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
"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.
- Date
- March 30, 1983
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency), photographer Peter Zimmermann; meeting held in a works club house, organiser not named in this frame's caption
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Willi Stoph
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Techniques
- Name-callingGlittering generalities
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-1983-0330-023, 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 183-1983-0330-023 / Zimmermann, Peter / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
SOLIDARITÄT HILFT SIEGEN! STOP HÄNDE WEG VON NIKARAGUA!
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.
