Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard from the Soviet Union, 1982. The postcard says:”Glory To October!”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet postcard from 1981 to commemorate the October Revolution. The postcard says:”Glory To The Great October!”. The card shows an eternal flame. There are many eternal flames in Russia. For fallen soldiers in sereval wars.
Price: 350.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Very rare FDJ DDR carpet. In perfect condition. The carpet says:”FDJ Commitment”. And DDR-30. Probably 30 years. The FDJ was founded in 1946 and DDR in 1949 so this carpet is from 1976 or 1979. The 2 faces on the upper left are most likely Ernst Thalmann and Wilhelm Pieck.
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 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.
FDJ youth
FDJ with DDR flags in parade
FDJ flag
DDR and USSR flags in parade
FDJ carrying North Korean flags
Price: 2.00 euro
Minisheet from North Korea issued in 1995 containing fossils of North Korea. Stamped.
Price: 0.50 euro
A serie of 2 stamps about the Atlantic Olympic games 1996. the stamps are issued in 1995. Stamped.
Price: 1.50 euro
Minisheet North Korea, 1995, about the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996. Stamped.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 64x47cm./25.1×18.5inch.
Original handpainted North Korean propaganda poster. In perfect condition. You can smell the paint. Taken out of North Korea.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label Soviet Union from late 50’s, early 60’ss. It has got something to do with insurance.
Price: 0.25 euro
The label is from late 50’s, early 60’s. The text says:”Small toy big consequences”.
Price: 0.25 euro
A Czechoslovakian matchbox label from the 50/60’s. On the top it says:”Do you know him?”.
On the bottom it says:”Loudmouth and annoyer who doesn’t belong to our fields”.
Price: 450.00 euro
Size: 151x93cm./59.4×36.6inch.
Very rare DDR carpet with Ernst Thalmann on it. The carpet is in perfect condition. Totally original. Very well made.
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) (1917) and Battle of Arras (1917).
Ernst Thalmann at a rally
Ernst Thalmann monument in Berlin
Ernst Thalmann
Ernst Thalmann speeching.
In 1972 Fidel Castro gave one of Cuba’s 4000 island to the DDR naming it Ernst Thalmann Island.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Interkosmos space program. This pin is probably issued in 1980 when Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez travelled into orbit in the Interkosmos space program. As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38 he was the first Cuban citizen and the first person of African heritage in space. Together with Yuri Romanenko from the Soviet Union.
He has been honored by the Cuban Government for being the first Cuban, the first Caribbean, and the first Latin American to go into orbit. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order of Playa Giron. He also is a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Interkosmos was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union’s allies with manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east European nations of the Warsaw Pact and other socialist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In addition, pro Soviet nations such as India and Syria participated, and even France and Austria, despite them being capitalist nations.
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
Interkosmos logo
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Yuri Romanenko after their space flight
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Bahx ehibition. This is a permanent exhibition in Russia about the achievements of national economy established in 1935 as an agricultural exhibition.
Now the exhibition holds 2,375,000 square meters (bigger than Monaco) with subjects such as: engineering, space, atomic energy, education, radio electronics and culture and has around 11 million visitors each year. It contains more than 400 buildings.
Bahx exhibition centre.
Atomic energy building.
Entrance
Central pavillion.
Space pavillion.
Price: 5.00 euro
This is a medal for 5 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All KDA medals
KDA troopsin parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 0.50 euro
A Soviet Union portcard with an image of Lenin.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard, 1989, Soviet Union to celebrate the October Revolution. The text on the card says:”Happy October Holiday!”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard in honour of the October Revolution in 1917. Postcard is from 1987. The 70th. anniversary. Postcard says:”Glory October”. The hat from the little boy says:”Aurora”. The ship who fired the first shot in the Russian Revolution.
Price: 125.00 euro
Size: 14x13cm./5.1×5.5inch.
Gadaffi propaganda clock. Made in Russia. Rare outragious propaganda clock. If you have this in your house it will drop the jaw of everybody. Crazy. Clock has been tested and runs. In very good condition.
Gadaffi (1942-2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He was the leader of Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, and then as the “Brotherly Leader” of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. He was initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
When he was in the army he founded a revolutionary group which deposed the Western backed Senussi monarchy in a 1969 coup. He deported Libya’s Italian and Jewish minorities and ejected its Western military bases. He nationalized the oil industry and used the increasing state revenues for the military, fund foreign revolutionaries, and implement social programs for house building, healthcare and education projects.
In 1973, he outlined his Third International Theory that year, publishing these ideas in The Green Book.
He died in 2011 when Libya was in a civil war.
Gadaffi in better times
Gadaffi with Fidel Castro
Gadaffi’s green book
Gadaffi with Nelson Mandela
Price: 0.50 euro
Stamp from North Korea, 1995, stamped, in very good condition.
The General Association of Korean Residents, also known as Chongryon is one of two main organisations for long term Korean residents in Japan. It has close ties to North Korea. As there are no diplomatic relations between the two states, it has functioned as North Korea’s embassy in Japan.
However, the organization has run into severe financial trouble, with debts of over US$750 million, and has been ordered by court in 2012 to dispose of most of its assets, including its Tokyo headquarters.
The former headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
Price: 1.00 euro
Size: 6.2×7.8/2.4x3inch.
Minisheet from 1995 about the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. Stamped.
Price: 1.50 euro
3 stamps from North Korea with mushrooms. Stamped.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 64x47cm./25.1×18.5inch.
Original handpainted poster bought in North Korea and taken out. It’s the typical agressive North Korean propaganda.
The bottom of the poster says:”Doomsday. Forward towards the U.S.!”. A beautiful piece.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Czechoslovakia 1953. The text says:”with the competition we celebrate the anniversary of liberation”.
Price: 25.00 euro
Matchbox set. Compleet. It is 24 matchboxes and 1 big matchbox. Some of them still contains matches. The theme is about Russian folk art.
Price: 0,50 euro
2 matchbox labels from the Soviet Union, 1964.
Price: 175.00 euro
Size: 26.5x11cm./10.4×4.3inch.
Statue of lenin with his nephew Victor walking. Made of metal, heavy, and in very good condition. Viktor Ulyanov was the son of Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, who was one of the 2 brothers of Lenin. Viktor’s father died in 1943.
Victor was born in 1917 in the same year of the October Revolution. In his later life Viktor was trained as an aircraft engineer in the late 1930’s, and associated with an unidentified research and development agency in the defense industry. He went to work for the agency in World War II.
Because of his relationship to Lenin, Viktor Ulyanov retired with a ”personal pension of central government rank,” a honor normally reserved for high officials.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with a ship from the CCCP fleet. Top of the pin says:”CCCP Fleet”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with a ship from the CCCP fleet. Top of the pin says:”CCCP Fleet”. Underneath it says:”Missle Cruiser”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with a ship from the CCCP fleet. Top of the pin says:”CCCP Fleet”.
Price: 6,00 euro
This is a medal for 10 years of service in the Combat Group Of The Working Class. There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (one stripe ribbon)
Silver: 10 years of service (two stripe ribbon)
Gold: 15 years of service (three stripe ribbon)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold dot ribbon)
The Combat Group Of The Working Class was a paramilitairy organization from 1953-1989 known as KDA (kampfgruppen Der Arbeiterklasse), to be deployed locally to fight civil unrest or invasion. In it’s peak it contained 211.000 people in 1980.
All medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and vehicles
The KDA flag
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard in honour of the October Revolution in 1917. Postcard is from 1987. The 70th. anniversary.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard in honour of the October Revolution in 1917. Postcard is from 1988. The postcard says:”Glory October!”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Postcard in honour of the October Revolution in 1917. Postcard is from 1964. The postcard says:”Glory October!”.
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 13.5x7cm./5.3×2.7inch.
Wall piece from Hungary. It says:”25 years in service of the country”. Bronze. 1950-1975. In very good condition.
Price: 0.75 euro
Minisheet in perfect condition. Stamped.
Kim Il Sung (born 1912) was leader of North Korea from 1948 until 1994 when he died. He outlived Stalin by 4 decades, Mao Zedong with 2, and stayed in power long enough to outrun 6 South Korean presidents, 9 USA presidents and 21 Japanese prime ministers. After his death his son Kim Jong Il became the leader of North Korea.
The North Korean goverment to this day refers Kim Il Sung as the Supreme Leader and the Eternal President.
Price: 0.75 euro
Minisheet in perfect condition. Stamped.
Kim Il Sung (born 1912) was leader of North Korea from 1948 until 1994 when he died. He outlived Stalin by 4 decades, Mao Zedong with 2, and stayed in power long enough to outrun 6 South Korean presidents, 9 USA presidents and 21 Japanese prime ministers. After his death his son Kim Jong Il became the leader of North Korea.
The North Korean goverment to this day refers Kim Il Sung as the Supreme Leader and the Eternal President.
Price: 0.75 euro
Minisheet in perfect condition. On the left we see Kim Il Sung with Ho Chi Minh and on the right with Che Cheveura.
Kim Il Sung (born 1912) was leader of North Korea from 1948 until 1994 when he died. He outlived Stalin by 4 decades, Mao Zedong with 2, and stayed in power long enough to outrun 6 South Korean presidents, 9 USA presidents and 21 Japanese prime ministers. After his death his son Kim Jong Il became the leader of North Korea.
The North Korean goverment to this day refers Kim Il Sung as the Supreme Leader and the Eternal President.
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 82x58cm./32.2×22.8inch.
Propaganda poster from Hungary from 1970. The text on the poster says:” Civilian protection, the most important responsibility is human life and goods. Get ready for protection”. The poster was made by Pal Gyorgy.
Pal Gyorgy’s (1906-1986) first posters appeared in 1927. From that time on, he designed numerous commercial posters. After 1945 he became a frequently commissioned poster artist, and he designed several propaganda posters during the 1950’s. He designed posters for the election campaigns of the ruling communist party, Népfront (People’s Front), which was the only political party at the time.
In the 1950’s his designs followed the strict socialist realist manner. He used the established visual elements: smiling workers, cheering crowds and symbols of the new regime: red star and flag, the new coat of arms of Hungary, sickle and hammer. The target audience of his posters was the workers and the peasantry: they depict everyday people in simple settings, with shrill colors.
Price: 0.25 euro
A matchbox label from Soviet Union, 1962.
Price: 0.25 euro
A matchbox label from 1962, Soviet Union.
Price: 0.25 euro
A matchbox label from Soviet Union, 1965.
Price: 150.00 euro
Size: 25.5×18.5cm./10.4×7.2inch.
Statue of Lenin sitting on a log writing a book. With signature. Made from metal and heavy. It very well could be that he is writing his theoretical works wich became later known as Lenism. It is Lenin’s interpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx.
The statue is in very good condition.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with a ship from the CCCP fleet. Top of the pin says:”CCCP Fleet”. Underneath it says:”Medium Trawler”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with a ship from the CCCP fleet.
