A full-length poster of Lenin

A full-length poster of Lenin which is slightly bigger than life-size. 150,000 copies of the poster were printed and widely spread around the Soviet Union.
A bronze bust of the head of the secret police under Lenin and Stalin

A small bronze bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka and the OGPU, secret police under Lenin and Stalin.
‘Carpati’ 7.65mm calibre pistol as used by the Romanian secret police

The 7.65mm calibre Md.74 ‘Carpati’ pistol was standard issue for the Securitate, the Romanian secret police.
Original sign from Magadan Gulag camp

An original sign from the prison area in the port of Magadan, north east Siberia. Prisoners sent to the Kolyma Gulag camps mostly arrived through here.
Soviet Union poster of a collectivised farm

The poster shows a large man in red who symbolises the Communist Party government. Literal translation: “Take out the fertiliser without delay.”
Chinese poster of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao

Chinese poster of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. The text has been translated as “Long live invincible Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought”.
Identity card of a Gulag staff member

Identity card of a Gulag staff member: Front cover: “USSR Proletariats of the World Unite Gulag”.
Chinese poster during the cult of Chairman Mao Zedong

Chinese poster during the cult of Chairman Mao Zedong. It has been translated as: “He who opposes Chairman Mao will have his dog head smashed”.
Trabant

A Trabant, the East German car made from 1957 to 1990. It had a two-stroke engine and no fuel gauge. It took 21 seconds to reach 62mph.
Figure of a “struggle session”

Figurine of a Red Guard with his foot on the back of a man in a “denunciation meeting”. Bourgeois families, former supporters of the Kuomintang and regime critics were subjected to such sessions.