Shouting 'Vive Free Hungary' leather-jacketed 27-year-old Geza Matrai, of Toronto, leaps on back of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as he walks with Pri(...)

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Shouting 'Vive Free Hungary' leather-jacketed 27-year-old Geza Matrai, of Toronto, leaps on back of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as he walks with Pri(...)

Date10/18/1971

Names

Atrai, Geza (subject)

Griffin, Doug (photographer)

Kosygin, Aleksey Nikolayevich, 1904-1980 (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (subject)

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Picture

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Original Toronto Star caption: Shouting 'Vive Free Hungary' leather-jacketed 27-year-old Geza Matrai, of Toronto, leaps on back of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as he walks with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (right) today in Ottawa

Subject

Political activists

Politics and government

Portraits

Prime ministers

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0029962F

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