Mao with Lin Biao – desk ornament
Mao found Lin Biao useful when he began the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao was key to getting the army behind Mao.
Stasi colonel uniform
Uniform of a colonel in the Stasi, the East German secret police force.
Porcelain bust of Lenin
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
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
Soviet KGB secret camera designed to be hidden inside an agent’s overcoat.
Chess set made in the Gulag
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
“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
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
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.
