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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Monday, March 15, 2021

ДОСААФ is for the Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy

Or; DOSSAF is for Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии, Авиации и Флоту! 'Dossaf' was a semi-civilian or paramilitary organisation, technically centrered on sports, but probably best described as a Soviet version of the Hitler Youth (a parallel some Russians will hate me for, but history is history!), membership went a long-way toward your later progression in society or through the 'party'.

Like most State-owned (or in this case 'regime' specific) organs of the Soviet system - as practiced in both Russia and China - they ended up with a few industrial plants, among the output of which were toys and playthings.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
The plant at Odessa being best known [by us collectors'] for their Timpo 'Swoppet' clones, slightly comical for being more African than Eurasian/Amerindian in the old skin-tone . . . have to be careful what I say here (readers in the future will need to reacquaint themselves with the March 2021 appearance of Prince, Duke the posh, his ex-Majesty Harry the Harry-not-Henry, and his missus, on the Oprah Winfrey Show) . . . , but were available in a lovely palate of 'toy' coloured legs and - more importantly from my fandom point of view - bases.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
I also have a number of mixed loose figures (upper shot) while the packaging has a lot in common with the aluminium set we looked at here from Gidromana, being vacuum shrunk-wrapped onto a piece of card.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
Among the loose ones are (or is?) another pair of running legs, giving three types; just off the base (white), leg near-parallel with the plane of the base (green) and a bit of a donkey-kick (pink and yellow), but there are other differences.

Авиации и Флоту; ДОСААФ; Добровольное Общество Содействия Армии; Одесский производственный комбинат; г.Одесса; ул.Заславского 9; American Indians; and Navy; Aviation; DOSAAF; g.Odessa; Indian Toy Figures; Industrial plant DOSAAF; Native American Indians; Odessa; Odesskiy proizvodstvennyy kombinat DOSAAF; OSOAVIAKhIM; Paramilitary Sport Organization in the Soviet Union; Russian; Swoppet Indians; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys; ul.Zaslavskogo 9; Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army; Zaslavsky Street 9; Добровольное Общество Содействия Ð; Одесский производственный комбина;
One of them has a separate weapon (top left), you may have noticed some alternate weapons in the second image (a club, a spear, a Barberry pirate's cutlass!), but others differ (top right, rifles) and the base on one is very different, while I have yet to find the figure for the bigger bows (which may be unconnected) and a third rifle also comes as a separate moulding.

This all points to at least three sources of these figures, whether or not they were all Dossaf facilities or some other collective outfit/s is unknown at this time, but as-per those Progress flats we've looked-at before, there would have been duplicate moulds for other sources or other makers . . . and it makes collecting them more fun!

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