In Amsterdam half a million people opposed cruise missiles in europe november 1981
In the seventies and eighties, photojournalist Piet den Blanken (1951), documentated the opposition against nuclear weapons. Here are shown some pictures of the largest rally ever in the Netherlands.
Abroad they called this widespread resentment against the international arms-race the "Dutch Disease" , a term most Dutchmen were rather proud of.
Click on the picture above to start the series (keep on clicking on the pictures to see the next ones).
Or click here to go to Den Blanken's homepage, from where you have access to his other picture-series: Cuba as it is, The Kid-Soldier, Manhunters, the Ceuta Tragedy and more.