(Description) Figure 1 This poster was among the many produced by groups set up by the Conservative Party to discredit the anti-nuclear movement ahead of the 1983 general election in the UK. Depicting former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (who died in 1953) holding a mask, the implication is that anti-nuclear activists were in fact Communists or were at least being manipulated by the Soviet Union to serve that country’s interests rather than Britain’s.

Session 4: How have governments responded to anti-nuclear activism?

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A poster with the following text: Who’s behind the so-called peace movements?