USSR
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Into a new apartment (Soviet painting, 1952)
Text: NA. Year: 1952. Publisher: NA. Artist: Aleksandr Laktionov. Additional Information: Shows a mother entering her new apartment. The boy holds a portrait of Stalin and wears the scarf of the Young Pioneers while the mother wears a First Class Maternity Medal, awarded to women who had six or more children.
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Hours of daily tele-propaganda (Soviet cartoon, 1978)
Text: Hours of daily tele-propaganda showing violence, cruelty and debauchery poisons the souls of Western youth and contributes to the growth of crime in the capitalist countries. Year: 1978. Publisher: Krokodil magazine. Artist: Naum Moiseyevich Lisogorsky. Additional Information: Condemns the alleged poisoning of western youth with ‘tele-propaganda’, violence and pornography.
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The people of Africa will overpower the colonisers! (Soviet poster, 1960)
Text: The people of Africa will overpower the colonisers! Year: 1960. Publisher: State Publishing House. Artist: Kukryniksy. Additional Information: A slightly tweaked version of the design by Biafran cartoonist Chuks Anyanwu shows a Biafran man overpowering both the colonialist (here depicted with a hammer-and-sickle on his chest) and Nigeria. Published during the Biafra War, 1968.
