"Lenin, prebuď sa, Brežnev sa zbláznil": wall slogan after the Warsaw Pact invasion, Slovakia
Hand-painted lettering along the base of a cracked plaster wall in a Slovak town: 'Lenin, wake up, Brezhnev has gone mad.' It calls the Soviet leader mad and appeals to Lenin's founding authority against him, turning the Soviet party's own icon on its current head.
- Date
- 1968
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Anonymous author of the wall slogan; photograph by Tamás Konok id. (Fortepan donor)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- Leader
- Alexander Dubcek
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: Konok Tamás id.), ID 27585, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan release; Commons file page states the licence)
FOTO:FORTEPAN / Konok Tamás id., ID 27585 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
LENIN PREBUĎ SA – BREŽNEV SA ZBLÁZNIL
LENIN WAKE UP – BREZHNEV HAS GONE MAD
Read from the committed image. The words are painted in three groups that step up and down the wall: 'LENIN' at left, 'PREBUĎ SA –' above centre, 'BREŽNEV SA ZBLÁZNIL' below right, with a faint trace of paint to the right of the last word. 'BREŽNEV' and 'SA' are run together on the wall.
