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The film poster announces Alexander IvanovSukharevsky’s movie The Boat from 1988. In the 1990s, Ivanov-Sukharevsky became active as a politician on the extreme right. In 1994, he founded the People’s National Party (NNP), inspired by the ideas of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Alexander Chantsev, The Boat, 1989
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Stalin’s face lacks eyes, and he is wearing a modern-day business suit, suggesting that Stalinism lives on today in different disguises. The poster is based on the painting in the Wende Museum’s Tom and Jeri Ferris Russian collection, no. 15 in this exhibition, by Yuri Leonov.
Yuri Leonov, Stalinism, 1990
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This is a promotional poster for the film The Dissident (1988) by Valeriu Jereghi.
Igor Maystrovsky, The Dissident, 1989
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