Hungary May Day in Hungary

[Gordon Craig]

May 1 in the Communist world was always a major celebration day. In a lot of the iron curtain countries it still is. Today is a national holiday in Hungary and the beautiful weather has brought out throngs of people.

One of the common features in the iron curtain countries May Day celebrations was the production and dissemination of May Day pins to be worn on that day. I opnly have two and they are pictured below. The small red round one on your left appears to be from the Soviet Union. It is undated and the back has "20k" stamped into it. The one on the right is for Hungary May 1, 1957. If you have some, or even just one, please add a picture of them to this thread.

Regards,

Gordon

Edited May 1, 2009 by Gordon Craig

[speedytop]

Gordon

That is Hungarian: 1. M?jus 1957

And that is German: 1. Mai 1957 (East and West German )

GDR 1950 to 1962, missing 1953:

Regards

Uwe

[hunyadi]

Some of the more rare Hungarian May 1st Badges...