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title: Bilingual banner "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship" on a Moscow house of culture, XII World Festival of Youth and Students
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-vit-1985-hungarian-club-antiimperialist-banner/
description: A long red banner across the facade of a factory house of culture carries the same slogan in Hungarian and Russian, with festival emblems and dove panels…
section: Collection
---

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# Bilingual banner "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship" on a Moscow house of culture, XII World Festival of Youth and Students

A long red banner across the facade of a factory house of culture carries the same slogan in Hungarian and Russian, with festival emblems and dove panels hanging below and a smaller welcome banner for a Hungarian national club over the entrance. The slogan strings together positive abstractions (solidarity, peace, friendship) beside the political label "anti-imperialist", with no concrete policy named (glittering generalities).

## Text on the object

Original (Hungarian; Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Long red banner:] ANTIIMPERIALISTA SZOLIDARITÁS, BÉKE ÉS BARÁTSÁG! ЗА АНТИИМПЕРИАЛИСТИЧЕСКУЮ СОЛИДАРНОСТЬ, МИР И ДРУЖ[illegible, cut off by the frame]
[Small banner over the entrance:] KÖSZÖNTJÜK A MAGYAR NEMZETI KLUB VENDÉGEIT! ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ В ВЕНГЕРСКИЙ НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ КЛУБ !
```

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

```
[Long red banner:] Anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship! For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and frien[dship] (cut off)
[Small banner:] We welcome the guests of the Hungarian National Club! Welcome to the Hungarian National Club!
```

Read from the committed image. The Russian half of the long banner is cut off at the right edge of the frame; the last word is completed only as far as visible. Festival emblems and doves on the vertical panels carry no text.

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