Cartoon by Lang on GDR and perestroika (3 December 1988)
Image ‘Temptation — Governess Honecker: ‘Don’t look! That’s a porn shop …’ In 1988, in response to Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union (USSR, or ‘UDSSR’ in German), the cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang portrays the refusal of the East German leadership to reform the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Source and copyright
Source: LANG, Ernst Maria. Immer auf die Grossen, Karikaturen eines Unbequemen. München: Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 1996, p. 134.
Copyright: (c) Ernst Maria LANG
