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Original GDR Pin (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I found an original GDR Pin. At the bottom there is a protractor with two wheat thingies.

On the back is written:

SOZIALISTISCH ARBEITEN LERNEN UND LEBEN

which translates to:

learn and live to work socialist

I think its very pretty even though.

the back of an original GDR pin saying "sozialistisch arbeiteten lernen und leben"

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

I think a better translation would be "work, learn and live socialist"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

live, laugh love socialist

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

That makes a lot of sense but they forgot the ","

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

That might have been too small a character to emboss

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Makes a lot of sense

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Oh my gosh where did you find these?! I need to know, ive always wanted DDR memorabilia, they’re probably my favorite socialist experiment (that and I’m in Germany).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

A comrade gave me that one, but I found other pins before at a flea market. Another big help is to get organized.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I’m relatively recent in Germany, my German honestly sucks at the moment, but in a couple of years im hoping to study in Germany at university, so that’ll be a great time to do so. Problem is I’m in the West.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Do you need help getting organized? I know my way around west germany leftist orgs so we could switch to matrix

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean, ive talked to my local SDAJ chapter, I’m reading DKP lit ever so often, it’s just that my situation is um- unconventional. If matrix is the equivalent of dming me here, then yeah, could you do that? I don’t have matrix though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Flea markets in Berlin can have some good stuff.

I've also found Soviet memorabilia at Swiss second hand stores.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Holy shit that’s a really cool pin! The DDR was peak. Peak music, peak government, and now, peak party pins.

Ya learn more every day.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I also got an old medal of the FDJ (the youth group of the DDR). It was not an official thing but just something to hand out at tournaments. So its plastic plated with actual copper, which is soo cool. I might post that at some point.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

that's so fucking cool! love to see all the unique communist memorabilia

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Super cool!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Awesome find!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Wait this is actually so cool, man. Peak find.

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