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- Birth nameBoris Fridlyand
- Boris Efimov was born on September 28, 1900 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Lesson Not Learned (1971), Mister Volk (1949) and The Tale About the Priest and His Worker Balda (1956). He died on October 1, 2008 in Moscow, Russia.
- Political cartoonist whose work spanned virtually the entire history of the Communist state, from shortly after the 1917 Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- He said that, in 1947, Stalin personally ordered him to draw US General Eisenhower with a large army claiming the North Pole. Stalin made his own changes to the cartoon in red crayon.
- The Soviet government sent him to the Nuremburg Trials to sketch the Nazis as they faced justice.
- To a certain extent, cartoons were weapons. (in a 2006 interview with the Associated Press)
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