LevelPiece
Ref NoLDG/1/1/89
TitleTwo Walls
Date30 November 1970
Extent1 cartoon
Creator NameGibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist
DescriptionWalter Ulbricht stands in front of a partialy destroyed wall, attempting to protect it from the incoming bulldozer operated by Leonid Illyich Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. In the background, Richard Nixon is calmly building a separate wall which has been labelled 'Tariffs'.

[News from 25 November: The treaties signed by the Soviet and Polish Government with Bonn were hailed by Brezhnev as he tried to reassure the east Germans that their interests were not being ignored.] (Source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive)
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