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"Out, out, brief candle"
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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Spatial Coverage | Czechoslovakia |
Description | Editorial cartoon shows Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, using a military helmet, symbolizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, to snuff a candle labeled "Czech spirit" and put to an end the Czech uprising against communist rule. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection |
Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich,--1906-1982. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968. |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |