The Israel-USSR Friendship League mournfully announces the death of Joseph Stalin. “Father of the Victory over Hitlerism and the Flag-bearer of Worldwide Peace.”

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Lot 373
(SOVIET UNION).

The Israel-USSR Friendship League mournfully announces the death of Joseph Stalin. “Father of the Victory over Hitlerism and the Flag-bearer of Worldwide Peace.”

Poster broadside. Hebrew text. Clean folds. 18.5 x 25 inches (47 x 63.5 cm).

Tel Aviv: 6th March 1953

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $550
<<Full translation of text:>> Last night at 9:50 the heart of JOSEPH STALIN stopped. The head of the government of the Soviet Union, the father of victory over hitlerism, the bearer of the flag of peace throughout the entire world. Throngs of the nation in Israel are gripped in mourning over the death of the leader of progressive humanity. Strengthen and fortify the friendship between the Jewish nation and the Soviet Union for the sake of peace in Israel and for the sake of world peace. The League of Friendship between Israel-USSR.