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Boomerang (Russian emigre cartoon, 1951)

Text: Boomerang.

Year: 1951.

Publisher: Satirikon.

Artist: N. Ir-sky (Н. Ир-ского).

Additional information: Cartoon shows Stalin as a caveman being struck by the hammer-and-sickle boomerang he’s just fruitlessly flung at the West. Flags seem to be Russia, US, UK, France and Belgium.