A young man being stabbed in the back by a syringe while a drug dealer lurks in the shadows. Colour lithograph after D. Oboznenko, ca. 1987.

[Leningrad] : Izdatel'stvo "Khudozhnik RSFSR", [1987?] ([Leningrad] : Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR")

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 44 x 32.8 cm

Ubĭi︠t︡sa. Kak udar nozhom igolka shpri︠t︡sa ... Prodav︠et︡s narkotikov - Ubĭi︠t︡sa! Khudozhniki D. Oboznenko. Stikhi A. Shkli︠a︡rinskogo. Bears device (palette and pencil) of Boevoĭ karandash, with legend "Boevoĭ karandash. Izdatel'stvo Khudozhnik RSFSR"

Produced by the Leningrad group of artists called Boevoĭ karandash (Militant pencil), in the satirical series I smekh i grekh (Laughter and sin). Some of the anti-alcoholism posters which they produced in the late 1980s are reproduced in Stephen White, Russia goes dry: alcohol, state and society, Cambridge 1996, pp. 73, 143, 149

Wellcome Collection 660206i