Cartoon by Murschetz on Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union

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‘Ice-breaker Gorbachev.’ In 1988, the German cartoonist, Luis Murschetz, portrays the difficulties faced by Mikhail Gorbachev, the new First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, in his attempts at introducing economic and political reforms in the Soviet bloc as the basis for perestroika.

Source and copyright

Source: MURSCHETZ, Luis. Nägel mit Köpfen. München: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, 1988. 384 S. ISBN 3-426-02730-5.

Copyright: (c) Murschetz

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Cartoon by Murschetz on Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union