Peace Marchers Reach Red Square

Peace Marchers Reach Red Square

Photograph

Peace Marchers Reach Red Square

1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (16 × 23.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0088
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Moscow) 10/61 20) PEACE MARCHERS REACH RED SQUARE but were refused right to \ speak in the shadow of the Lenin-Stalin tomb. They stood in \ "silent vigil" before the mausoleum and passed out pamphlets. Sign \ in center reads, "We call on all peoples to reject immediately nuclear \ weapons." Marchers were handed notes by Russian students saying, \ "Don't take any notice of these official speeches. We do not all \ think like that." \ Credit: Brad Lyttle © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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