"The Cutting"

"The Cutting"

Berlin and the USSR

This political cartoon is depicting Walter Ulbricht, the First Secretary of the East German Communist Party who was one of the people who ordered the Berlin Wall to be constructed. In this cartoon, Lang draws Ulbricht as a giant sitting on Berlin. He is holding the Soviet Unions symbol of a hammer and sickle to “trap” Eastern Germany from escaping to the Western side, which is barricaded by on of his large legs. In the cartoon, the trapped side of Eastern Germany seems to be desperately but poorly trying to climb the “wall” which is his leg, it is titled, “The Cutting.”

Ernst Maria Lang

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Luxembourg

August 16,1961

Cindy Serrano

Political Cartoon / Image

German

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