Preview
Publisher
Grand Forks Herald
Identification #
OGLMC 390
Creation Date
10-22-1961
Description
Cartoon depicts Premier Nikita Khrushchev frightening a man, labeled "Neutrals," with a ghost, labeled "Fear Technique" on a stick. In a speech given at the beginning of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that a test bomb equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT would be dropped on October 31, 1961.
Alternative title: Communism's 365 Days of Halloween; Year 'Round Trick No Treat
Subject
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons
Places Depicted
Soviet Union
Organizations Depicted
Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza
People Depicted
Krushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
Nikita Khrushchev, Nuclear Warfare, Test Bomb, 22nd Congress of the Communist Party, Halloween, Communist parties, Atomic bomb, Bomb threats, Ghosts, Neutrality