Price: 102.00 euro
Size: 38.5×28.5cm./15.1×11.2inch.
Weight: 3635gr./128.2oz.
Big shield from a Soviet train/locomotive. Made from aluminium and heavy. Beautiful wallpiece.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about Russia’s first steamship built in 1815.
On the top the pin says:”First Steamship” on the bottom it says:”Elizaveta”.
Charles Baird (1766-1843) was a Scottish engineer who played an important part in the industrial and business life of 19th-century St. Petersburg. His company specialised in steam driven machinery and was responsible for Russia’s first steamboat.
The Baird Works were responsible for the Elizaveta, Russia’s first steamship, launched in 1815, and this early start gave them a ten year monopoly on steamship routes from St. Petersburg, including the Elizaveta’s run to Kronstadt. They had their own wharves, and the St. Petersburg Times has said Baird helped “create a great industrial kingdom on the Neva River that is known today as Admiralty Shipyard (Admiralteiskiye Verfi), the shipbuilding company. Baird’s supplied the ironwork for several bridges, including the first cast iron arch bridge in Russia. The company also worked with the architect Auguste de Montferrand on the Alexander Column and Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, and were responsible for technical aspects of the cathedral dome design.
Engineer Charles Baird
Russia’s first steamship: The Elizaveta
Price: 114.00 euro
Size: 37.5x24cm./14.7×9.4inch.
Weight: 1485gr./52.3oz.
Big shield from a Soviet train/locomotive. Made from aluminium and heavy. Beautiful wallpiece.
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
Bronze medal of the DDR for excellent service by the Ministry Of Interiour.The front of the medal says:”For excellent service” The back of the medal has got the Coat of Arms of the DDR surrounded with laurel. This medal came in 3 types; bronze, silver and gold.
The bronze, silver and gold edition.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×6.5cm./7.2×2.5inch
Weight: 146gr./5.1oz.
Russian ship with hammer and sickle. Could be a (nuclear) ice breaker. The hammer and sickel can be seen on the chimney. The ship sits on a sea blue piece of plexiglass which is on a wooden base finished with a brass strip and is on 4 brass legs.
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 28cm./4.3inch.
Pin set box issued for the anniversary of 25 years of NVA, National People’s Army.
The NVA started in 1956 so the pin box is from 1981.
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
Price: 17.00 euro
Size: 16×9.8cm./6.2×3.9inch.
Weight: 146gr./5.1oz.
Soviet Union desktop made from pexiglass. Showing is a scene from the October Revolution 1917. Combat cruiser Aurora is firing the first shot at the Winterpalace in St. Petersburg signalling the start of the revolution.
Price: 1.50 euro
The top of the pin says: “Pushkin” wich is a city full of monuments and palaces near St. Petersburg and is a major toerist attraction.
The bottom of the pins says:”Znamenie Church”. Full name of the church is the churche of St. John of Mattery Znamenie. The church located on Palace Street, in the city center, near the Catherine Palace. The temple is the oldest building of the Tsarskoye Selo palace and park ensemble, the first stone building of Tsarskoye Selo.
Church of St. John of Mattery Znamenie.
Price: 8.00 euro
Size: 14.5x7cm./5.7×2.7inch.
Weight: 178gr./5.9oz.
Lena Siberia pen holder 3d with golden text.
Russian pen holder with 3D image of thick transparent acrylic with water blue back on oval black base with gold text. The Lena is a river in Siberia. It is approximately 4400 km long and thus one of the longest rivers on earth. The river rises west of Lake Baikal and flows mainly north to the Laptev Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean.
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is the gold medal for 20 years of service in the national’s people’s army of the DDR. They started with this type of medal in 1956 and stopped in 1990.
Faithful Service Medals with a similar design were issued by Border Guards (Grenztruppen) and Civil Defense (Zivilverteidigung).
There were 4 different medals for this purpose;
Bronze: 5 years of service (no stripe)
Silver: 10 years of service (white stripe)
Gold: 15 years of service (yellow stripe)
Gold: 20 years of service (gold stripe and Roman numerals XX).
All medals of People Army Service.
(R.19.20)
Price: 23.00 euro
Size: 9×13 cm./3.5×5.1 inch.
Weight: 57gr./1.9oz.
Transparant red plexiglass.
Beautiful red transparant Lenin Desktop. Made of plexiglass. This is just a joy to look at.
These desktops were made with a black, white ot grey base.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924) was a communist, revolutionair and first leader of the Sovjet Union.
Under his administration Russia and the wider Sovjet Union became an one party communist state. He used the political ideas of Karl Marx, known as Marxism, as a blueprint for his political theories known as Leninism.
He choose the name Lenin after his opponent Georgi Plechanov who used the alias Volgin, named after the river Volga.
Lenin choose the river Lena for his alias because both rivers flow opposite and the river Lena was bigger then the Volga. In fact, it is one of the longest river in the world.
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
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Price: 54.00 euro
Size: 29x19cm./11.4×7.4inch.
Weight: 534gr./18.8oz.
The Aurora is half in diameter and lies under a dome. There is a shield with text on the wooden base plate. Made from plastic, organic glass and wood.
The Aurora is a 1900 Russian cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. The Aurora survived the Battle of Tsushima and was interned under US protection in the Philippines, and eventually returned to the Baltic Fleet. One of the first incidents of the October Revolution in Russia took place on the cruiser Aurora, which reportedly fired the first shot, signalling the beginning of the attack on the Winter Palace.
The Aurora.
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 93gr./3.2oz.
Pages: 453 pages
Little red book with quotations of Mao in Chinese.
Often the red books came in small editions so the Chinese people could easily carry it in a pocket to take it with them. So The Red Book was often called The Little Red Book.
The first edition of The Red Book appeared in 1964. In the book there are quotations of Mao Zedong. There were put together by Lin Biao. Lin Biao was a general under Mao’s rule and one of his most trusted friends.
During The Cultural Revolution they printed about 5-6 billion copies of this book. Making it the worlds second most printed book, the Bible being first. In The Cultural Revolution everybody in China was obligated to have and study The Little Red Book.
In 1966 they distributed the Red Book internationally in different languages.
Price: 37.50 euro
Size: 14cm./5.5inch.
Weight: 370gr./13.07inch.
Heavy vintage star made of stainless steel. On the back you can still see the places where the pins used to be attached to a monument or something.
Price: 7.00 euro
Size: 12.5x6cm./4.9×2.3inch.
Weight: 66gr./2.3oz.
This is a medal for 15 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 armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 14.50 euro
Size: 11cm./4.3inch.
Weight: 233gr./8.2oz.
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR) was the official name of Estonia from 1940 to 1990, when it formed a Union republic of the Soviet Union. The back says;
“Endure, heroic people of Kalevs. Stand like a rock for our homeland!”.
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.
Helper Volkspolizei in action.
Price: 4.50 euro
Size: 4.4cm./1.7inch.
Weight: 17gr./0.5oz.
Plaque Rostral column marine Leningrad. Aluminum with 3D effect.
A rostral column is a victory column, originating in ancient Greece and Rome, where they were built to commemorate a naval military victory.
The back of the medal says:”Rostral columns and the central building, naval museum, former exchange, architect(name) Leningrad“.
Rostral columns in St. Petersburg
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 17.5×10.5cm./6.8×4.1inch.
Pages: 41
Year: 1985
Book from Cuba in English language. It is an interview Fidel gave to the Mexican Daily Excelsior in 1985.
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 10.5x8cm./4.1×3.1inch.
Weight: 267gr./9.4oz.
Eternal calendar Image Petrograd, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg. Complete with metal monthly cards and working well. Often corrosion or incomplete, but it is in very good condition. On both sides 2 different tokens, by rotating it repeatedly the date changes, black knob for the days and cards for the months.
Price: 3.00 euro
Weight: 37gr./1.3oz.
The collective of socialist work, was a collective award in the DDR. They started with this award in 1960 and recognized high production successes, special successes in socialist community work and above all in the socialist competition.
The front of the medal says:”The Collective Of Socialistic Work” and the back of the medal says:”Learn And Live Socialistic Work”.
It was about fulfilling political, cultural and professional demands as well as adhering to socialist morals and ethics.
By 1989 4.8 million people had recieved the award.
Price: 66.00 euro
Size: 70cm./27.5inch.
Weight: 6900gr./243.3oz.
General Colonel of the Air Force honorary gift. Very large ornament made of copper, bakelite and plexiglass. The ornament says:”To the hero of the Soviet Union, General Colonel of the Air Force Morozov Ivan Mikhaelovitsch of the soldier aviators of Приво (PriVO = military unit) June 10, 1978 Kuybysjev (former name of the current city of Samara)”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Cold war pennant from the DDR, national people’s army. The front of the pennant says:”For the protection that workers and farmers do”.
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
Price: 54.00 euro
Size: 18×12.8cm./7.08×5.1inch.
Weight: 135gr./4.7oz.
Rare old Lenin shield. As a child. Once it was on a wall, there is a little hole at the top. Beneath the picture of Lenin is his real name: Vladimir Ulyanov.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18×10.5cm./7.08×4.1inch.
Pages: 19
Year: 1984
Book from Cuba containing a speech from Fidel Castro in 1984. This edition was made in France. The titel says:”Cuba cannot export revolution, nor can the united states prevent it”.
Price: 67.60 euro
Size: 43x37cm./16.9×15.5inch.
Weight: 820gr./28.9oz.
Big aluminium Lenin head. In good condition.
Price: 12.50 euro.
Hungarian original medal for 15 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The text on the medal says:”For Armed Serive In The Homeland”.
Price: 132.00 euro
Size: 22×14.5cm./8.6×5.7inch.
Weight: 1650gr./58.2oz.
Old Soviet flagpole. Unique item, made from cast iron and heavy. Probably still got it’s original paint on it.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 25x16cm./9.8×6.2inch.
Pennant with the flag of the DDR.
The DDR was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist workers and peasants’ state.
After WWII the Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the DDR.
Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the DDR on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the “death strip”) that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Price: 26.50 euro
Size: 25×24.5cm./9.8×9.6inch.
Weight: 125gr./4.4oz.
Copper shield to commemorate the October Revoluion in 1917. On the shield there is the Aurora ship, wich fired the first shot signaling the start of the revolution. On the shield are the hammer and sickle and the text:”October Revolution”.
There are 5 holes in the shield wich was used to hang it on a wall.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18×10.5cm./7.08×4.1inch.
Pages: 19
Year: 1984
Book from Cuba containing a speech from Fidel Castro in 1984.
Price: 26.50 euro
Size: 27×26.5cm./10.6×10.4inch.
Weight: 170gr./5.9inch.
Copper shield of Lenin. The image on the shield is a part of the Lenin Order/Medal.
The Lenin Order is one of the highest decorations of the CCCP. The order was established by the Central Executive Committee in 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded to: Civilians for outstanding services rendered to the State, Members of the armed forces, those who promoted friendship and cooperation between peoples and in strengthening peace, Those with meritorious services to the Soviet state and society.
Those who were awarded the titles “Hero of the Soviet Union” and “Hero of Socialist Labour” were also given the order as part of the award. It was also bestowed on cities, companies, factories, regions, military units and ships. Various educational institutions and military units who received the order applied the full name of the order into their official titles.
The original Lenin Order.
Price: 12.50 euro
Hungarian original medal for 20 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The medal says:”20 years of home in the armed service”.
Price: 34.00 euro
Size: 11x10cm./4.3×3.9inch.
Weight: 630gr./22.2oz.
Lenin hacked into a piece of granite. Has got some black stains on it.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 23×16.5cm./9.05×6.4inch.
DDR pennant from the border patrol. The front of the pennant says:”Border Patrol” and the back says:”Border troops of the DDR section Ernst Grube, in mermory of”. DDR border regiment 10 was named after Ernst Grube.
Ernst Grube (1890-1945 in Bergen-Belsen) was a German politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
In 1933 Ernst Grube got arrested and spend more than six years in various concentration camps: until May 1939 he was imprisoned in Sonnenburg, Lichtenburg and Buchenwald. After his release, he worked as a carpenter in Warsaw. In 1941 he went back to Berlin and join a resistance group. In 1942 he was imprisoned for several months. In 1944, he was arrested again and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and transported to Bergen-Belsen in early April 1945, where he died of typhus a few days before the end of the war.
Ernst Grube bust
Price: 18.00 euro
Size: 28x21cm./11.02×8.2inch.
Weight: 198gr./6.09oz.
High Voltage warning sign. The sign says:”High Voltage. Dangerous For Your Life!”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 17.5×11.5cm./6.8×4.5inch.
Pages: 59
Year: 1982
Cuban book with Fidel Casto’s speech at the 10th. world trade unions congress in 1982 in english language.
Price: 15.00 euro.
Size: 28x21cm./11.02×8.2inch.
Weight: 590gr./20.08oz.
High Voltage warning sign. The sign says:”Wait. Voltage”.
Price: 12.50 euro
The medal says:”For loyal service of the nation and homeland”
A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard. So a substitute was needed.
Millions of working class people trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and even artillery to support the regular army in case of a war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who took control over Hungary in 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
Although he remained loyal to the Soviet Union he is known for being one of the more moderate communist leader.
Price: 15.00 euro.
Size: 28x21cm./11.02×8.2inch.
Weight: 590gr./20.08oz.
High Voltage warning sign. The sign says:”Do not touch, will kill!”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 23.5×16.5cm./9.2×6.4inch.
Nice made DDR pennant. The pennant says:”For active work and performance
in socialist competition”.
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 30x22cm./11.8×8.6inch.
Weigt: 535gr./18.8oz.
High voltage warning sign. The sign says:”High Voltage, Danger For Your Life!”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Pages: 36
Year: 1991
Book from Cuba, written by Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. The titel says:”The people, true protagonist of this epic victory of Cuban internationalism”.
Fidel and Raul Castro.
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 30x22cm./11.8×8.6inch.
Weigt: 535gr./18.8oz.
High voltage warning sign. The sign says:”High Voltage. Dangerous For Your Life!”.
Price: 12.50 euro.
Hungarian original medal for service to the fatherland. The text on the medal says:”For Service Of The Homeland”. These type of medals came in a Gold, Silver and bronze grade. This is the bronze grade.
Still in it’s original box.
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 30x22cm./11.8×8.6inch.
Weigt: 535gr./18.8oz.
High voltage warning sign. The sign says:”Under Voltage Dangerous For Working”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 26x18cm./10.2×7.08inch.
Pennant from the German-Soviet Friendship Society.
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: 29.00 euro
Size: 30x22cm./11.8×8.6inch.
Weigt: 535gr./18.8oz.
High voltage warning sign. The sign says:”Do Not Touch. Will Kill!”.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Pages: 58
Year: 1991
Book from Cuba, Fidel Castro about the first Ibero-American Summit in 1991. The titel of the book says:”Towards A Great Common Homeland. First Ibero-American Summit. Speech And Message From Fidel Castro”.
The Ibero American Summit is a yearly meeting of the heads of government and state of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations of Europe and the Americas, as members of the Organization of Ibero-American States.
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.
Price: 12.50 euro
Information:
Hungarian original medal for 10 years of militairy service. Still in it’s original box and with the ribbon bar. The medal says:”10 years of home in the armed service”.
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.
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.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Pages: 66
Year: 1991
Cuban book from 1991 with selected articles from Fidel Castro about Latin-American integration.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
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.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 7.5cm./2.8inch.
Weight: 47gr./1.6oz.
Workers Guardian medal.
A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy in order for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard.
Millions of working class people (labours) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and artillery to support the regular army in case of war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who ruled over Hungary from 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
Janos Kadar
Price: 13.50 euro each.
Weight: 107gr./3.7oz.
Tea glass holder with “Mother Russia” reaching out to a satellite. In the background is the Kremlin. The holders are silver plated and the silver has darkened over the years, so holders are in an unpolished condition but can be rubbed and polished to a high gloss.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 30×26.5cm./11.8×10.4inch.
Bannerflag from the DDR. On the side there is a spare for putting a stick in it. The flag is made of cotton.
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.
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Pages: 13
Year: 1991
Cuban book about militairy Operation Carlota in Angola. The text on the cover says:”The carlota operation has concluded victory of Cuban internationalism”.
In November 1975 Cuba launched a large -scale military intervention in support of the leftist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against United States-backed interventions by South Africa and Zaire in support of two right-wing independence movements competing for power in the country, the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). By the end of 1975, the Cuban military in Angola numbered more than 25,000 troops. Following the withdrawal of Zaire and South Africa, Cuban forces remained in Angola to support the MPLA government against UNITA in the continuing Angolan Civil War. Cuban military engagement in Angola ended in 1991, while the Angolan civil war continued until 2002.
Carlota was a woman slave rebel leader in Cuba in 1843.
Angola soldier with Castro poster
Cuban soldiers in Angola
Massive rally with enormous pictures of Castro and Angola leader.
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.
Price: 10.00
Size: 8×8 cm. / 3×3 inch.
The medal was worn by a Munkasor or Workers Guardian. A Workers Guardian was a worker who was trained much like the miliairy in order for the civil defense of Hungary. The militairy budget of Hungary was drastically reduced in order to give the people a better living standard.
Millions of working class people (labours) trained with rifles, mortars, machine guns and artillery to support the regular army in case of war. All this was originated by Janos Kadar who was the communist leader of Hungary who ruled over Hungary from 1956 untill his retirement in 1988. He ruled for 32 years and died in 1989.
janos Kadar.
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.
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.
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.
Price: 12.50 euro
Pages: 26
Year: 1989
Cuba book made in 1989 and written by Fidel Castro. The titel says:”We will know how to fulfill the role assigned to us by history“.
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.
Price: 5.00 euro.
Medal still in it’s original box and with pin. In good condition.
The medal says:”Excellent worker”. The Kivalo Dolgozo medals where made for almost any profession in Hungary. So this medal comes in many variations. Great to collect them all.
This one is a universal variation made for industries not represented by their own medal. This medal was to be worn on holidays and the mini was made for everyday wear.
Price: 77.00 euro
Size: 26cm./10.2inch.
Weight: 800gr./28.2oz.
Eagles head being a flag pole top. Hand forged iron bird head made from 6 pieces of metal. Impressive piece in original condition.
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.
Young Pioneers propaganda poster.
Young Pioneers uniform worn by boys and girls alike.
Price: 78.00 euro
Size: 48x44cm./18.8×17.3inch.
Weight: 954gr./33.6oz.
Bronze/messing shield modelled to the Order of Labour Glory.
The Order of Labour Glory was a Soviet civilian award created in 1974 by the decision of the Praesidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Closely modelled on the Order of Glory, it was meant to be its civilian counterpart, awarded for exceptional labour achievements. In the same way as the Order of Glory, it was divided in three classes (the highest being the 1st class), with a person initially received the third degree, and subsequently promoted to higher degrees for further achievements. It also gave a certain number of material benefits to their owners, such as pension raises or free travel in city transports.
The original Order Of Labour Glory.
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 20x13cm./7.8×5.1inch.
Pages:
Book 1: 534 pages.
Book 2: 474 pages.
Book 3: 446 pages.
Book 4: 623 pages.
Realese date: 1952
The complete selected works of Mao Zedong the Russian edition. Very rare.
The Selected Works Of Mao Zedong, is a five volume collection of the written works of Mao Zedong ranging from the years 1926-1957. The collection was first published by the People’s Publishing House in 1951, and was later translated into English by the state-owned Foreign Languages Press. A fifth volume, which included the works of Chairman Mao from 1949-1957, was released during the leadership of Hua Guofeng, but subsequently withdrawn from circulation for its perceived ideological errors. During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the People’s Publishing House published 870 different editions of Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung (Volumes 1-4), with a total of 325 million paperbacks and 2.55 million hardcover copies of the Chinese editions created. The Selected Works were also translated into a 14 different foreign languages.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 40x30cm./15.7×11.8inch.
Original handpainted painting of the Apollo Lunar Module. From a private collection. Beautiful done. It is painted with ink and probably water paint to fill the colours in. It is painted on a smooth glossy paper where the edges are reinforced with a strip of paper. It is stuck at the corners in a sort of folder to protect them.
The Apollo Lunar Module was the lander spacecraft that was flown from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface during the U.S. Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space, and remains the only crewed vehicle to land anywhere beyond Earth.
The Apollo Lunar Module.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 5cm./1.9inch.
Medal from China.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 29x20cm./11.4×7.8inch.
Original handpainted painting of Sputnik III. From a private collection. Beautiful done. It is painted with ink and probably water paint to fill the colours in. It is painted on a smooth glossy paper where the edges are reinforced with a strip of paper. It is stuck at the corners in a sort of folder to protect them.
Sputnik 3 was a Soviet satellite launched in 1958. The scientific satellite carried a large array of instruments for geophysical research of the upper atmosphere and near space.
Sputnik III
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 20x12cm./7.8×4.7inch.
Waving flag for parades. Made from paper and with a plastic stick.
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.
DSF headquarters
DSF flag.
Price: 105.00 euro
Size: 52x48cm./20×18.8inch,
Weight: 657gr./23.1oz.
Coat of arms excellent student of the Ministry of the Interior law enforcement.
Brass shield with a red painted star and white ribbon. Everything in original condition. Shield has some creases, see photos. Suspect it comes from a government building.
Price: 25.00 euro
Size: 21×15.5cm./8.2×6.1inch.
Pages: 352
Year: 2001
Original book from North Korea in the German language. Published in 2001 and discribes the lifecyle of the eternal leader Kim Il Sung.
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.
Kim Il Sung on the left and on the right Kim Jong Il, his son.
Price: 9.00 euro
Size: 16.5cm./6.4inch
Weight: 25gr./0.8oz.
Copper shield of Lenin. The image on the shield is a part of the Lenin Order/Medal.
The Lenin Order is one of the highest decorations of the CCCP. The order was established by the Central Executive Committee in 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded to: Civilians for outstanding services rendered to the State, Members of the armed forces, those who promoted friendship and cooperation between peoples and in strengthening peace, Those with meritorious services to the Soviet state and society.
Those who were awarded the titles “Hero of the Soviet Union” and “Hero of Socialist Labour” were also given the order as part of the award. It was also bestowed on cities, companies, factories, regions, military units and ships. Various educational institutions and military units who received the order applied the full name of the order into their official titles.
The original Lenin Order.
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 armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 29.5x28cm./11.6×11.02inch.
Weight: 1623gr./3.5lb.
Big replica of the Kutozov Order. Made of solid aluminium.
The Order of Kutuzov is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established during World War II to reward senior Red Army officers. The Order of Kutuzov has three classes and was retained by the Russian Federation after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as one of the finest military officers and diplomats of Russia under the reign of three Romanov Tsars: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. His military career was closely associated with the rising period of Russia from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Kutuzov is considered to have been one of the best Russian generals.
He is most famous for triumph against France when Napoleon invaded Russia.
The original Kutuzov Order
Russian general Kutuzov.
Price: 55.00 euro
Size: 155x80cm./51×31.4inch.
Weight: 241gr./8.5oz.
Flag with Lenin. Lenin is stitched on both sides., flag is made from silk or cotton silk.
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.
Price: 57.00 euro
Size: 24.5cm./9.6inch.
Weight: 525gr./18.5oz.
Sculpture made from the gigantic statue “Motherland Calls”.
The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble “Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” in Volgograd, Russia, former Stalingrad.
It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 metres (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe and the tallest statue of a woman in the world. The construction of the monument was started in 1959 and completed in 1967. It was the tallest sculpture in the world at the time of creation. Restoration work on the main monument of the monument complex was done in 1972, when the sword was replaced by another entirely consisting of stainless steel. It is most likely that Vuchetich sculpted the figure from the discus thrower Nina Dumbadze, and the face from his wife Vera.
Motherland Calls in Volvograd
Construction workers working on the statue
Construction of Motherland Calls
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 13×9.5cm./5.1×3.7inch.
Unique red book in Hindi Language. Pretty rare. Made in 1972.
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.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 29x20cm./11.4×7.8inch.
Original handpainted painting of a Luna 1 spacecraft made in the 70’s. From a private collection. Beautiful done. It is painted with ink and probably water paint to fill the colours in. It is painted on a smooth glossy paper where the edges are reinforced with a strip of paper. It is stuck at the corners in a sort of folder to protect them.
Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth’s Moon, and the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. Intended as an impactor on the moon, Luna 1 was launched as part of the Soviet Luna programme in 1959, however due to an incorrectly timed upper stage burn during its launch, it missed the Moon, in the process becoming the first spacecraft to leave geocentric orbit.
Luna 1 then became the first human made object to reach heliocentric orbit.
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 medals of the KDA
KDA troops in parade
KDA troops and armoured vehicles.
Flag of the KDA
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 29x20cm./11.4×7.8inch.
Original handpainted painting of a lunokhod spacecraft made in the 70’s. From a private collection. Beautiful done. It is painted with ink and probably water paint to fill the colours in. It is painted on a smooth glossy paper where the edges are reinforced with a strip of paper. It is stuck at the corners in a sort of folder to protect them.
Lunokhod (Russian: “Moonwalker”) was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.
The 1969 Lunokhod 1A was destroyed during launch, the 1970 Lunokhod 1 and the 1973 Lunokhod 2 landed on the Moon. The successful missions were in operation concurrently with the Zond and Luna series of Moon flyby, orbiter and landing missions.The Lunokhods were primarily designed to support the Soviet manned Moon missions during the Moon race. After the successful Apollo manned moon landings they were used as remote-controlled robots for exploration of the lunar surface and return its pictures.
Not until the 1997 Mars Pathfinder was another remote-controlled vehicle put on an extraterrestrial body. In 2010, nearly forty years after the 1971 loss of signal from Lunokhod 1, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the Lunokhod tracks and final location, and researchers, using a telescopic pulsed-laser rangefinder, detected the robot’s retroreflector.
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 30x20cm./11.8×7.8inch
Original handpainted painting of the Soyuz spacecraft made in 1978. From a private collection. Beautiful done. It is painted with ink and probably water paint to fill the colours in. It is painted on a smooth glossy paper where the edges are reinforced with a strip of paper. It is stuck at the corners in a sort of folder to protect them.
Soyuz is a series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau in the 1960s that remains in service today, having made more than 140 flights. The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the Soviet crewed lunar programs. The Soyuz spacecraft is launched on a Soyuz rocket, the most reliable launch vehicle in the world to date.
All Soyuz spacecraft are launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz has served as the only means for Americans to make crewed space flights in the world since the retirement of the US Space Shuttle in 2011 and is heavily used in the International Space Station program.
A Soyuz spacecraft.
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 SED, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the governing Marxist–Leninist political party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country’s foundation in October 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989. The party was established in April 1946.
The GDR was a one-party state but other institutional popular front parties were permitted to exist in alliance with the SED, these parties being the Christian Democratic Union, the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Farmers’ Party, and the National Democratic Party. The SED made the teaching of Marxism-Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. In the 1980s, the SED rejected the liberalisation policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, which would lead to the GDR’s isolation from the restructuring USSR and the party’s downfall in the autumn of 1989.
SED party congress in 1986
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.
Price: 45.00 euro
Size: 27x11cm./10.6×4.3inch.
3 porcelain medal set in the orginal box from the DDR. In great condition.
Medal 1 is Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German thinker and philosopher. He created the workers movement. His most important work is Das Kapital and the Communist Manifest. Bassicly he was the inventor of communism. His work and thoughts are called Marxism. Lenin was a strong believer of Marxism when he was turning Russia into the first communist state after the October Revolution in 1917. Friedrich Engels was his lifetime friend and was supporting Karl financially and publiced many of Karl Marx writings after the death of Karl.
Medal 2 is Friedrich Engels (1820–1895). He was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in England.
Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx’s death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx’s notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which were later published as the “fourth volume” of Das Kapital. In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx’s ethnographic research.
Medal 3 Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks and they were led by Stalin. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Lenin.
