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Presentation of the Sword of Stalingrad (Soviet illustration, 1948)

Text: NA.

Year: 1948.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: Konstantin Finogenov.

Additional Information: Shows Churchill handing the Sword of Stalingrad to Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943. The sword was forged on the orders of the British King George VI to be presented to Stalin at the conference ‘in token of the homage of the British people’.