Russia wants peace (British newspaper, 1939)

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Text: Russia wants peace.

Year: November 1939.

Publisher:’Russia Today’ newspaper.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: The page shows an image of Polish peasants gifting apples to a Red Army soldier, with the text at the bottom reading: ‘On September 17 the Red Army crossed the Polish frontier to save the people from war … it was welcomed by the peasants and their families … Here a Red Army man is given a gift of fruit … See pages 6 and 7 for full story.’ Russia Today (not associated with the modern Russia Today) appears to have been a small and short-lived publication edited by prominent British communist Charles Ashleigh, who had spent several years working in the Soviet Union.