Featured Ad for Soviet Life Magazine - cross category

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Bev aka thelmasstuff, Apr 11, 2020.

  1. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I have an ad for Soviet Life magazine sent from the publisher - no addressee. There must have been a letter inside. The only thing left is a flyer with a picture of a sailboat on one side and blurbs for the magazine on the other. The stamp is a 1968 Mexico Olympic stamp in Russian.

    What category would be best? It's going to be listed for cheap so I don't want to pay for extra categories. What part of this is the most interesting to a buyer - the advertising, the stamp, the fact that it was sent from the Soviet Union? This is just another of those oddball things I keep finding.

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  2. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I should add that I also have 8 or 9 full size propaganda posters from the 80s or 90s which seem to promote life in the Soviet Union - or Russia.
     
  3. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    I think if you used the word "cosmonaut" in there somewhere, it might spark a few clicks ...
     
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  4. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    [​IMG]
    sorry, I know...
     
  5. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    As you know, I'm not a seller so take this with a grain of salt... but I think selling them all together would be best. As for category, I would say Collectibles>Paper>Ephemera or Collectibles>Advertising>Merchandise and Memorabilia would be appropriate. I'm sure that there are others!
     
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  6. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:
     
  7. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    I personally think these possibly a good read; it allows a glimpse back into the cold war, which goes forgotten.
    there were all kinds of magazines spread in Western Europe by both sides; the CIA ones were directly spread under the false flag of working organisations/trade unions and sometimes directly out of the offices of the US dept. at the International Labour Organization in Geneva - and of course by Radio Free Europe, a stronghold of old Germans with sometimes doubtful past.
    they recently showed Colin Powell in a report about segregation talking about his time in Germany and how the colored soldiers were wondering about them watching over all these "ex"-Nazis on one hand and when coming home they were suppressed once again; a point that was used against the US by Russia...
    which reminds me of Josephine Baker that wore a Free French uniform when speaking at the March on Washington in 1963...
     
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