versions of this pin, without and with years.
The Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The group was a subdivision of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ, Free German Youth), East Germany’s youth movement. It was founded in 1948 and broke apart in 1989 on German reunification. From the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all schoolchildren between ages 6 and 14 were organised into Young Pioneer or Thälmann Pioneer groups.
The pioneer group was loosely based on Scouting, but organised in such a way as to teach schoolchildren aged 6 – 14 socialist ideology and prepare them for the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the FDJ. Its organisation was similar to Scouting and other such organisations. Afternoons spent at the pioneer group mainly consisted of a mixture of adventure, myth-like socialist teaching and the upkeep of revolutionary traditions.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin has got a purple flag. Some have a year on it. Pins after 1975 are with a blue flag.
Pin DDR from the JP organisation (Young Pioneers). The person on the pin is Ernst Thalmann, a communist leader before WWII. There are blue and purple versions of this pin, without and with years.
The Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The group was a subdivision of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ, Free German Youth), East Germany’s youth movement. It was founded in 1948 and broke apart in 1989 on German reunification. From the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all schoolchildren between ages 6 and 14 were organised into Young Pioneer or Thälmann Pioneer groups.
The pioneer group was loosely based on Scouting, but organised in such a way as to teach schoolchildren aged 6 – 14 socialist ideology and prepare them for the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the FDJ. Its organisation was similar to Scouting and other such organisations. Afternoons spent at the pioneer group mainly consisted of a mixture of adventure, myth-like socialist teaching and the upkeep of revolutionary traditions.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin from the DDR in celebration of it’s 21 years anniversary. The pin is made in 1970.
Price: 2.00 euro
DDR pin made for celebrating 20 years of DDR. So the pin is made in 1969.
Price: 5.00 euro
Pin from the DDR made by the SED, the ruling party of East Germany. The text on the pin reads:”Socialistic Unity Party Germany (SED”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin from the DDR in it’s original box. The text on the pin reads:”For Patriotic Achievements” and this is the “silver” edition. There is also a “gold” edition of this pin.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin from the DDR in it’s original box. The text on the pin reads:”For Patriotic Achievements”. There is also a “silver” edition of this pin.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin was made for the DFD women’s organisation. In it’s original box. The pin came in three classes; gold, silver and bronze. On the front thre is the logo and the text on the back reads:”For Special Services”.
The Democratic Women’s League of Germany (DFD) was the mass women’s organisation in East Germany. It was established in March 1947 and had the following official aims: Removal of fascist ideas, Education for women, Equal rights, Fair social living conditions, Education of children in the spirit of humanism and peace and Co-operation with the international women’s movement. The organisation ended in 1990 and had 1.5 million members.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Mao Zedong. Only available on Propagandaworld.
Price: 10.00 euro
Pin from the DSF organisation in it’s original box.
The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 4.50 euro
DDR pin in it’s original box. Shown are the coat of arms and on the background the DDR flag.
Price: 3.50 euro
DDR pin in it’s original box. Shown are the coat of arms and on the background the DDR flag.
Price: 3.00 euro
DDR pin in it’s original box. Shown are the coat of arms and on the background the DDR flag.
Price: 2.50 euro
DDR pin in it’s original box. Shown is the coat of arms and on the background the DDR flag.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin was made for the DFD women’s organisation. In it’s original box. The pin came in three classes; gold, silver and bronze. On the front thre is the logo and the text on the back reads:”For Special Services”.
The Democratic Women’s League of Germany (DFD) was the mass women’s organisation in East Germany. It was established in March 1947 and had the following official aims: Removal of fascist ideas, Education for women, Equal rights, Fair social living conditions, Education of children in the spirit of humanism and peace and Co-operation with the international women’s movement. The organisation ended in 1990 and had 1.5 million members.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size pin:3.8x3cm./1.4×1.1inch.
Pin in it’s original box. The text on teh pin reads:”Civil Defense”. This pin also came sometimes with a plastic layer on it. This pin was awarded until 1990.
The Civil defense of the GDR was an organization for the protection of the population, the economy, vital facilities and cultural values against the consequences of disasters and accidents. In the event of war, it should also serve to protect its own population from military operations.
Price: 4.00 euro
Pin from Hungary about Labour day 1951.
Labour Day (or International Worker’s Day) is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists and anarchists.
Labour day was established in 1890 as an international protest day for demanding a 8 hour working day, labour rights and for keeping the peace.
Price: 2.50 euro
DDR pin in it’s original box. Shown is the coat of arms and on the background the DDR flag.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin DDR in it’s original box. Beneath the pin the is a hanging device. Normally this pin was attached above a medal.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 9gr./0.3oz.
Probably a modern version of a Mao badge.
A Chairman Mao badge is a small pin or brooch that features an image of Mao Zedong, and that normally was worn pinned to the wearer’s chest. The standard Mao badge is 1-3cm in diameter, made of aluminium, red in colour, and features a raised embossed image of Mao’s head in profile, usually facing towards the left. Beyond this basic design, however, tens of thousands of more complex designs were also made, in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials (including porcelain, plastic, bamboo and many others). Badge content was also diverse: they included references to revolutionary history, commemorated important events, and played a role in defining identities in the factional struggles during the Cultural Revolution. While exact production numbers are unknown, it is estimated that between 2 and 5 billion badges were made, mostly during the years 1966-1969. During the early years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), most people owned or desired to own one or a number of badges, and many people, especially Red Guards, wore them daily. Because of this, Mao badges constitute an important part of the visual environment of the Cultural Revolution, and play a key role in many people’s recollection of the Mao era.
After Mao’s death in 1976, the government recalled and re-cycled badges, and while it is estimated that up to 90% of badges were destroyed in this way, millions more remained in private hands.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 6cm./2.3inch.
Weight: 11gr./0.3oz.
Probably a modern version of a Mao badge.
A Chairman Mao badge is a small pin or brooch that features an image of Mao Zedong, and that normally was worn pinned to the wearer’s chest. The standard Mao badge is 1-3cm in diameter, made of aluminium, red in colour, and features a raised embossed image of Mao’s head in profile, usually facing towards the left. Beyond this basic design, however, tens of thousands of more complex designs were also made, in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials (including porcelain, plastic, bamboo and many others). Badge content was also diverse: they included references to revolutionary history, commemorated important events, and played a role in defining identities in the factional struggles during the Cultural Revolution. While exact production numbers are unknown, it is estimated that between 2 and 5 billion badges were made, mostly during the years 1966-1969. During the early years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), most people owned or desired to own one or a number of badges, and many people, especially Red Guards, wore them daily. Because of this, Mao badges constitute an important part of the visual environment of the Cultural Revolution, and play a key role in many people’s recollection of the Mao era.
After Mao’s death in 1976, the government recalled and re-cycled badges, and while it is estimated that up to 90% of badges were destroyed in this way, millions more remained in private hands.
Price: 1.50 euro
Ship Vladimir Komarov a satellite tracking ship of the Soviet Union. It was named after Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov, the cosmonaut who died on Soyuz 1. It was built as an ordinary cargo ship in 1966 and converted in Leningrad in 1967. It was decommissioned in 1989.
Price: 1.50 euro
Konigstein is a little village in East germany close to the (formaly) Czechoslovakian border.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR for celebrating 23 years of DDR. The DDR was founded in 1949, so this in is from 1972.
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.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR from the Young Pioneers organisation (JP).
The Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The group was a subdivision of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ, Free German Youth), East Germany’s youth movement. It was founded in 1948 and broke apart in 1989 on German reunification. From the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all schoolchildren between ages 6 and 14 were organised into Young Pioneer or Thälmann Pioneer groups.
The pioneer group was loosely based on Scouting, but organised in such a way as to teach schoolchildren aged 6 – 14 socialist ideology and prepare them for the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the FDJ. Its organisation was similar to Scouting and other such organisations. Afternoons spent at the pioneer group mainly consisted of a mixture of adventure, myth-like socialist teaching and the upkeep of revolutionary traditions.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DSF organisation.
The Society for German–Soviet Friendship (in German, Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft/DSF) was an East German organization set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was founded as the Society for the Studies of Soviet Culture to teach about Russian culture to Germans unfamiliar with it. It quickly turned into a propaganda tool and eventually changed its name.
Due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF’s membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. In 1989 there were 6.3 million members.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR. The text on the pin reads:”Combat Groups Of The Working Class”, and above the logo of the KDA:”Sport Competion 1977″.
Price: 1.50 euro
DDR pin celebrating 19 years of DDR. The DDR became in 1949 so this pin is from 1968.
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.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin about the March uprising in Germany in 1921. Marchkampfe means:”March Fight”.
The March Action was a 1921 failed Communist uprising, led by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the Communist Workers’ Party of Germany (KAPD), and other far-left organisations. It took place in the industrial regions located in Halle, Leuna, Merseburg, and Mansfeld.
The leadership of the KPD hoped for a spontaneous uprising of the workers. Revolutionary actions were to be initiated primarily through propaganda in the party newspaper “Rote Fahne” (Red Flag). The workers initially behaved cautiously. Despite the call from the KPD district leadership for a general strike. Work continued in most companies outside the district of Mansfeld. Only on the following day did the work stoppages in the mining area Mansfeld-Eisleben expand.
With the arrival of the KAPD member Max Hoelz the strike movement escalated into a violent insurrection. Hoelz spoke at various strike assemblies and called on the workers to violently resist the police. The first violent attacks on police officers in Eisleben occurred during 22 March. Hoelz began to equip striking workers and unemployed miners with weapons and organise them into raiding parties, which subjected the area around Mansfeld, Eisleben and Hettstedt to arson, looting, bank robbery and explosives attacks. Trains were derailed and railway lines blown up.
The uprising movement also threatened to spread to the Free State of Saxony, where unsuccessful bombings against justice buildings in Dresden, Leipzig and Freiberg had occurred. Bloody clashes between workers and police also occurred in Hamburg. However, the government troops managed to gain the upper hand and at the end of March the uprisings were finally suppressed. The Leuna works was a particularly strong bastion of influence of KAPD, where half of the 20,000 strong workforce belonged to their associated workplace organisation, the General Workers’ Union of Germany (AAUD). During the revolt they fought with rifles and automatic weapons. They also built their own tank, which they deployed against the police. The authorities only retook the plant with the use of artillery.
Over a hundred people lost their lives in the fighting, and more than 3,000 insurgents were arrested.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from a unknown country. If you know where this pin is from and what it means you het it for free!
Price: 2.00 euro
DDR pin from 1967. The FDJ (Free German Youth) was for promotion of communist behaviour and was often a stepping stone to the army or to the SED (Socialist Unity Party Germany). The FDJ organised annually Parlament (Congress). In total they had 12 congresses, the first one in 1946 and the last one in 1985. It was ment to initiate new members and to celebrate members who leaved the FDJ to go into the army or to make a political career. This pin is from the 8th. parlament in 1967 in Karl Marx City, now called Chemnitz.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin DDR for celebrating 24 years of DDR. The DDR was founded in 1949, so this in is from 1973.
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.
Price: 2.00 euro
Pin DDR for 20 years of membership FDJ (Free German Youth) and GST (Sport And Technology Association).
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin DDR about 25 years of participation of the FDJ, the Free German Youth Organisation.
The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.
Price: 2.50 euro
Pin from the DDR, Young Pioneers organisation. The text on the pin reads:”All Around”.
The Ernst Thalmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14. They were named after Ernst Thälmann, the former leader of the Communist Party of Germany who was executed at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The group was a subdivision of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ, Free German Youth), East Germany’s youth movement. It was founded in 1948 and broke apart in 1989 on German reunification. From the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all schoolchildren between ages 6 and 14 were organised into Young Pioneer or Thälmann Pioneer groups.
The pioneer group was loosely based on Scouting, but organised in such a way as to teach schoolchildren aged 6 – 14 socialist ideology and prepare them for the Freie Deutsche Jugend, the FDJ. Its organisation was similar to Scouting and other such organisations. Afternoons spent at the pioneer group mainly consisted of a mixture of adventure, myth-like socialist teaching and the upkeep of revolutionary traditions.
Price: 4.00 euro
Rare pin from Chile. The pin could be issued by the Socialist Party of Chile when they ruled the country as part of the Popular Unity coalition with Salvador Allende as leader. A militairy coup with Pinochet as leader overthrew the Popular Unity coalition with force in 1973. The pin could also have been made after 1973.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union and is an image of the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral located in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is a cathedral that currently functions as a museum with occasional church services in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint.
It was originally built as a cathedral but was turned into a museum by the Soviet government in 1931 and has remained a museum ever since. In 2017, the Governor of Saint Petersburg offered to transfer the cathedral back to the Russian Orthodox Church, but this was not accomplished due to the protests of St Petersburg citizens opposing the offer.
Price: 1.50 euro
DDR pin from the FDJ (Free German Youth) organisation with the image of Karl Marx. This pin came in bronze, silver and gold. This is the “silver” edition.
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. The organisation still exists today.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin made in honor of the excistence of 15 years of DDR. So the pin is made in 1964.
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.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the DDR and the KTW organisation. The text on the pin reads:”Toerims, Hiking, Joys Of Life”.
The Committee for Tourism and Hiking (KTW) was a state organ of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) that existed from 1956 to 1974, whose task was “the promotion of physical culture, school and popular sports and tourism”.
The committee was also involved in the publication of hiking maps, travel guides and the magazine “Unterwegs” (On The Way). The KTW also coordinated the Xth World Festival in 1973. The committee had its seat in the same building as the Central Council of the FDJ, the Berlin Zollernhof. Despite all this, the committee was dissolved in November 1974. Its tasks were taken over by the youth travel agency “Jugendtourist” set up by the FDJ.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin is about the Day Of The Miner. The text on the pin reads:”20 Years Day Of The Miner Of The DDR”.
The day of the miner and the energy worker was a day of honor for the miners and, since 1975, also for the energy workers in the German Democratic Republic.
It took place annually on the 1st Sunday of July and was used as an opportunity to publicly honor miners and energy workers. The first day of the miner took place on September 17, 1950. Since the following year, the honor has been held on the 1st Sunday in July. From 1951 to 1967 it was called the day of the German miner, from 1968 to 1974 the day of the miner of the GDR and from 1975 finally the day of the miner and the energy worker.
Every miner who took part in the celebration and received a badge with an annually changing mining motif as well as the current designation and the year as inscription. Miner’s Day had the character of a festival; In addition to the official ceremony, there were various events for the buddies, their families and guests. Since other areas of the GDR’s economy were also to be honored with special days, it was decided from 1975 to introduce further special days and to expand existing ones.
(2.5.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Buttons from the DPRK made for the Arirang Festival.
The Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang is a mass gymnastics and artistic festival held in Pyongyang, North Korea. The games usually take place in August or September. The games were held annually between 2002 and 2013, with the exception of 2006. After a five year hiatus, the Arirang Mass Games returned for a performance entitled ‘The Glorious Country’ in 2018.
In August 2007, the Arirang Mass Games were recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest gymnastic display with 100,090 participants at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang. Arirang is a Korean folk song that is often considered to be the anthem of Korea. There are about 3,600 variations of 60 different versions of the song, all of which include a similar refrain. It is estimated the song is more than 600 years old.
Arirang is included twice on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. By South Korea and North Korea.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Pablo Escobar. Only available on Propagandaworld!
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1949-1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel. Dubbed “The King of Cocaine,” Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death (equivalent to $59 billion as of 2019) while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
Price: 2.00 euro
When you got this pin from the goverment you got the titel “shock worker of communist labour”. It was an official titel of honour awarded in the Soviet Union to those who displayed exemplary performance in labour discipline. It was awarded with this badge and a certificate as well as a cash prize.
Price: 2.00 euro
Lenin Pin.
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, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
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, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Beautiful Lenin Komsomol pin.
(R.23.20)
Prive: 29.00 euro
Size: 9.5cm./3.7inch.
Weight: 64gr./2.2oz.
Wallplate Stalin. A brass image of Stalin that has a bakelite back. Picture can be hung but also stand on the mantelpiece, as leg folds out. This is the more luxurious version, later images were often made of plastic.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.
(R.62.5.20)
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 10.8cm./4.2inch.
Weight: 162gr./5.7oz.
Wall plates set Lenin Stalin made from Herend porcelain. Very old wall plates with the stamps of Herend that were only used in the 1950s! Of course also numbered and with text HEREND. Another special style with gold glazed outter ring. Original strings are also included.
The Herend Porcelain Manufactory is a Hungarian manufacturing company, specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain. Founded in 1826, it is based in the town of Herend near the city of Veszprém. In the mid-19th century it was purveyor to the Habsburg Dynasty and aristocratic customers throughout Europe. Many of its classic patterns are still in production.
After the fall of Communism in Hungary the factory was privatised and is now 75% owned by its management and workers. As of 2006, the factory is profitable and exports to over 60 countries of the world. Its main markets are Italy, Japan, Russia and the US.
Price: 2.00 euro
Lenin Pin.
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, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
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, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
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, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Button with the text:”Leningrad”. The image on teh button is the Palace Bridge.
Although it is only a 20th century creation, Palace Bridge is one of the famous sights of St. Petersburg, and is quite literally unmissable for most visitors to the city, who will find themselves continually using the bridge to move between Palace Square, home to the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum, and the numerous historic attractions on Vasilevskiy Ostrov.
Price: 1.50 euro
Button from the Soviet Union. The text on the button reads:”Leningrad”. The image of the button shows one of the 4 Horse Tamers statue.
On each corner of the Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg (Leningrad) there is a different Horse Tamer statue.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4cm./1.5inch.
Button with Leningrad from th cold war era. On the button there is imaged, the Bronze Horseman.
The Bronze Horseman is an statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg. The statue’s pedestal is the enormous Thunder Stone, the largest stone ever moved by humans. The stone originally weighed about 1500 tonnes, but was carved down during transportation to its current size.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Union army pin with screw on the back. Militairy Specialist 1st. Class.
Price: 3.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
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Price: 2.50 euro
Red Army Navy officer hat pin.
Price: 2.50 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 3.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Unio red army hat pin.
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Price: 2.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 2.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. Soviet amry warrior athlete 3rd. class. The text on the pin reads:”Warrior Athlete”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. Soviet amry warrior athlete 2nd. class. The text on the pin reads:”Warrior Athlete”.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about GTO organization. This is the “Golden” III pin made in the 1970’s.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO (Russian: ГТО) was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative of the Komsomol (the youth movement).
It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. While the latter provided Soviet physical education system requirements only for athletes, GTO was a programme for all Soviet people of almost all ages. By the year 1976, 220 million people were awarded GTO badges, while in 1986 the tests were passed by 33.9 million people.
After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, the GTO programme was eliminated in the most of former Soviet republics. In Russia the GTO programme did not exist for some ten years, but has begun to be revived since 2003. On March 24, 2014 president Vladimir Putin signed a decree to restore GTO in modern Russian Federation under the same traditional name.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin is about GTO organization. This is the GTO II made in the 1960’s.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO (Russian: ГТО) was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative of the Komsomol (the youth movement).
It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. While the latter provided Soviet physical education system requirements only for athletes, GTO was a programme for all Soviet people of almost all ages. By the year 1976, 220 million people were awarded GTO badges, while in 1986 the tests were passed by 33.9 million people.
After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, the GTO programme was eliminated in the most of former Soviet republics. In Russia the GTO programme did not exist for some ten years, but has begun to be revived since 2003. On March 24, 2014 president Vladimir Putin signed a decree to restore GTO in modern Russian Federation under the same traditional name.
(R.55.20)
Price: 66.00 euro
Size: 33cm./12.9inch.
Weight: 1832gr./64.6oz.
Sergei Korolev (1907-1966) is responsible for the first human in space, but also the sputnik is his creation. Korolev was a Ukrainian-Soviet-Russian physicist and engineer specializing in rocket technology and father of the Soviet space program. Sergei Korolev is the man responsible for the first animal and human space flight. Statue is made of a kind of nylon and very heavy. It stands on a black base with an inscription.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union showing the Spasskaya Tower on the Red Square.
The Spasskaya Tower, translated as ‘Saviour Tower’, is the main tower on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin which overlooks Red Square. The tower was commissioned to be built by Ivan III, or Ivan the Great, and the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible.
The Spasskaya Tower was built in 1491 by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari. According to a number of historical accounts, the clock on the Spasskaya Tower appeared between 1491 and 1585. It is usually referred to as the Kremlin chimes and designates official Moscow Time.
The tower gate was once the main entrance into the Kremlin. In tsarist times, anyone passing through the gates had to remove their headgear, crossing thenselves and dismount their horses. This practice was revived in 2010, but ceremonially.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from a unknown country. If you know where this pin is from and what it means you het it for free!
(R.18.20)
Price: 24.00 euro
Size: 21×15.5cm./8.2×6.1inch.
Weight: 200gr./7oz.
Complete set of 25 cards of the first space explorers of the Soviet Union, 1972. The set consists of 25 cards in the original folder. On the back of each card a description of the man or woman and the flights that have been flown.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Che Guevara. Only available on Propagandaworld!
(R.135.20)
Price: 135.00 euro
Size: 14.5x12cm./5.7×4.7inch.
Weight: 275gr./9.7oz.
Rare Sputnik Music box Propaganda piece, first satellite in space. Made of metal, aluminum, wood and plastic. The pedestal reads 4-10-1957 CCCP. If the gold-colored aluminum globe on the top of the foot is turned slightly, the melody will play, but can also be stopped by turning it back. Music box has been checked, adjusted and lubricated by a clockmaker, everything works perfectly.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad” Now known as St. Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the Kremlin in Moscow.
The Moscow Kremlin (meaning fortress inside a city)is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square to the east, and the Alexander Garden to the west.
It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels), and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. In addition, within this complex is the Grand Kremlin Palace that was formerly the Tsar’s Moscow residence. The complex now serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation and as a museum with 2,746,405 visitors in 2017.
Price: 1.50 euro
This Soviet Union pin shows the Pushkin Pavillion and is located at Catherine Park near St. Petersburg.
The Catherine Park is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia.
The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Krivbass Ore Mines in Ukraine. Till this date it is the largest ore deposit in Europe.
(R.28.20)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 7.5×4.9cm./2.9×1.9inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
First Satellite, Sputnik Propaganda piece, first satellite in space. Made of metal, aluminum and plastic base. On the Sputnik is a hammer and sickle. Gold colored aluminum globe part. The pedestal has the date 4-X-1959 CCCP.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Stalin and a peace dove. Only available on Propagandaworld.
(R.100.20)
Price: 100.00 euro
Sputnik tea glass holders. Sputnik was the first thing ever shot into space by a human! Highly sought after and certainly as a set of six. Four have a glass. The tea glass holder is made of silver plated Melchior (cupronickel) in the USSR, 1960s.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the Administration building of the Smolensk Oblast (province) in Russia.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Glorious Soviet Army”.
(R.22.20)
Price: 27.00 euro
Size: 7.5×4.9cm./2.9×1.9inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Propaganda space desktop. The Boctok rocket with CCCP, a globe and the date of Gagarin’s first flight. First human in space. Made of metal, aluminum and a plastic base. Bostok is on the rocket. Gold colored aluminum globe part. The pedestal has the date 12-IX-1961 CCCP The bracket spells the letters CCCP.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the cruiser Aurora.
The Aurora was made in 1903 and most of the crew joined the Bolshevics who were preparing a communist revolution led by Lenin in 1917. This ship fired the first shot signalling the start of the October revolution. In WWII the guns was taken off the ship to use it for the defence of Leningrad. After the war the Aurora was a navy training vessel and later, till this day, a museum located at St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad).
(R.53.20)
Price: 60.00 euro
Size: 18×11.5cm./7×2.8×4.5inch.
Weight: 241gr./8.5oz.
Soviet Union globe clock with rocket. With alarm and in perfect working condition. Metal clock stands on a white bakelite base. The back of the clock can be removed to wind up the clock. When the rocket is pressed down, the alarm will stop.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Ice Hockey Cup in 1975. The 1975–76 Soviet Cup was the 17th. edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. Dynamo Moscow won the cup for the third time in their history.
In the same year the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships were held in West Germany. The Soviet Union won all of their games, and became World Champions for the fourteenth time, and won their 17th European title.
(R.62.5.20)
Price: 70.00 euro
Size: 15x17cm./5.9×6.6inch.
Weight: 696gr./24.5oz.
Clock CCCP Boctok 1 (12-4-1961)the space flight of Yuri Gagarin. Released in honor of Gagarin’s space flight around the Earth. Clock should represent the earth, Gagarin’s Boctok missile shoots past it. Clock has a smart winding system, key does not have to be released, but only moved back and forth. The time can be set correctly with the same key. the clock is tested and works.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. On the pin there is the text CCCP and a map of the Soviet Union can been seen with a red star on the location of Moscow.
(95.20)
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 26cm./10.2inch.
Weight: 1492gr./52.6oz.
Space age rocket fan from the CCCP era. Works well and in new condition. Rocket with 3 blades. The blades are made of bakelite, just like the plug, and stands on a chrome bracket complete with all 5 rubber rings. Blade is made of soft plastic so it is safe to touch it while spinning. Fan can be adjusted to any position.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”.
(R.39.20)
Price: 47.00 euro
Size: 20x18cm./7.8x7inch.
Weight: 1530gr./54oz.
Saturn ink pot and pen holder made in 1967. Very beautiful. Made of gray marble inlaid with white marble (rings) Complete with jar and lid and inscription. This item was used once, see ink stains, so it was accually on somebody’s desk.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Water Tower”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Czechoslovakian pin. Probably made in the 1950’s.
Svazarm or Union for Cooperation with the Army was, in Communist Czechoslovakia, the largest “paramilitary” organisation and was established in 1951.
In 1985, it had about one million members, 60% of whom were under 35 years of age. The activities the Svazarm provided were extremely diverse, ranging from medical training to dog training. Shortwave radio operation was another popular activity, and was also useful for creating future radio operators in the army.
A more specialised branch of the Svazarm, based at Košice, trained pilots for the air force. Training included at least twenty flight hours of glider training and forty hours of basic training on motorised aeroplanes, as well as the necessary aviation theory.
There were also sections: Model airplanes and gliding (formally DOSLET), motor sport section (motorcycles and cars) and all sorts of shooting sports.
Svazarm also operated its own hi-fi club and record label, Čs. Hifi-klub, which distributed its releases primarily to club members. The repertoire included Czechoslovak and Warsaw Pact as well as Western artists.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is showing the ship wich stands on top of the Admiralty building in St. petersburg.
The Admiralty is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy in St. Petersburg, Russia and the current headquarters of the Russian Navy. The edifice was rebuilt in the nineteenth century to support the Tsar’s maritime ambitions. Located at the western end of the Nevsky Prospekt, The Admiralty with its gilded spire topped by a golden weather-vane in the shape of a small sail warship (Korablik), is one of the city’s most conspicuous landmarks and the focal point of old St. Petersburg’s three main streets underscoring the importance Peter I placed on Russia’s Navy.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC from the Soviet Union issued in 1966. The text on the envelop reads:”20 years of Space Age. Orbital Stations Are The Path To Space Exploration”.
(R.80.20)
Price: 80.00 euro
Size: 20cm./7.8inch.
Weight: 214gr./7.5oz.
Rocket Pen 1961 Gagarin Boctok. The rarest space travel rocket pen out there. This vintage pen was once released to mark the victory of humans to visit space for the first time. Pen is in very good condition (new condition) which makes it even more special. Base appears to be painted metal. On the side of the rocket it says “BOCTOK” and the pen has double wings and gold colored bracket. Pen uses ink that is sucked up by means of a pump. When the back is turned, the piston rises and the pen fills.
(3.37.20)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 61.5x43cm./24.2×16.9inch.
Poster from The Netherlands, 1979, announcement for a demonstration and manifestation against the Junta of Chili and with a call for international isolation of the Junta of Chile.
The 1973 Chilean coup d’état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S President Richard Nixon, a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet and Admiral José Toribio Merino seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule.
The military established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, especially communist and socialist parties and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Pinochet rose to supreme power within a year of the coup and was formally declared President of Chile in late 1974. The Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup, promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.
During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his final speech, vowing to stay in the presidential palace and refusing offers of safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. Direct witness accounts of Allende’s death agree that he killed himself in the palace.
Price: 1.50 euro
The building on the pin is the Suvorov Museum in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. The text on the in reads:”Suvorov Museum Leningrad”. Dating this pin from the Cold War era.
The Suvorov Memorial Museum in Saint Petersburg is a military museum dedicated to the memory of Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800). It was founded in 1900 to commemorate the century of Suvorov’s death and was inaugurated four years later, on the 175th anniversary of Suvorov’s birth in the presence of Emperor Nicholas II.
In 1904, the museum moved into the present building, purpose-built to a flamboyant design by Alexander von Hohen in a dramatic Russian Revival style. The building’s austere appearance derives primarily from medieval Muscovite military architecture. Apart from the Suvorov family coat of arms and signs of military glory, the facade displays two mosaics representing “Suvorov Leaving Russia for Italy in 1799” and “Suvorov Crossing the Alps”.
The museum’s collections, exceeding 100,000 items in 2002, were acquired through purchase and private donations. It also keeps the biggest collection of tin soldiers with over 60.000 pieces. The Communist authorities had the museum closed down in 1919 and the collections were dispersed to other museums. In the 1930s, the building housed the AeroMuseum. During the Siege of Leningrad, it was damaged by a bomb. During World War II the respect of Suvorov was restored in the Soviet military. As a consequence, the museum building was renovated in 1950 and resumed its activity the following year. The latest restoration was undertaken in 1995-2000.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the cold war era. The text on the top of the pin says:”Minsk”. Minsk is the capital of Belarus.
Price: 1.50 euro
The boat on the pin is the Botik of peter The Great. The text above the pin says::”Peter’s First Boat” beneath that the text reads:”Grandfather Of The Russian Fleet”.
The Botik of Peter the Great (also called St. Nicholas) is a miniaturized scaled-down warship discovered by Peter the Great at the Royal Izmaylovo Estate in 1688. It was restored by Karshten Brandt, and Peter learned to sail using the boat on waters near Moscow.
It was stored in the Kremlin of Moscow by Peter and later enshrined in St. Petersburg. Peter continued to use it in state ceremonies and ordered that the boat be sailed down the Neva River on 30 August of every year. It was used in state ceremonies of later Russian monarchs, including the wedding of Catherine the Great and Peter III of Russia, as well as the centennial celebration of St. Petersburg. Catherine built a boathouse in the 1760s to store it.
The boat became less important under Soviet rule, along with other objects from the Russian Empire; however, patriotism during the outbreak of the Second World War led to a renewal of the importance of Peter the Great and the botik along with him. The boat was moved by the Soviets to the Central Naval Museum where it remains today.
Price: 2.00 euro
Pin about 40 years of victory WWII thus made in 1985. The text on the top of the pin says:”40 Years Of Victory” and beneath that:”Glory To The Victorious People”. In the middle of the pin is the medal Order Of The Patriotic War. This medal was awarded for soldiers for heroic deeds but in 1985 everybody who was a Red Army soldier in WWII was awarded this medal. Beneath the medal there is the eternal flame for fallen soldiers.
(R.75.20)
Price: 90.00 euro
Size: 35×11.5cm./13.7×4.5inch.
Weight: 1175gr./41.4oz.
A great desktop piece completely handmade in the mid 60’s from bakelite, red plastic plate and a piece of cut Plexiglass. On top an ebonite rocket. The whole thing is screwed together layer by layer. Unique item! The desktop is modelled from the enormous Conquerors Of Space monument in Moscow.
The monument is a giant obelisk erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 107 meters (351 feet) tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 166gr./5.8oz.
Medal from the DDR. On the front of the medal there is the image of the enormous monument in Treptower park in Berlin. Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949. The front of the medal says:”Soviet Memorial Berlin Treptow”. The back of the medal says:”Berlin, Capital Of The DDR”.
(R.95.20)
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 61.5cm./24.2inch.
Weight: 630gr./22.2oz.
Russian Zeit Rocket. Handmade. Zenit is a Russian missile that was further developed in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union. Very rare. Rocket is handmade and even the texts and drawings are painted by hand. Entirely made of aluminum. The intermediate piece is open and the rocket nozzles can be seen in between. The octagonal base has a diameter of 8.4 cm. Diameter of the rocket is 4 cm and the height no less than 61.5 cm and weighs 630 grams Built in the 1980s, Zenit is the last missile family developed by the Soviet Union. The plan was to have the Zenit take over the Soyuz’s manned spaceship launches, but these plans were abandoned after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Zenit is a space rocket designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of the Soviet Union, and further developed by the same design bureau since the early 1990s, but is now part of Ukraine.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Yuri Gagarin!
(R.17.5.20)
Price: 21.00 euro
Size: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 224gr./7.9oz.
Desktop ornament with the image of Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Price: 4.00 euro
Complete matchbox label set from the Soviet Union with images of soccer. Made late 1950’2, early 1960’s. In excellent condition.
(R.58.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 31x22gr./12.2×8.6inch.
Weight: 590gr./20.8oz.
Interkosmos pin set made 1980. Box with 7 pins and 1 large plague (8cm./3.1inch). Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.
The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Central Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.
Central Naval Museum is a naval museum in St Petersburg, Russia. It is one of the first museums in Russia and one of the world’s largest naval museums, with a large collection of artefacts, models and paintings reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy.
The museum’s permanent display includes such relics as the Botik of Peter the Great, Catherine II’s marine throne, trophies captured in sea battles, and the personal belongings of prominent Russian and Soviet naval commanders. The collection includes paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexey Bogolyubov, Lev Lagorio and other marine artists, ship sculpture, navigational instruments, naval equipment and machinery from the 17th to 20th centuries and numerous models of ships. The main exposition consists of nineteen halls. There is a complex of six museum halls for exhibitions.
Price: 2.00 euro
Pin from Czechoslovakia and made in 1955. The text on the pin reads:”Nationwide Spartakiad”.
The Spartakiads in Czechoslovakia were mass gymnastics events, designed to celebrate the Red Army’s liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. The name refers to the 1921 Prague Spartakiad organised by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. They were organised by the Communist government. The Spartakiads took place at the Strahov Stadium, the largest stadium ever built.
The first Spartakiad took place in 1955, and was subsequently held every five years. The Spartakiad scheduled for 1970 was canceled in the wake of the Prague Spring. Preparations for the Spartakiad scheduled for 1990 were interrupted by the Velvet Revolution, but the event still took place, although on a much smaller scale than the previous ones.
The Spartakiads were attended by large numbers of people; for example, at the 1960 Spartakiad about 750,000 gymnasts from the whole country took part and over 2,000,000 spectators witnessed the event. Men and women of all ages practiced their exercising routines for the event. Appearance was originally mandatory for students and servicemen of the armed forces and police.
Price: 1.50 euro
The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. The 2 anchors on the pin can also been found on the flag and coat of arms of Leningrad. The year 1703 is the year Peter The Great founded the city.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
(50.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Great propaganda watch with Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. Beautiful watch with the image of Yuri Gagarin, a rocket and red star.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
(R.65.20)
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 11.5×11.5cm./4.5×4.5inch.
Weight: 96gr./3.3oz.
Interkosmos Silver pins set made in 1980. All 3 pins have a silver stamp.
Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth. The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
(5.20)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 13x9cm./5.1×3.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.7oz.
Membership booklet of the Communist Party Netherlands (CPN) issued in 1969. A member had to pay a weekly tribute depending on his of her income. With each payment a sticker would put in the book for proof.
(R.165.20)
Price: 198.00
Size: 26.5×19.5cm./10.4×7.6inch.
Weight: 580gr./20.4oz.
This is a model of the Soviet spaceship moon walker Maan Lunokhod 1. Made around 1971. The toy works properly, light flashes and all 8 wheels are driven. It is in played condition. The lid of the box has cracks and is damaged, but still included. Works on a standard flat battery. The lunar vehicle was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers to land on the moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The spacecraft carrying Lunokhod 1 was called Luna 17. Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970. After reaching Earth orbit, the final phase of Luna 17’s launch rocket was fired to orbit it towards the moon . Mission Results – During the 322 Earth days of operations, Lunokhod traveled 10,540 meters and returned more than 20,000 TV images. The location of the Lunokhod 1 has been uncertain since 1971. In November 2010, the location of the rover was determined to within an inch.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 11×7.5cm./4.3×2.9inch.
Weight: 36gr./1.2oz.
Pages: 59
Little red book with five articles from Mao Zedong. Published in 1972.
(R.7.5.20)
Price: 7.50
Size: 27×18.5cm./10.6×7.2inch.
Weight: 9gr./0.3oz.
Original pressphoto from Hungary showing a parade in Moscow in 1979. The text on the photo reads:”The Soviet capital greeted the 62nd. anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution with a parade of military ornaments”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 11×3.5cm./4.3×1.3inch.
Weight: 22gr./0.7oz.
Army uniform epaulets from the DDR.
(R.7.5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 27×18.5cm./10.6×7.2inch.
Weight: 9gr./0.3oz.
Original Hungarian press photo with the TV Tower in Berlin. The text on the photo reads:”The German Democratic Republic Was Formed Thirty Years Ago”. That means that this press photo is from 1979.
Price: 0.30 euro
Complete set of 5 stamps with fish North Korea made in 1990.
(R.24.20)
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 32x25cm./12.6×9.8inch.
Weight: 450gr./15.8oz.
Vintage Che Guevara sholder bag with key holder. Truly in new condition bag with on the front his image with above it “Hasta la victoria Siempre!” meaning:”Always Towards Victory!”
The bag has a compartment with a zipper on the front and a compartment on the inside that can be closed with a zipper. Label inside is stitched red “Chë” Super cool. Vintage but still very popular and can be used daily.
Price: 1.50 euro
FDC from the Soviet Union made in 1986. The text under the image reads:”Hero Of The Soviet Union, Pilot Cosmonaut, Gherman Stepanovich Titov.
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.
Titov’s flight finally proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), the first to pilot a spaceship and to spend more than a day in space. He was also the first to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness (becoming the first person to vomit in space). Titov made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern space photography. He also was the first person to film the Earth using a professional movie camera, which he used for ten minutes. In his subsequent life Titov continued to work for the Soviet space program, and played a major role in the Spiral project where he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital spaceplane.
However, after the death of Yuri Gagarin in a military aircraft accident in 1968, the Soviet government decided it could not afford to lose its second cosmonaut, and so Titov’s career as test pilot ended.
Titov served in the Soviet Air Force, attaining the rank of colonel-general. In his final years in post-Soviet Russia he became a Communist politician. Despite having been chosen second, after Gagarin, to fly into space, it was Titov who later proposed the Soviet Government regularly celebrate Cosmonautics Day on April 12, the day of Gagarin’s flight.
(R.45.20)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 14×9.5cm./5.5×3.7inch.
Weight: 630gr./22.2oz.
Soviet Union Sputnik shaving device for travel. Non electrical. Works perfectly. If you turn the key, you can turn it on or off by turning the dial next to the shaving head. On the heavy chrome-plated rotary knob that can fold back is in Russian:”Made in CCCP”. Above that the word Sputnik.
Purchased on October 31, 1968 and warranty expired on May 29, 1969. Complete with travel case, usage papers, cool photos, and in its original box with the text Sputnik on the front and an image of an airplane, train, boat and car.
(3.75.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 59x42cm./23.2×16.5inch.
Announcement poster from the South Africa Comittee for a manifestation in the dutch city of Utrecht. The poster is made around 1980. The South Africa Comittee was for supporting the struggle of the black community’s in South Africa during the apartheid regime. “Apartheid” is a south african/dutch word for “Seperation”. In this manifestaion the oil company of Shell was targeted for doing business in South Africa in despite of a almost worldwide boycot.
One of the most notable names on the poster is Robert Mugabe. Who would later become the leader and dictator of Zimbabwe. Mugabe was announced to be expected as a speaker on the manifestation among other political figures. It is unclear if he actually was present at the manifestation and did his speech.
(R.45.20)
Price: 54.00 euro
Size: 28×19.5cm./11×7.6inch.
Weight: 610gr./21.5oz.
Red WWII photo album German 1941 family of a Luftwaffe soldier with many photos Original photos in total 101 pieces!! Photo album was bought in 1941 during the Second World War. A family can be seen before, during and after the war. Parents probably did not survive because their son suddenly found in the mountains with his grandparents and there are no more pictures of his parents.
