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).
- Date
- 1985
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Host organisers of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow (decoration of the house of culture of the 1st State Bearing Plant, ulitsa Melnikova 7)
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: Viszkievicz Ferenc), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer); covers the photograph only
Fortepan / Viszkievicz Ferenc, ID 303105 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
[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 !
[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.
