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:”Pyotr Nilovich Demichev”. The poster is not in the best condition, this will reflect in the price.
Pyotr Nilovich Demichev (1918-2010) was a Soviet politician. He was deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of Culture from 1974 to 1986.
He was a deputy Politburo member from 1964 until his retirement in 1988. He was considered to be a “Communist Party ideologist” with little sympathy for liberal movements within the Soviet Union. In 1937-1944 he served in the Red Army, he took part in military operations in Mongolia (1939-1940). After the dissolution of the USSR, Demichev lived in Moscow with his family. He died on August 10, 2010 from natural causes in the village of Zhavoronki, Odintsovsky district in Moscow at the age of 92. He was buried at the Znamensky cemetery.