Solidaritätsmeeting für El Salvador, Sandersdorf (Bezirk Halle)
A schoolgirl reads out a declaration at a hall meeting, beneath a banner reading 'Our solidarity greeting to the fighting people of El Salvador' and a draped flag lettered FMLN. The agency caption supplies the frame: a 'just liberation struggle' of 'patriots', backed 'unanimously' by 'over 200 citizens', so virtue words and a headcount stand in for any account of the conflict itself.
- Date
- January 26, 1982
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Thomas Lehmann; meeting organiser not named in the record
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Salvadoran Civil War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesBandwagon
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-1982-0126-031, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 de (Bundesarchiv release via Wikimedia Commons; file page states licence and attribution)
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1982-0126-031 / Lehmann, Thomas / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
Unser solidarischer Gruß dem kämpfenden Volk El Salvadors [on the draped flag:] FMLN
Our solidarity greeting to the fighting people of El Salvador [on the draped flag:] FMLN
Banner and flag read from the 500 px committed image; the flag's letters are partly folded and read as FMLN with a star. The agency caption is quoted in the notes and is not part of the printed text on the object.
