Long live the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics! (Soviet poster, 1972)

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Text: Long live the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, the great socialist fatherland, the unbreakable multinational commonwealth of brother peoples, the living embodiment of the principles of proletarian internationalism!

Year: 1972.

Publisher: Fine Art Publishers.

Artist: Vladimir Dobrovolski.

Additional Information: The poster shows characters representing various Soviet republics walking arm-in-arm below the red banner and a portrait of Lenin. Nations from left to right: Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Estonia.