70 years - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 10 Pfennig

70th Great Socialist October Revolution On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues two multicolored special postage stamps. Special Stamps from October 27 to December 26, 1987 70th Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution The 70th anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution, together with the Soviet Union, other socialist fraternal states and millions of people across the globe, is an outstanding historic anniversary committed. The proletarian revolution in Russia, which began with the victorious armed uprising in Petrograd (now Leningrad) on 6 and 7 November 1917 (24 and 25 October, according to the calendar then in use in Russia) and the establishment of the political power of the workers and led peasants in the form of the Soviet state, in the GDR - and has always been considered by the German Marxist-Leninists - as a world turn, as the initiation of a new epoch of the history of humanity, as the beginning of the rise of the first socialist country to a first-rate world power , The goals that guided the Russian revolutionaries led by Lenin's party in the October Revolution-peace and freedom, justice and national independence, cultural advancement of the working people, friendship among peoples and others-also motivated generations of German workers and humanist forces other social strata in their work for social progress. True to these ideals, today the citizens of the GDR fulfill their duty to strengthen socialism and secure peace. The 10-pfennig value is dedicated to Petrograd, the capital of Russia at the time: the revolution started here. The 10-pfennig value shows in the foreground a portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (24 April 1870 to 21 January 1924), the founder of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the October Revolution. In the background on the left is the Smolny, the early 19th century building of an institute for daughters of the Russian nobility. From here Lenin led the armed insurrection, and here on November 7 and 8, 1917, the Second Soviet Congress of Soviets met. The Congress proclaimed the assumption of power by the Soviets of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies, the Decree on Peace and the Decree on the Land. He appointed the revolutionary government, the Council of People's Commissars, to which Lenin was elected chairman. On the Smolny blows the red flag, behind it are the emblems of the Soviet power, hammer and sickle and red star to see. In the background on the right is the cruiser "Aurora" (launching 1900, 6 839 t displacement, armament 8 x 15 cm guns, 24 x 7.5 cm guns, 3 torpedo tubes), whose radio station receives the news of the proletarian revolution and wore their call from peace to the world. A shot from the nosegun of the cruiser signaled on the evening of November 7th the storming of the Winter Palace, the seat of the bourgeois Provisional Government, the last base of counterrevolution.