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“Put Out That Light—Do You Want to Blow Up the Place?”
Nikita Khrushchev made Berlin a focal point for a Cold War showdown in August 1961. In the week before Herblock published this cartoon, East German authorities created a barricade to keep tens of thousands of citizens from fleeing to the West. By Friday, August 19, a five-foot concrete barricade had been erected in parts of the city. Herblock used powder kegs and missiles not only as a metaphor for the initial five-foot barricade, but also for the confrontation between East and West, arguing that what the Soviets feared the most was liberty for their people.
“Put Out That Light—Do You Want to Blow Up the Place?” 1961. Published in the Washington Post, August 23, 1961. |