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Various Cuba VC002 Che Guevara Lighters

Posted by Iljin on 30 March 2020

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Price: 1.50 a piece

Colourfull Che Guevara lighters. With 5 colours, green, lilac, orange, purple and blue. Very cool design.
Che Guevara’s real name was Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967). He was an Argentinian Marxist, physician, revolutionary and a Cuban guerilla warfare leader. As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America by bike and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed.
Later he took part in Fidel Castro’s succesfull revolution in Cuba in 1959. In 1966 he left Cuba to spread revolution in other country’s like Congo and Bolivia were he died. In 1967 he got arrested by a CIA conducted militairy operation in Bolivia and was executed one day later.
In 1997 his body was brought back to Cuba were he was put in a mausoleum, just like Lenin, Mao and Kim Il Sung.
He is most famous for his picture what was taken in 1960 by Alberto Korda when he was at a memorial service of a cargoship that blew up in Cuba with lots of deaths. One of the most iconic picture of all time.

Che Guevara

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Che Guevara

Various DDR VD011 Voluntary Helper People’s Police

Posted by Iljin on 29 March 2020

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(4.20)

Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18×11.5cm./7.08×4.5inch.

Red armband from the “Helfer Der Volkspolizei” meaning volunteer helper of the people’s police.
The FH was established by the East German government in 1952. Its function was to assist the Volkspolizei (“People’s Police”) in fighting crime and border violation and protecting public goods. The FH had the right to control traffic and were also called upon to take part in search and manhunt operations. Furthermore, there was intended to be an educational effect for the East Germans, because the FH volunteers were on patrol in residential areas and workplaces. The FH volunteers fulfilled their patrol missions in plain clothes, but were identifiable by their armband. The FH was disbanded a few days before German reunification in 1990.

Fahrzeugkontrolle durch Volkspolizist und Helfer

Helper Volkspolizei in action.

Various Soviet Russia VSR026 Ostankino TV Tower Handmade Illuminated

Posted by Iljin on 22 March 2020

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(R.67.5.20)

Price: 81.00 euro
Size: 59.5cm./23.4inch.
Weight: 540gr./19.04oz.

Ostankino Tower Illuminated Hand Made. The tower is made entirely by hand from high gloss stainless steel and is illuminated in the base and tower. Base is made of bakelite, tower from pieces of plastic and bakelite.
Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow owned by the Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network build ij 1967. Standing 540.1 metres (1,772 ft), Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently the tallest free standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower was the first free standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. Ostankino was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It is named after the surrounding Ostankino district of Moscow.

The Ostankino Tower.

The Ostankino Tower compared to other buildings.

Various Soviet Russia VSR025 Ostankino TV Tower In Original Box 1972

Posted by Iljin on 22 March 2020

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(R.47.5.20)

Price: 57.00 euro
Size: 35.5cm./13.9inch.
Weight: 540gr./19.04oz.

Model of the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow. In the top there is a light. It is in it’s original box. The tower is in perfect condition, on the box there are some damages but still good for it’s age. The inscription says:”In memory about visiting the proletarian district, Moscow, januari 1972″. Pedestal is made of metal, plastic tower and has a blue cable.
Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow owned by the Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network build ij 1967. Standing 540.1 metres (1,772 ft), Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently the tallest free standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower was the first free standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. Ostankino was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It is named after the surrounding Ostankino district of Moscow.

Various Soviet Russia VSR024 Ostankino TV Tower Handmade

Posted by Iljin on 21 March 2020

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(R.28.5.20)

Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 40cm./15.7inch.
Weight: 135gr./4.7oz.

This handmade model is modelled after the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. High gloss polished aluminum tower. It can be taken apart in 3 parts.
Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow owned by the Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network build ij 1967. Standing 540.1 metres (1,772 ft), Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently the tallest free standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower was the first free standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. Ostankino was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It is named after the surrounding Ostankino district of Moscow.

The Ostankino Tower.

The Ostankino Tower compared to other buildings.

Various Soviet Russia VSR023 Ostankino TV Tower

Posted by Iljin on 21 March 2020

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(R.49.5.20)

Price: 60.00 euro
Size: 54cm./21.2inch.
Weight: 1454gr./51.2oz.

This is modelled after the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. High gloss polished aluminum tower on marble base.
Ostankino Tower is a television and radio tower in Moscow owned by the Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network build ij 1967. Standing 540.1 metres (1,772 ft), Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is currently the tallest free standing structure in Europe and 11th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it was the tallest in the world. The tower was the first free standing structure to exceed 500 m (1,600 ft) in height. Ostankino was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It is named after the surrounding Ostankino district of Moscow.

The Ostankino Tower.

The Ostankino Tower compared to other buildings.

Various Soviet Russia VSR022 Cigarette Case 1957

Posted by Iljin on 20 March 2020

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(R.32.20)

Price: 40.00 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 40gr./1.4oz.

Cigarette case from 1957, to celebrate 40 years of October Revolution in 1917. Made of gold coloured aluminium with it’s original elastics still inside. In very good condition.

Various Soviet Russia VSR021 Cigarette Case 1967

Posted by Iljin on 19 March 2020

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(R.26.20)

Price: 32.50 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 54gr./1.9oz.

Cigarette case from 1967, to celebrate 50 years of October Revolution in 1917. Made of gold coloured aluminium with it’s original elastics still inside. In new state condition.

Various Soviet Russia VSR020 Cigarette Case

Posted by Iljin on 19 March 2020

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(R.26.20)

Price: 32.50 euro
Size: 10.5×8.5cm./4.1×3.3inch.
Weight: 93gr./3.2oz.

Cigarette case from the Soviet Union. Made of chromed metal.

Various DDR VD010 Parade Waving Flag FDGB

Posted by Iljin on 19 March 2020

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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.

Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick. The waving flag containes the logo of the FDGB.
The Free German Trade Union Federation (German: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB), was the sole national trade union centre of the DDR which existed from 1946 and 1990. As a mass organisation of the DDR, nominally representing all workers in the country, the FDGB was a constituent member of the National Front. The leaders of the FDGB were also senior members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party.
Officially, membership in the FDGB was voluntary, but unofficially it was hardly possible to develop a career without joining. In 1986, 98% of all workers and employees were organized in the FDGB, which had 9.6 million members. This meant that it was nominally one of the world’s largest trade unions.

Various Soviet Russia VSR019 Cigarette Case Aurora

Posted by Iljin on 19 March 2020

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(R.24.20)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 10.5×6.5cm./4.1×2.5inch.
weight: 54gr./1.9oz.

Cigarette case with a image of the Aurora. Made of Aluminium. This ship 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).

The Aurora.

Various Soviet Russia VSR018 Triangle With Coat Of Arms

Posted by Iljin on 18 March 2020

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(R.17.20)

Price: 22.50 euro
Size: 9x7cm./3.5×2.7inch.
Weight: 24gr./0.8oz.

The triangle was on top of a banner holder but was also used on top of the stick at a small desk flag. Aluminum with red transparent enamel. Front and back are the same.

Various DDR VD009 Waving Flag Parade Young Pioneers

Posted by Iljin on 18 March 2020

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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.

Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick. The waving flag containes the logo of Young Pioneers and the text says:”be prepared”.
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.

Propaganda poster Young Pioneers.

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Young Pioneers uniform worn by boys and girls alike.

Various DDR VD007 Waving Flag Parade 1st. Of May Labour Day

Posted by Iljin on 13 March 2020

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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.

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.

1st. May parade

Labour Day parade

1st. of May parade

Various DDR VD006 Waving Flag Parades FDJ

Posted by Iljin on 11 March 2020

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Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.

Waving hand held paper flag wich was distributed amoung the population for waving at parades. made of paper and with plastic stick. The flag contains the logo of the FDJ.
The Free German Youth, also known as the FDJ (in German Freie Deutsche Jugend), is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly it was the official youth movement of the DDR and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The color blue was their primary colour.
The organization was meant for young people, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25. In 1981 it had 2.3 million members. After being a member of the Thalmann Pioneers, which was for schoolchildren ages 6 to 14, East German youths would usually join the FDJ. Those who did not join lost access to organized holidays, and found it difficult to be admitted to universities, pursue chosen careers etc. The majority of youths who refused to join did so for religious reasons.
While the movement was intended to promote Marxist–Leninist ideology among East Germany’s young people, it also arranged thousands of holidays for young people through its Jugendtourist agency, and ran discos and open air rock concerts.

Various Soviet Russia VSR016 Russian Torch

Posted by Iljin on 8 March 2020

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(R.36.20)

Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 47cm./18.5inch.
Weight: 400gr./14.1lb.

Russian torch. Wallpiece made from hardwood. There is a ring on the back to hang it. Beautiful and rare piece.

Various Soviet Russia VSR015 Star From Large Flagpole

Posted by Iljin on 8 March 2020

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(R.67.5.20)

Price: 80.00 euro
Size: 36cm./14,1inch.
Width star: 14cm./5.5inch.
Weight: 974gr./34.3oz.

Stainless steel star. Large and heavy vintage CCCP flagpole top. It is a hollow star, 2 sides welded together. Much harder than pouring from 1 piece. Seams are done invisibly. Made from stainless steel.

Various Soviet Russia VSR014 Star From Large Flagpole

Posted by Iljin on 7 March 2020

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(R.67.5.20)

Price: 80.00 euro
Size: 35cm./13.7inch.
Width star: 19.5cm./7.6inch.
Weight: 1.2kg./2.6lb.

Star of stainless steel from a very large flagpole. Large and heavy vintage CCCP flagpole top. It is a hollow star, welded together with 2 sides. Much harder than pouring from 1 piece. Seams are done invisibly, very good workmanship. Note that it is not aluminum but stainless steel.

Various North Korea All

Posted by Iljin on 5 March 2020

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Various North Korea VNK001 DVD Korea Resplendent With Time Honoured History

Posted by Iljin on 5 March 2020

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(4.20)

Price: 10.00 euro

Very rare DVD from North Korea. It shows and explains the evolution on earth. In the beginning there is hommage to the eternal leader Kim Il Sung.

Various Soviet Russia VSR013 Bakelite White Cookie Box 1952

Posted by Iljin on 4 March 2020

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(R.24.20)

Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 20.5×13.5cm./8.07×5.3inch.
Weight: 271gr./9.5oz.

White Bakelite cookie storage box CCCP 1952. Beautiful sturdy box made of rock hard plastic. Beautiful image of the lock at the Lenin Volga-Don shipping channel.
The Lenin Volga Don shipping channel is a channel that connects the Volga and the Don at their nearest points. Opened in 1952.