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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1409993, member: 39&quot;]Interesting topic. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here are two pieces from the GDR (East Germany 1949-90) dedicated to communist leaders who were killed (images from ddr-muenzen.de). The 20M coin was issued in 1971 and commemorates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg" rel="nofollow">Rosa Luxemburg</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" rel="nofollow">Karl Liebknecht</a>, two communists who were killed by a paramilitary group in the 1918/19 revolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other one, a 10M piece issued in 1986, commemorated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Thälmann" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Thälmann" rel="nofollow">Ernst Thälmann</a>, a leading politician of the Communist party in the Weimar Republic years. In 1944 he was killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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