street finds: colourful nothings
The badge, found in front of my parents' block-of-flats' entrance around Orthodox Easter, comes from 1975, a year before I was born. It states leader in the competition, and with both Romanian and Russian flags on it, one can safely guess that it's communist. What kind of competition? Why, everything was a competition in those times, from the size of your crop to the number of medals one got, from how many innocent people one turned into the hands of Securitatea (intelligence service) to how many chestnuts a kid was able to collect in the autumn.
The other nothings seem to carry less history about them, and are rather obvious, so enjoy.
Labels: grrl stuff, romania
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Hm. That's by no means a Soviet flag, madame. That's the Romanian Communist Party flag, for sure, which kind of narrows the question down.
Good point, you're definitely right, it's not a Soviet flag this time. It doesn't narrow the question down for me, but I'm more than happy to hear why you think that should be the case :)
*chuckles*
Heh, should I've said the political context of the time, then?
Perhaps :) I still think 1975 is the important bit there, rather than the flags.
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