"So this is how imperialists 'disarm'".
Poster
1932 (made)
1932 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
General Description: Russian poster listing the combined Defence budgets of England, France, Italy, the USA and Japan for the years 1914, 1923 and 1931.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | "So this is how imperialists 'disarm'". |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by N. Kochergin entitled '"So this is how imperialists 'disarm'". Russia, 1932. |
| Physical description | General Description: Russian poster listing the combined Defence budgets of England, France, Italy, the USA and Japan for the years 1914, 1923 and 1931. |
| Object history | The captions on the poster, apart from the main one and the names of the countries, include the total overall Defence budget for the latter, of 2,324 million dollars for 1931, (Each coin represents 2 million dollars) and a quote from Stalin "What do the Bourgeois governments arm and rearm for. Not of course for talks, but for War". |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1272-1989 |
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| Record created | December 9, 2008 |
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