What Herluf Bidstrup saw in USSR
“What Herluf Bidstrup saw in USSR” – the title of the book of cartoons published in 1970s in Moscow. Noteworthy, Danish cartoonist Herluf Bidstrup (September 10, 1912 – December 26, 1988) was a Danish communist, who drew cartoons on foreign policy and social themes. In particular, his work “What Bidstrup saw in the USSR” captures and presents everyday life of the Soviet people in humour genre. The life, which he saw with his own eyes after he had travelled to the Soviet Union. By the way, Herluf Bidstrup, an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, received the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1964. Books with drawings by Bidstrup published in the USSR in huge editions and were very popular. Bidstrup was a convinced communist and considered in the USSR as a “progressive artist” because in his cartoons he exposed the ulcers and vices of a capitalist society, which in fact are relevant even in today’s state of world capitalism.
Since 1945 he worked in the newspaper of the Communist Party of Denmark “Land og Folk”. Meanwhile, the gallery of selected images from his book reconstructs the most important events of the time, according to the author.

“Every day, thousands of visitors from different parts of the Soviet UnionIn seek to get to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square”. What Herluf Bidstrup saw in USSR
What Herluf Bidstrup saw in USSR

8. In the same 1917 in the western country born baby. He grew up, and when behaved badly, parents told him not to act ‘as a communist’. It was first lesson about communists

11. He was ready to defend his country against aggresive USSR, but didn’t notice German nazi, which envaded his country

14. But the joy of liberation was short. Began the Cold War. Again, the newspapers blamed the Soviet Union

17. Meanwhile, the Soviet people launched first Sputnik, and first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew into space

18. Tired of news on TV and newspapers, he decided to visit the USSR to see everything with his own eyes

25. At Piskarevsky cemetery rest more than 600 000 inhabitants of Leningrad who died from the bombing and blockade in the Second World War

28. At the Elektrosila plant, 12,000 workers work. They supply with electrical appliances the hydroelectric power plants of the Soviet Union