368 - Affiche Ancienne Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster titled The Freedom of the Bourgeois Press, created by Kukryniksy, depicting a colossal faceless figure with a formal collar and a tie shaped like a giant sack of coins dropping gold coins into the slots of the journalists heads, each journalist representing anti-Soviet media narrative - Suppression of religion in the USSR in the German Social Democratic newspaper Vorwarts; Forced Labour in the USSR for the British tabloid Daily Mail; Dumping for the French conservative Le Martin; and Red imperialism in the USSR written for Rul, a prominent White emigre newspaper published in Berlin. Kukryniksy was the collective name formed from the combined names of three caricaturists - Mikhail Kupriyanov (1903-1991), Porfiri Krylov (1902-1990) and Nikolai Sokolov (1903-2000). Good condition, creasing, tears, punched holes, metal ringlets on bottom corners, staining, tape marks. Country of issue: Russia, designer: Kukryniksy, size (cm): 72x51, year of printing: 1931.