Continuing on my series of oil paintings on significant events or people in modern history.
On the left, painting #10 shows the two leaders Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR and Richard Nixon of the US angrily facing each other. It depicts the all out confrontation between the two camps in the 1960s during the Cold War.
Painting #11 at the centre shows the comforting relations between the two leaders Margaret Thratcher of the UK and Ronald Reagan of the US. It depicts how they effectively advocate the free market economic system in the Western world since the 1980s.
On the right, painting #12 shows a man dramatically wielding a long hammer to try and break down the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin. It depicts the collapse and breakup of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries, ending the Cold War at around 1990.
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