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a) Red and black fabric pennant, red stitching, with white painted text "1st Aniversario 1980 FSLN."

b) Red fabric pennant, blue stitching, with white star and text "FMLN El Salvador."

FSLN, or the Sandinista National Liberation Front…

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Two aprons made from plain white fabric scraps and spray-painted in red, "No mas impuestos / no mas corrupcion / AMPRONAC" ("no more taxes / no more corruption"). AMPRONAC was a women's branch of FSLN (Sandinistas), titled in English the Association…

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Illustrated Spanish-language paperback book bound with staples, "Lenin Conversa con los Ninos" by A. Kononov. Designed by Nikolai Zhukov and published in Moscow, Russia, in 1980.

According to Sr. Alicia Ramirez, SL, this type of book was used by…

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Hexagonal paper badge for "Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetizacion Nicaragua / 1980," with image of a male figure and a female figure holding books above the Nicaraguan flag and the FSLN flag.

The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign was launched by the FSLN…

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Two shellacked wood pins, with safety pins glued to backs. a) "Viva Nicaragua libre" with image of the sun and two doves, one with an FSLN flag and one with the Nicaraguan flag. b) "Nicaragua libre" with image of the sun and black figures waving the…

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Cardboard match box; one side has image of a gun-holding person with text "Milicias Populaires Sandinistas"; other side has list of names of "heroes and martyrs" in tiny text surrounding the FSLN logo of a cut-out figure, with text "1927 FSLN 1980"…

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Woven thread bracelet, red and black with "FSLN" in center, with white woven ends.

FSLN, or the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Sandinistas), was the left-wing Marxist revolutionary party that took control of Nicaragua in 1979. This…
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