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20 years of Russians in Britain – Fall of Berlin Wall 2009

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1. Berlin Wall. Potsdamer Platz. 9 July 1983

2. Berlin Wall. Wolliner Strasse, German Democratic Republic, seen from Bernauer Strasse. 9 July 1983

3. Berlin Wall. Brandenburg Gate. 9 July 1983

4. Berlin Wall. View SW down Bernauer Strasse. 9 July 1983

5. Forty years of victory, propaganda display. Neglinnaya Street, Moscow 17 June 1985

6. Street propaganda, Lenin. Leningrad. Propaganda at junction of Maklina Prospect and Decabristov Street. 23 June 1985

7. Communist Party propaganda installation, at Baumanskaya Metro, Baumanskaya Street, Moscow. Behind it is the Church of the Epiphany, seat of the Russian Patriarch. 3 December 1983

8. Wall poster at Dobryninskaya Square, Leningrad. 18 June 1985

9. Pioneer Lenin Corner, Central Lenin Museum, Khalturin Street, Leningrad. 8 December 1983

10. Leningrad. Young Pioneers in Central Lenin Museum, Khalturin Street Leningrad 18 November 1982

11. Leningrad. Young Pioneers in Central Lenin Museum, Khalturin Street, Leningrad 18 November 1982

12. House of Books (Dom Knigi) at 28 Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad. The Marxism-Leninism counter. 6 December 1983

13. Record counter in Gostinyy Dvor on Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad. 12-inch LPs of speeches by Brezhnev and documentary albums on Communist history. 6 December 1983.

14. Bread Truck. Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad. 9 December 1983

15. Cigarettes in a kiosk. Turgenev Square, Sadovaya. Leningrad. 1983. Note in the centre the blue packet of Belomor Canal “White Sea Canal” (ВЕЛОМОРКАНАЛ) cigarettes. The White Sea canal was built in the 1930s using unpaid prison labour. the cigarettes commemorated this event throughout the Soviet period

16. Belomor Canal “White Sea Canal” (ВЕЛОМОРКАНАЛ) cigarettes. Front

17. Belomor Canal “White Sea Canal” (ВЕЛОМОРКАНАЛ) cigarettes. Back of packet

18. Music hall posters. Sadovaya. Leningrad 25 June 85

19. Posters on Ordynka Bolshaya Street, Leningrad. 18 June 1985

20. Record counter Moscow Dept Store, Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow. 17 June 1985

21. Cake shop at 40 Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad. 9 December 1983

22. Sweet shop 72 Nevsky Prospect. Leningrad. 8 December 1983

23. Bread, tea, sweets shop. 80 Nevsky Prospect. 8 December 1983

24. Woman selling garlic. Baumansky Market Moscow. Baumansky Street. 3 December 1983

25. Kvas seller. View down Maklina Prospect looking north from Pl. Turgenev Square, Leningrad. 23 June 1985

26. Metro station. Vosstaniya Square. Leningrad. 17 November 1982

27. Bread sleeping. Waiting room Yaroslavskii Railway Station Moscow 27 Nov 82

28. The railway station lobby at Gorky Leninsky. 2 December 1983

29. Selling bottled tomatoes on Kuznechnyy Alley, Leningrad. 4 December 1983

30. Schoolchildren Sverdlov Square, Moscow 28 11 1983

31. Schoolchildren Sverdlov Square, Moscow 28 11 1983

32. Kaganovich Subway Badge, 1935 (1st stage of construction). Silver, enamel. Awarded to senior engineers, administrators and Communist Party members who supervised construction of the initial stage of Moscow Metro

33. Shock Worker of Stalin Labour Campaign badge. Bronze. (УДАРНИКУ СТАЛИНСКОГО ПРИЗЫВА)

34. Order of the October Revolution. Established in 1967. Awarded 100,00 times. Gold, silver, gold plating and enamel. Designed by V Zaitsev. Awarded for revolutionary activity, for a significant contribution to the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power, gallantry displayed in combat against the enemies of the Soviet state, for the strengthening of peace between peoples.

35. Order of Labour Glory. Third class. Established 1974. Awarded to workers and foremen employed in industry, transport, construction and manufacturing, for selfless and efficient work, innovation, invention and ideas. Designed by Y Yegarov.

36. Lenin and Stalin. 30th Anniversary of Komsomol badge, 1949

37. Prize badge “Lenin Peak”. Lenin Peak (7134m) is in the Pamir range on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It was named Lenin Peak in 1928. This prize badge was instituted in 1957 on the initiative of Vladimir Iosifovich Razek and presented to mountaineers who reached the top of the peak. Razek presented it to more than 2,000 alpinists from all over the world.

38. Badge awarded for success in socialist competition in communications (МИНСВЯЗИ, МИНИТЕРСТВО СВЯЗИ)

39. Badge awarded for success in socialist competition in construction raw materials (МПСМ, МОСПРОМСТРОЙМАТЕРИАЛЫ

40. Aluminium lapel badge.

41. Aluminium lapel badge.

42. Aluminium lapel badge.

43. Aluminium lapel badge.

44. “Always prepared” Komsomol lapel badge.

45. Lenin lapel badge, depicting Lenin statue at the Finland Station in Leningrad

46. Lenin lapel badge. Depicting the Lenin statue on Moscow Prospect in Leningrad

47. Lenin lapel badge depicting Lenin statue in front of the Smolny Institute in Leningrad. The Smolny was the headquarters of the Bolsheviks during the October 1917 uprising.

48. Lenin lapel badge for Lenin’s centenary, 1970.

49. Lenin lapel badge

50. Lenin lapel badge

51. Aluminium lapel badges

52. Aluminium lapel badges

53. Aluminium lapel badges

54. Veteran. Leningrad. Moskovsky Prospect. 28 June 1985

55. Veteran. Leningrad. Petrodvorets. Leningrad. 25 June 1985

56. Grave in Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the Communist Plot. 7 December 1982

57. Grave in Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the Communist Plot. 7 December 1982

58. Grave in Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the Communist Plot. 7 December 1982

59. Jubilee medal. The second anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Bronze. Designed by D. K. Stapanov. Stamp prepared 1919. Issue commenced 1921. Shows Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Translation “Russian Socialist Federation Soviet Republic. Petersburg 1919”. This pre-dates the USSR, which was founded in 1924.

60. Jubilee medal. The second anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Translation: “Workers of the World Unite”.

61. Detail of the Jubilee medal. The 250th anniversary of Leningrad (1703-1953) Bronze. Designed by N. A. Sokolov

62. Detail of the Jubilee medal. The 250th anniversary of Leningrad (1703-1953)

63. Army belt buckle

64. Stalin medallion. Bronze

65. The USSR was established in 1924, seven years after the Great October Revolution. This silver Soviet medallion commemorates the fiftieth year of its foundation.

66. Poster noting the increase in Communist Party membership in Russia

67. Lenin Bust

68. Soviet stamps commemorating Lenin’s centenary

69. Soviet stamps commemorating Lenin’s centenary

70. Soviet Federation of Amateur Pilots. Small banner.

71. Banner awarded to the best team in the pioneers. ЛУШЕМУ ПИОНЕРСКОМУ ЗВЕНУ

72. Detail. Banner awarded to the best team in the pioneers

73. Flag. To be waved at Soviet holidays and demonstrations. С ПРАЗДНИКОМ

75. Matroshka doll.

76. Matroshka dolls.

77. Soviet 25-rouble banknote. 1961 with portrait of Lenin

78. Ceramic of a dancer (detail).

79. Ceramic. Made at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad. This statue depicts a scene from the poem by Agniya Barto, At The Border Post (На Заставе) (Published 1937 in Moscow and Leningrad by Detgiz) where a boy is rewarded with the gift of an alsation puppy for alerting border guards to a marauder

80. Anonymous painting of a raised bridge over the Neva during the white nights in Leningrad.

81. Detail of a Plate showing the Central Pavilion of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow

82. Souvenir in metal depicting Lenin’s library at his country house Gorky Leninsky.

83. Anonymous painting of a wooden church.

84. EP record of speeches by Lenin, recorded in 1919. Manufactured at the Aprelevsky factory

85. Front of a Beatles EP issued in Russia in 1982. Manufactured at the Aprelevsky factory. The label does not mention the name “Beatles”, but uses the term “Vocal-Instrumental ensemble” and “In the English language”. However, the songs are credited to J. Lennon and P. McCartney. The songs are: With a Little Help from My Friends, Penny Lane, When I’m 64, Lovely Rita

86. Back of a Beatles EP issued in Russia in 1982

87. Disc label, side one, of a Beatles EP issued in Russia in 1982

88. Kursk K-141 nuclear submarine disaster commemorated by graffiti in Venice, 2007. The Kursk was lost with all hands in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000.

89. Kursk K-141 nuclear submarine disaster commemorated by graffiti in Venice, 2007. The Kursk was lost with all hands in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000.

90. Dear Joe. Letters from Bill Smith to Joseph Stalin. 95 pages. London 1942. Publisher: Secker & Warburg (1942)

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