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title: '"STOP - Hände weg von Nikaragua!": solidarity meeting at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Berlin'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-solidaritaetsmeeting-nicaragua-berlin-1983/
description: Young people applaud in a hall under a banner reading 'Solidarity helps to win!', one holding a sign 'STOP - Hands off Nicaragua!' with a drawn flag and…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Agency caption uses the label 'counter-revolutionary bands' for the Contras; photograph of a GDR youth solidarity meeting. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["STOP - Hände weg von Nikaragua!": solidarity meeting at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-solidaritaetsmeeting-nicaragua-berlin-1983.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-solidaritaetsmeeting-nicaragua-berlin-1983.jpg)

# "STOP - Hände weg von Nikaragua!": solidarity meeting at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Berlin

Young people applaud in a hall under a banner reading 'Solidarity helps to win!', one holding a sign 'STOP - Hands off Nicaragua!' with a drawn flag and star. The agency caption labels the other side 'counter-revolutionary bands' and calls the audience's stance 'firm solidarity', so a label and a virtue word carry the message in place of any description of who the fighters were.

## Text on the object

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

```
SOLIDARITÄT HILFT SIEGEN!

STOP
HÄNDE WEG
VON
NIKARAGUA!
```

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

```
SOLIDARITY HELPS TO WIN!

STOP
HANDS OFF
NICARAGUA!
```

Top banner and the large placard read from the 500 px committed image. Two smaller placards at the left and one at the right are too small to read. The agency caption is quoted in the notes and is not printed on the object.

[← Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez leaflet: "Integrate a las Milicias Rodriguistas" (c. 1983-1988)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chile-fpmr-integrate-milicias-rodriguistas-leaflet-1980s/) ["STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-suhl-youth-peace-manifestation-stop-sign-1983/)

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