The Propaganda Archive

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The peoples of the world are waiting! (Soviet poster, 1962)

Text: The peoples of the world are waiting!

Year: 1962.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: Viktor Ivanovich Govorkov.

Additional Information: Shows a Soviet man offering a pen to a defiant Uncle Sam for him to sign a nuclear treaty, with the paper reading ‘General and complete disarmament under strict international control’. The line appears in the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed a year later in Moscow by the US, UK and USSR (followed by many others). Poster designed by Viktor Ivanovich Govorkov, one of the most famous Soviet propagandists of the time.