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East German

Ski Pin Exhibit

'Curated' by

Dr. Ivan Ivanov

TrotSki is moderately satisfied to announce a 'special' curated exhibit from our less than renowned Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Ivan Ivanov. The exhibit consists of a poorly crafted pin from the 1957 East German Ski Championships. The pin is allegedly from Dr. Ivanov's personal collection. Dr. Ivanov recently completed his doctoral dissertation titled "DDR Meisterscheften 1957: An Ethnographic and Technological Examination of the 1957 East German Ski Championships with a Particular Emphasis on DDR Ski Jumping Legend, Helmut Recknagel." We cannot begin to speculate on what scholarly discipline this fell into. And Dr. Ivanov refuses to tell.

We had requested that Dr. Ivanov provide us with a scholarly analysis for the exhibit. Regrettably, we have somehow managed to associate ourselves with somebody even more lazy and obstinate than TrotSki's own museum curator. Dr. Ivanov simply shipped the pin to the museum from the Raino Popovich museum in Karlovo, Bulgaria with no supporting information or documentation. Dr. Ivanov then informed us that he is too busy with his new book tentatively titled "Behind the Iron Jib: The Rise and Fall of Eastern Bloc Sailing in the period 1972 to 1986: A Treatise on Pre-Glasnost Finn Sailing Strategy." If any museum patrons wish to obtain more information, please write to Dr. Ivanov directly at the address below (good luck with that).

The exhibit will run indefinitely until we have enough funds to ship this pin back to Bulgaria.

helmut recknagel:

Alert!

The upstanding sailors at the Redberry Lake Society for the Preservation of Pre-Glasnost Finn Sailing have taken pity upon TrotSki! After having endured their visit to what is admittedly an embarrassingly lacklustre DDR Ski Pin Exhibit, the RLSFTPOPGFS have donated two Soviet era sailing pins to TrotSki to buttress our uninspired exhibit. The first pin is a Soviet bear (Bear Name: Misha) from the 1980 Moscow Olympics once gifted to Redberry Lake Finn legend, Clarence Lammens, as a gesture of goodwill by Soviet Finn legend, Oleg Khoperski, at the 1985 Finn Gold Cup in Marstrand, Sweden. The second is a Soviet Finn pin which Clarence won as a prize by out arm-wrestling DDR Finn Sailing legend, Jochen Schummann, somewhere on the shores of the Gulf of Gdansk (year undetermined). TrotSki couldn't be more grateful for Clarence and the Redberry Lake Society for the Preservation of Pre-Glasnost Finn Sailing. We couldn't be less grateful for that yutz, Dr. Ivanov.