Political Nesting Dolls.
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Barack Hussein Obama II.
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The many faces of 44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize Awardee, Barack Obmaa. Partially painted, faces are decals. Excellent condition. Made in Moscow. 5 nest. 6" down to 1 3/4". Sorry, sold. [#PD-LKR9D] 1 only.
Political Leaders of the USSR and Russia.
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Leaders of Russia beginning with the recently retired Putin, his predecessors Yeltsin and Gorbachev, the totalitarian Stalin and founder of Soviet Communism, Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Putin's image is on the white, blue and red Russian flag. The names of the presidents, commissars and comrades are written in Russian. Partially painted, faces are silk screened. Excellent condition. Made in Moscow. 5 nest. 6 1/2" down to 1 1/2". [#PD-LKR1A]
Political Leaders of the USSR and Russia.
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Newly elected (since March 2008) third, and current, Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (who is also a British hard rock fan), his predecessor - the serious "emotion-collector" and judoist, Vladimir Putin, followed by the tipsy Boris Yelsin, the dapper Mikhail Gorbachev and the personality cult target, Leonid Brezhnev. Medvedev's image is on the white, blue and red Russian flag. The names of the Presidents and General Secretaries are written in Russian. Partially painted, faces are silk screened. Excellent condition. Made in Moscow. 5 nest. 6" down to 1 1/2". [#PD-LKR6A]

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Gorbachev with Lenin and Stalin.
Gorby decked out with sash with title "President" of the Communist Party, Stalin with pipe and bloody hatchet, and Lenin holds the first Soviet newspaper "Iskra". Moscow: Sergiev Posad, 1992. 3 nest, 4 3/4" to 2 1/2". [#PD-Gor-1] Uncommon. 1 only.
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Yeltsin. A rainbow of leaders: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Brezhnev, Khruschev, Stalin, Lenin and Nicholas II (!). Moscow: Sergiev Posad, 1998. 7 nest, 7 1/4" to 1 1/2". Sorry, sold.
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Leaders of the Free World.
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A world political nesting doll. Head doll is President George Bush the 1st, followed by Prime Minister Sir John Roy Major (Great Britain), Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Germany), President Francois Mitterrand (France), Prime Minister Martin Brian Mulroney (Canada), President Francesco Maurizio Cossiga (Italy), and Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (Japan). Painted in 1993. Fully painted, including flags. 7 nest. 8" down to 1". [#PD-PR] 1 only.
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Yeltsin Nesting Doll.
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This mid-1990s painted set starts with Boris Yeltsin displaying two flags: St. Andrew's Cross and the Russian Tri-Color. Gorbachev wears a brown suit with a green tie (quite sporty!), the three-decades long General Secretary Brezhnev in red with military medals, "Papa Joe" Stalin in green military fatigues and pipe clenched in his mouth, and Lenin somber in black. Hand made and painted in Moscow. 5 nest. 7 1/2" to 2". 1 only. [#PD-Y18]

Perestroika.
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Perestroika. A one-of-a-kind political doll painted during the early days of Perestroika (Rebuilding) and Glasnost (Openess). Fronts of each doll have portraits of Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Illyich Lenin. Beneath Yeltsin is a tri-colored map of Russia that signifies the change from Communism to Democracy. The fun begins when the dolls are flipped around. Yeltsin's doll shows a 1-ruble note going up in flames, surrounded by falling ashes, signifying the currency devaluation. Gorbachev's doll has a picture of a television, which everyone watched 24 hours a day during the early 1990s for political information. Brezhnev's doll has a bottle of Stoly (Stolichnaya Vodka), with the (Russian) slogan: "Everything for the good of the citizen", signifying the hundreds of vodka vendor stalls that sprang up in the streets overnight, Stalin has red barbed wire star for the gulag concentration camps and Lenin's doll has a red flag. All dolls are fully painted. Excellent condition. Signed by the artist. Rostov on the Don, 1992.
5 nest. 6 1/2" down to 1 1/2". 1 only. [#PD-Y12]
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