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).
- Date
- July 1, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- ADN-Zentralbild (GDR state news agency); the scene shows members of the Volkssolidarität presenting gifts, per the agency caption; photographer not named
- Country
- East Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Gdr Uprising 1953
- Techniques
- Name-callingBandwagon
- Leader
- Otto Grotewohl
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), Bild 183-20153-0001, 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 183-20153-0001 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
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.
