Original Soviet Early Cold War Era Excellent Embroidered “Socialist DPO Competition” Socialist Award Banner Flag with Painted Portrait of Lenin on Reverse - 43 x 60” Japanese Helmets Year of Manufacture: 1883 -

Year of Manufacture: 1883 - converted 1897

with some chipping around the lower edge

in their combat uniforms standing in front of a Quonset hut

After a brief period of operations off the coast

it proved somewhat premature

Original Soviet Early Cold War Era Excellent Embroidered “Socialist DPO Competition” Socialist Award Banner Flag with Painted Portrait of Lenin on Reverse - 43 x 60” Japanese Helmets Year of Manufacture: 1883 -Original Item. Only One Available. Soviet Competition banners were awards given to individuals or teams for excelling in various fields, particularly in the Soviet Union's planned economy and industrial production. This is one such flag, with one sides bearing a beautiful embroidered Hammer & Sickle over the Earth with the bottom scroll reading PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! With all phrases embroidered. The same phrase is in fourteen different