Size: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 34gr./1.1oz.
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Commemorative medal made in the DDR. This is not the original box but somewhere in time somebody put it there. Normally it comes in a big more luxurious box. On the medal is the face of Clara Zetkin and date of birth and death.
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women’s rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League, which later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
She represented that party in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933. Her political career began after being introduced to Ossip Zetkin, whom she later married. Within a few months of attending and taking part in socialist meetings, Zetkin became entirely committed to the party, which offered a Marxist approach to the demand for women’s liberation.
In August 1932, despite having recently fallen gravely ill in Moscow, she returned to Berlin to preside over the opening of the newly elected Reichstag. She used her opening address to call for workers to unite in the struggle against fascism.
Soon after Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party took power in 1933 went Zetkin into exile to the Soviet Union. She died there, at Arkhangelskoye, near Moscow, in 1933, aged nearly 76.
Her ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, by the Moscow Kremlin Wall, near the Red Square. The funeral was attended by leading communists from all over Europe, including Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Krupskaya (Lenin’s widow).
