Mao with Lin Biao – desk ornament
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Mao found Lin Biao useful when he began the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao was key to getting the army behind Mao.
Stasi colonel uniform
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Uniform of a colonel in the Stasi, the East German secret police force.
Porcelain bust of Lenin
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A Soviet biscuit porcelain bust of Lenin, made in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in the 1950s.
Soviet Union poster: prison for the heart and mind
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Anti-Christian Soviet propaganda poster depicting a nun who appears to be imprisoned by her religion while, outside, there is a sunlit, golden world.
Secret button camera
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Soviet KGB secret camera designed to be hidden inside an agent’s overcoat.
Chess set made in the Gulag
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Chess set made in the Gulag by a prisoner in north-east Siberia. On the box are the words, “Play well and dream of freedom, Magadan, 1945.”
…to march towards communism! – Soviet poster
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“So to fulfill the targets – to march towards communism!”. Soviet poster. Factories and farms were given plans.
French Socialist Party poster arguing that Stalin was in many ways like Mussolini and Hitler
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Large French Socialist Party poster arguing that Stalin was in many ways like Mussolini and Hitler, acquired June 2019.
A full-length poster of Lenin
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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
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A small bronze bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka and the OGPU, secret police under Lenin and Stalin.