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
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.
- Date
- 1991
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Ba'athist Iraqi government (state-sponsored public mural of President Saddam Hussein), photographed afterwards in Iraq in 1991
- Country
- Iraq
- Medium
- Artwork
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ba'athist Iraq
- Leader
- Saddam Hussein
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Gulf War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Regime
- Ba'athist Iraq
- Leader
- Saddam Hussein
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (also GFDL) per Commons file page; OTRS ticket 2011121910002884
Bastiaan Everink (uploaded by Henk Obee), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
بطل النصر والسلام
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.
