The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

The Italy-USSR Association was founded in 1944 and it had a counterpart in the Soviet Union, the USSR-Italy Association. As a cultural exchange program, the Association was often hampered by the lack of influential members owing to Italy’s general anti-Soviet stance during the Cold War. In turn, the Soviet government considered the Association in Italy far removed from true Soviet ideals. Nonetheless, inroads were made into the USSR for the exportation of Italian goods and in...