2010.54.5073

Amnesty International USA Campaign on the Soviet Union
Late 20th - Early 21st Century
24.00 in HIGH x 18.00 in WIDE
(60.96 cm HIGH x 45.72 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.5073

"Design: Clare Francis, Lithograph: Guttenburg, Franklin & Mechanic" printed at bottom left.

Poster printed with yellow, blue, and red ink on white paper. A silhouette of a cityscape with architecture similar to St. Basil's Cathedral in tones of blue, green, and yellow fills the upper portion of the page. A red symmetrical prison building appears at bottom, with a person looking out of a large barred window in the middle of the structure. Yellow text at left reads, "Amnesty International USA Campaign on the Soviet Union." A bulleted list to the right includes, "Psychiatric abuse / Religious persecution / Imprisonment of Helsinki monitors / Repression of independent trade unionists / Repression of ethnic minorities / Use of the death penalty." An address is provided for requesting pamphlets on human rights concerns at bottom center. An additional address is provided at bottom right for sending a message of concern to Moscow.
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