Multilingual banners at the Artek international Pioneer camp, Gurzuf: "Für antiimperialistischen Frieden und Freundschaft"
A choir of Pioneers in red neckerchiefs stands on a paved square ringed by banners in Russian, Arabic, French and German, a Lenin panel, and a vertical camp banner in several scripts. The slogans are virtue words (peace, friendship, a happy childhood) aimed at foreign guests, and the Lenin panel pairs the party's name with the children's loyalty (transfer).
- Date
- 1986
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Artek Pioneer camp (All-Union Pioneer organisation), Gurzuf, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: Györgyi Dóra), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer); covers the photograph only
Fortepan / Györgyi Dóra, ID 84904 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
[Lenin panel, caption, partly legible:] Тебе, родная партия, / Тебе, Советская Родина, / [illegible] знамёна, / [illegible], / верность и любовь. [Yellow banner, left:] СВОБОДУ НАРОДАМ ЮЖ[illegible] АФРИКИ И НАМ[illegible] [White banner, Arabic script:] [illegible at this resolution] [Vertical banner, top to bottom:] [illegible, Arabic-script and Latin lettering] ARTEK [illegible] [other-script lettering, illegible] [Yellow banner:] POUR UNE ENFANCE HEUREUSE / DANS UN MONDE PACIFIQUE [Grey-blue banner:] ДЕТИ [illegible] [Painted emblem:] НАМ ЭТОТ МИР [illegible] БЕРЕЧЬ [Pale banner, right:] FÜR ANTIIMPERIALISTISCH[illegible] / FRIEDEN UND FREUN[illegible] [Red banners, far right:] [illegible] ЛАТЫЕ [illegible] / МИР [illegible]
[Lenin panel:] To you, our own Party, / to you, Soviet Motherland, / [illegible] banners, / [illegible], / loyalty and love. [Yellow banner:] Freedom to the peoples of South[ern] [illegible] Africa and Nam[ibia] [Arabic banner:] [illegible] [Vertical banner:] ARTEK (other lettering illegible) [French banner:] For a happy childhood in a peaceful world [Grey-blue banner:] Children [illegible] [Emblem:] We must [illegible] protect this world [German banner:] For anti-imperialist peace and friendship (partly hidden) [Red banners:] [illegible] / Peace [illegible]
Read from enlarged crops of the committed image; many banners are partly out of frame, folded or too small to read, and the Arabic and other-script lettering was not transcribed. The Russian caption on the Lenin panel is legible only in its first two and last lines.
