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title: بطل النصر والسلام (Hero of Victory and Peace), Saddam Hussein roadside mural, bullet-damaged
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/saddam-hero-of-victory-and-peace-mural-1991/
description: A painted panel set in a masonry frame shows President Saddam Hussein in uniform with a raised hand, above a banner reading 'Hero of Victory and Peace'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Bullet-damaged state mural of Saddam Hussein; a uniformed soldier stands beside it. No graphic content. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![بطل النصر والسلام (Hero of Victory and Peace), Saddam Hussein roadside mural, bullet-damaged](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/saddam-hero-of-victory-and-peace-mural-1991.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/saddam-hero-of-victory-and-peace-mural-1991.jpg)

# بطل النصر والسلام (Hero of Victory and Peace), Saddam Hussein roadside mural, bullet-damaged

A painted panel set in a masonry frame shows President Saddam Hussein in uniform with a raised hand, above a banner reading 'Hero of Victory and Peace'. The tell is the title itself: two broadly approved abstractions (victory, peace) are attached to the leader's person as an epithet, with no specific act or claim behind them. The panel is pocked with bullet impacts in the photograph, and a uniformed soldier stands beside it.

## Text on the object

Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
بطل النصر والسلام
```

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

```
Hero of victory and peace
```

Banner text across the lower panel, white lettering on dark ground; clear. A small painted signature at the lower left of the picture area is illegible. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Gulf War leaflet, skull-faced figure 'Ruler of the dead'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gulf-war-leaflet-ruler-of-the-dead-skull-1991/) [Baghdad communique and RCC-Ba'th statement, 17 January 1991 (FBIS translation) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-communique-3-fbis-1991/)

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