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Hello everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR! My name is Natalia and I live in Ukraine. I have been a collector for a dozen years now. I love socialist realism period in the Soviet Union when a lot of interesting propaganda items were created. I especially love porcelain but I also collect other socialist realism items. My collection is pretty large, so recently, I started selling. Hope I can be of help to others and find some potential buyers.

 

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Hi and WELCOME, Natalia!! Anyone with a significant collection I'm pretty sure will be of great help to others!!! This is a great site!!

 

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Hello & Welcome......

There is a SELL forum for you to use should you wish to interest any potential buyers.

 

Hi, Natalia.

 

Welcome Natalie! I can't say I know much about Soviet Realist propaganda art, but most of us would be willing to learn something.

 

It occurs to me that I do have some older posters put away.
I also have quite a few Perestroika ones from when the Russian Navy visited San Diego as I was there at the end of the event and they told me to take anything I wanted.

 

Yes, posters were very popular during the Soviet times. They accompanied a person during his lifetime starting from maternity house and ending cemetery.
For example, like this: "You were born under the happy star". That's how the Communist party convinced people they had to feel happy to be born in USSR

 

This is another poster. In the Soviet Union they published the "CROCODILE" magazine. There were a lot of political satire posters in it. This one, "The Face of Colonialism", was created in 1960s

 

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I told you I have a large collection of Soviet porcelain. Hope you will like this piece and the story behind it. This is a figurine of Stalin, Soviet dictator, who had millions of people sent to GULAG and/or murdered with girl. The girl is real. Her name was Helya. In 1936 she greeted Stalin with flowers. This was captured with different photos and presented as "thank you,Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood". Soon her parents were executed for "anti-Soviet activity". A few years later she was found dead as if because of heart attack. There are a lot of misterious facts in this story. I might tell you later. But the photos were widely used in the Soviet propaganda. Based on them the figurine was made. But I assume, all copies were destroyed later (or never put into production) as I only saw it once. So, it is unique........