Soviet Peace Propaganda

Soviet Peace Propaganda

Photograph

Erich Lessing

Maker
Austrian, 1923–2018

Soviet Peace Propaganda

East Germans – Behind the Wall


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 9 1/8 in. (15.3 × 23.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0050
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso BC: ns) [word cut off] 9/61 9) SOVIET PEACE PROPAGANDA indoctrinates leipzig \ citizens with the idea that Premier Khrushchev holds the \ power of peace in his hands now that the Russian nuclear \ power has "caged" that of the USA. \ Credit: Erich Lessing © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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