I really love this logo from the 1980s "peace movement" in the USSR. I believe it originated with the European ant-nuclear group END (European Nuclear Disarmament)
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The whole concept of "peace movements" during the Cold War is very funny in retrospect because now we can confirm that groups that identified themselves as such were always composed primarily of either CIA or KGB assets, sometimes both
In the Soviet context, these groups skirted restrictions on political speech by calling for "greater understanding" and "disarmament." Such speech was more difficult to sanction because it echoed the mainstream Soviet propaganda which also called for such things
That being said, these independent peace groups were often heavily persecuted by the secret police, and when censorship eased in the late eighties they began to openly agitate for an end to the existing order and establishment of liberal democracy
These groups provided the political education for the most radical antisoviet activists of the late 1980s, several of whom became leading figures in the fight for queer rights in Russia in the 1990s
These networks between western NGOs and the nascent resistance and civil society movements of the late soviet period are still very much understudied. Here is the one book about this specific topic I can think of off the top of my head.
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