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title: Signed "Fahne der Solidarität" handed to a DRV diplomat, LPG Mansfeld
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-mansfeld-solidarity-flag-vietnam-1972/
description: On a harvest field in front of combine harvesters, cooperative farmers hold up a GDR state flag on which are written the name of their farm, 'DDR…
section: Collection
---

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# Signed "Fahne der Solidarität" handed to a DRV diplomat, LPG Mansfeld

On a harvest field in front of combine harvesters, cooperative farmers hold up a GDR state flag on which are written the name of their farm, 'DDR Solidarität Vietnam' and a block of signatures; a man in a dark suit (identified in the archive caption as a DRV embassy secretary) holds the other end. The wire-service caption stresses that all 300 members signed. Participation is shown as unanimous and is offered as the argument (bandwagon).

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LPG
"Oskar Schneller"
Mansfeld
DDR
Solidarität
Vietnam
[signatures, illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
LPG (agricultural production cooperative)
"Oskar Schneller"
Mansfeld
GDR
Solidarity
Vietnam
[signatures, illegible]
```

Handwritten lettering on the flag's black-red-gold stripes; the signatures on the gold stripe cannot be read. The archive's scale marking at lower left (Bild number, photographer, date) is the archive's, not part of the object.

[← Mao portrait and Party slogan on the Beijing airport terminal, Nixon arrival, 21 February 1972](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/beijing-airport-mao-portrait-party-slogan-nixon-arrival-1972/) ["英雄黄继光" (Hero Huang Jiguang), Shanghai poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hero-huang-jiguang-poster-china-1973/)

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