Size: 32.5×24.5cm./12.7×9.6inch.
Weight: 19gr./0.6oz.
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Poster made in the Soviet Union. The text on the poster reads:”Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov”.
The poster is not in the best condition, this will reflect in the price.
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (1908-1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.
At the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in June 1941, Joseph Stalin appointed the 32-year-old Ustinov to the post of People’s Commissar of Armaments. From this position, he supervised the massive evacuation of the defence industry from the besieged city of Leningrad to east of the Ural Mountains, a feat for which he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour.
At the war’s end, he was entrusted with seizing raw materials, scientists and research left over from Germany’s missile programme. By 1976, he succeeded Andrei Grechko as Minister of Defense and received the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Thereafter, Ustinov’s hardline attitudes towards the West and unreserved backing for the Soviet arms buildup would dominate his country’s national security policy up until his death in 1984.