Postcard from the Soviet Union and made in 1981. On the postcard is a picture made in 1936 probably in Spain. Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) was a Russian writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian. As a friend of many of the European Left, Ehrenburg was frequently allowed by Stalin to visit Europe and to campaign for peace and socialism. He arrived in Spain in late August 1936 as an Izvestia correspondent and was involved in propaganda and military activity as well as reporting.
In July 1937 he attended the Second International Writers’ Congress, the purpose of which was to discuss the attitude of intellectuals to the war, held in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid and attended by many writers including André Malraux, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Spender and Pablo Neruda.