Inscriptions

hand: Imperialism \r\nleft: Bun Um [Prince of Laos who formed an anti-communist government in the early 1960s with the backing of the US] - one sign says "I agree!" and the other says "I do not agree!"\r\nPark Chung-hee [President of South Korea 1961-1979] holds sign that reads "Military dictatorship" and tramples Chang Do-yong [his precedessor]\r\n\r\nright: \r\nKasa-Vubu [first President of the Republic of the Congo, 1960-65] attacking Tshombe [Congolese politician who advocated for the secession of the Katanga Province, later part of Kasa-Vubu's government]\r\nCardona is broken at the bottom [head of Cuban Revolutionary Council, worked with Kennedy administration on Bay of Pigs invasion]\r\n\r\npoem:\r\nTo capitalists at heart\r\nKasa-Vubu, Bun Um, Cardona\r\nAre paper-mache "prime ministers"\r\nand cardboard "presidents."\r\n\r\nEven these dolls occasionally\r\nConduct "hot wars" amongst themselves\r\nBut their unrest and passion\r\nIs subject to the master's power. \r\n\r\nAnd a rather miserable end awaits \r\nThe puppets of various countries\r\nThey end their lives in the junkyard\r\nLike Menderes and Syngman Rhee! \r\n\r\nUL: Agit-plakat no. 872 \r\nUnion of artists of the USSR and the Moscow Department of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR\r\n\r\nLL: artist: Boris Efimov\r\nLC: Agitplakat Workshop of the Moscow Department of the Artistic Fund of the RSFSR \r\nLR: Poem by S. Shvetsov