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Vintage Soviet Union Peace Friendship to All Races of the World Pin Badge
Vintage Soviet Union Peace Friendship to All Races of the World Pin Badge
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- A pretty, silver coloured metal pin badge. The badge face is 2.7cm wide and has a safety clasp style fastener to the rear. Featuring the words 'Peace and Friendship' in the Russian language and three different skin toned faces over a blue flag, which was widely used for peace themes (like the UN today).
- The Soviets were 10 years behind the USA with nuclear weapon development and actively promoted any organisations that preached peace and equality.
- The World Peace Council (WPC) was set up by the Soviet Communist Party in 1948–50 to promote Soviet foreign policy and to campaign against nuclear weapons at a time when only the USA had them. The WPC and its members took the line that the world was divided between the peace-loving Soviet Union and the warmongering United States. From the 1950s until the late 1980s the Soviet Union used numerous organizations associated with the WPC to spread its view of peace.
