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title: Berliners present gifts to Soviet soldiers "for their considered intervention" on 17 June 1953
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-volkssolidaritaet-thanks-soviet-soldiers-adn-1953/
description: A Soviet officer holds a carved wooden group of two figures while a woman presents a bouquet, with other Red Army soldiers and civilians behind.
section: Collection
---

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# Berliners present gifts to Soviet soldiers "for their considered intervention" on 17 June 1953

A Soviet officer holds a carved wooden group of two figures while a woman presents a bouquet, with other Red Army soldiers and civilians behind. The photograph has no text of its own; the agency caption supplies the frame, calling 17 June 'the day of the fascist provocation' (name-calling) and saying the Berlin population 'again and again' thanks the Soviet army (bandwagon: repetition and numbers of thankers stand for the claim).

## Text on the object

Checked for printed text

No printed or legible text on this object.

Checked on the committed image; the carved figures and badges carry no legible text. The Bundesarchiv agency caption is quoted in notes.

[← "Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-berlin-demonstration-trust-in-government-banner-1953/) [Contentment and Loathing (Chinese two-panel poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/contentment-and-revulsion-chinese-1953/)

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