Vintage Soviet Union Red Flower World Peace MUP Friendship Pin Badge

It features a red flower and the world with the Russian text MUPY MUP, meaning PEACE TO THE WORLD !

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.