"Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares is a bronze sculpture by artist Evgeniy Vuchetich (1908 ¬– 1974). Vuchetich was an esteemed Soviet sculptor and artist well-known for his heroic monuments. In 1959, he was given the “People’s Artist of the USSR” award.
The sculpture depicts the figure of a man, holding a hammer aloft in one hand and a sword in the other hand, hammering the sword into a ploughshare, a tool to till land for crops. This action symbolizes man’s desire to put an end to war and transform tools of destruction into tools to benefit mankind.
The Book of Isaiah contains the following passage: "They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
The sculpture was gifted to the United Nations by the USSR on December 4th, 1959. It was presented on behalf of the Soviet Delegation by Vassily V. Kuznetsov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR, to Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold who accepted the sculpture on behalf of the United Nations."
Shut up, fag. Communism laughably fails at everything besides spreading AIDS.
>>769007btw that statue is so gay, it deserves to be on a HFM album cover.
>>769007Still doesn't fail as hard as capitalism.
The USSR had a slave based economy until the 70's.
They had to build a wall to prevent people from leaving.
Their population had to work hard and had only pitance in return.
But I do like the quality of their propaganda.
>>769225>Their population had to work hard and had only pitance in return. lmaoooooooooo
>>769225if you're talking about the gulags,it wasn't even close to being the majority of the economy
they had to build it to stop the west from constantly trying to mess with east berlin (giving half of it was the most retarded move of the post war conference tho like wtf where they smoking ?)
I thought the problem was not enough commodities making black markets appear ? now it's not enough money ?