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.