Original political poster, Every Frontier is Decisive. Scars are the marks of a man's life. Defending Stalingrad, People's Republic of China, c. 1965. An unusual propaganda poster, printed in both Russian and Chinese, commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi forces at Stalingrad in 1943. Posters like this one, celebrating the shared endeavour of international communist armies, were printed in China throughout the 1960s. However, later dissatisfaction with the direction of the USSR under Khrushchev eventually led the Chinese leadership to distance itself from ‘Soviet revisionism’. A higher resolution image is available for viewing on request.