Cartoon by Krilov criticising the signing of the Élysée Treaty (10 February 1963)

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‘Now France can breathe more easily. Franco-German military agreement’. On 10 February 1963, the satirical Soviet weekly magazine Krokodil criticises the signing of the Élysée Treaty. The cartoonist sees this new cooperation between France and Germany as a subjugation of France by the Federal Republic of Germany and a dangerous step towards German military rearmament. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, wearing the Wehrmacht military uniform, is sitting on the back of French President Charles de Gaulle and cheerfully signing the future Franco-German treaty. The two are piled on top of a ‘Marianne’, whose arms are tied up. The allegorical figure of France, a symbol of freedom and the Republic, does not appreciate the submissive position in which she finds herself.

Quelle und Copyright

Quelle: Krylov, Andrei. Maintenant la France va pouvoir mieux respirer!. In: Krokodil. 10-02-1963. n°4 (1690), p.12. ISSN 0130-2671.

Copyright: (c) Krokodil
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Cartoon by Krilov criticising the signing of the Élysée Treaty (10 February 1963)