70 years - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 20 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 20-pfennig value symbolizes Moscow, today's capital of the Soviet Union. The 20-pfennig value shows towers of the Moscow Kremlin with the red stars of the Soviet power. In Moscow the revolution prevailed on November 16 (3) 1917, and there, in March 1918, the Soviet government moved its headquarters to the Moscow Kremlin (12th century complex, 1487 walled).