Cartoon by Behrendt on the consequences of the installation of Soviet SS-20 missiles (21 November 1980)

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‘We will not tolerate any change in balance’. On 21 November 1980, against the backdrop of the Euromissile crisis, Fritz Behrendt, a Dutch cartoonist originally from Berlin, illustrates Moscow’s decision to deploy tactical SS-20 nuclear missiles on Soviet soil, thereby challenging the balance of forces in Europe. On the right: Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1964 to 1982, whose decision has altered the strategic balance in Europe.

Source and copyright

Source: Behrendt, Fritz. "Wir werden eine Änderung des Gleichgewichts nicht dulden" dans Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 21.11.1980, p.3.

Copyright: (c) Fritz Behrendt

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Cartoon by Behrendt on the consequences of the installation of Soviet SS-20 missiles (21 November 1980)