End Conscription

End Conscription

Photograph

End Conscription

1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/8 × 9 1/8 in. (16.9 × 23.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0087
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Moscow) 10/61 19) END CONSCRIPTION and Act for Peace are among the \ suggestions written on the 145,000 pamphlets handed out by Peace \ Marchers to Russian soldiers stationed at a radar base on the \ Brest-Moscow Highway. To the marchers' surprise, they were \ permitted to demonstrate and hand out leaflets at this base. \ Credit: Brad Lyttle © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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