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Propaganda Poster Afghan War Friendship Treaty USSR Afghanistan
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Original vintage propaganda poster commemorating the 1978 Treaty of Friendship Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan featuring a dynamic illustration of Soviet and Afghani soldiers armed with bayonet rifles and a machine gun standing together protecting a group of smiling people in front of a mountain on the right side, supporting a wall marked Agreement on the Protection of the Peoples of Afghanistan with caricatures of people bouncing off the strong stone wall on the left side, the images including a representation of the counter revolution attempts depicting a man in white wearing a turban and holding a machine gun in one hand and a knife in another; aggression plans depicted as an American CIA agent in black sunglasses and a hat over his eyes; diversions and conspiracies depicted as an Asian man holding a box with a bomb symbol on it, a soldier and a man falling and dropping his knife with the papers flying above, set below a yellow background with two quotes in red above reading - Russia will forever remain the first friend of the High Afghan State. V. Lenin; We will continue to help Afghanistan build a new life and preserve the gains of the April Revolution. L.I. Brezhnev. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing on edges, restored tears. Country of issue: Russia, designer: V.P. Dobrovolsky, size (cm): 88x59.5, year of printing: 1980.
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Original vintage propaganda poster commemorating the 1978 Treaty of Friendship Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan featuring a dynamic illustration of Soviet and Afghani soldiers armed with bayonet rifles and a machine gun standing together protecting a group of smiling people in front of a mountain on the right side, supporting a wall marked Agreement on the Protection of the Peoples of Afghanistan with caricatures of people bouncing off the strong stone wall on the left side, the images including a representation of the counter revolution attempts depicting a man in white wearing a turban and holding a machine gun in one hand and a knife in another; aggression plans depicted as an American CIA agent in black sunglasses and a hat over his eyes; diversions and conspiracies depicted as an Asian man holding a box with a bomb symbol on it, a soldier and a man falling and dropping his knife with the papers flying above, set below a yellow background with two quotes in red above reading - Russia will forever remain the first friend of the High Afghan State. V. Lenin; We will continue to help Afghanistan build a new life and preserve the gains of the April Revolution. L.I. Brezhnev. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing on edges, restored tears. Country of issue: Russia, designer: V.P. Dobrovolsky, size (cm): 88x59.5, year of printing: 1980.
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