Size 13' X 10", 32 pp. excluding the cover. Printed on high quality coated paper. Contains a large number of photos as well as textual information. Circulation 500,000 copies.

In very good condition. The cover shows minor age and use wear. There is a rip on top right as well as a very small separation of the cover at the fold on top. Very minor corner bumps and scuffs. The back cover page fared better and has only a very short rip center top. The first page shows a tear at the bottom and minor staining along the right edge as well as some age toning. The rest of the internal pages

Size 13' X 10", 32 pp. excluding the cover. Printed on high quality coated paper. Contains a large number of photos as well as textual information. Circulation 500,000 copies.

In very good condition. The cover shows minor age and use wear. There is a rip on top right as well as a very small separation of the cover at the fold on top. Very minor corner bumps and scuffs. The back cover page fared better and has only a very short rip center top. The first page shows a tear at the bottom and minor staining along the right edge as well as some age toning. The rest of the internal pages are in much better condition, showing mostly just some very light age toning.

In 1953 Ogonyok ("Little flame") was in its 31st year of publication and was immensely popular among the Soviet population, starved for entertaining periodicals.
The article on page 1 could not be missed. Half a million people would read about the QUOTE slimy band of cannibals with ties to the international Jewish nationalist organization "Joint", which, under the guidance of the American counterintelligence wreaks subversion, terrorism and other destruction in a number of countries, the Soviet Union among them END QUOTE. So, if Stalin didn't die 3 months after this issue of Ogonyok was published, Soviet medicine would have been severely crippled by the purge he was planning.

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