Exhibit of Soviet Cartoons Opens
LONDON-- On the 60th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa -
Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union -Russian ambassador
Grigory Karasin opened a show of original Soviet wartime cartoons in London.
The display marked the first public activity of the newly founded Political Cartoon Society, which wants to make its newsletter, exhibitions and lectures an aid to teaching the history of politics.
"Political cartooning has had a major impact on both readers and historians since the time of William Hogarth in the 18th century," said Tim Benson, a history teacher active in the society.
The 20 Soviet cartoons that went on view Friday were the work of the best-known signature in Soviet cartooning, Kukryniksy -a collective name for Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolai
Sokolov.
They each suggested ideas for the incisive and savagely satirical anti-Nazi cartoons and then discussed and drew them together.
During their visit to Britain in 1956, Soviet leaders Nikolai
Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev presented the cartoons to James
Friel, who drew cartoons for the Daily Worker under the pseudonym
Gabriel.
Also on show are 15 drawings by New Zealander David Low from his
"Russian Sketchbook," about his Soviet visit in 1932. Low's cartoons in British newspapers from 1919 to his death in 1963 have given him the reputation in Britain of being the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century.
The Kukryniksy and Low drawings are at Vinopolis, a wine and entertainment center near the replica Globe Shakespearean theater, through Aug. 31.
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