Afghan War Friendship Treaty USSR Afghanistan

£450.00

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

Russia

Year

1980

Style

Propaganda Posters

Artist

V.P. Dobrovolsky

Size (cm)

88x59.5