No to War!
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
USSR (printed)
- Date:
1970 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Briskin, V. (artist)
Ivanshenko, O. (editors) - Materials and Techniques:
colour offset lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.1753-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR22
This poster is a typical example of 1970s Soviet propaganda, taking as its subject the Cold War arms race. The USSR here aligns itself with the countries of the Socialist bloc as pacifist states, directly opposed to the perceived militaristic North American and European nations that formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
One of the crucial issues of Soviet Union geopolitics was opposing NATO's placement of Pershing rockets in strategically important areas.
