Monday, July 10, 2023

Soviet Posters From World War Two

These original posters were photographed, with permission, during a visit to the National Art Museum in Komsomol Na Amur. There are also a few front pages from Komsomolskaya Pravda which were published at that time. 

Translations into English are in red and in some cases explanations are in black below each poster.



WE WILL DEFEND MOSCOW!


YOUTH, FIGHT FOR YOUR MOTHERLAND!


Front page of Komsomolskaya Pravda announcing the Conference at Yalta between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin




The top headline above the newspaper's name reads roughly: 
GLORY TO GREAT STALIN THE CREATOR OF OUR VICTORY!


MORE PLANES, TANKS, BIG GUNS, ARTILLERY 


KILL THE FASCIST BASTARD!


THE TIME IS COMING WHEN THE RED ARMY TOGETHER WITH ALLIED ARMIES WILL BREAK THE SPINE OF THE FASCIST BEAST


The boot is stomping on three words:

UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL, LESSONS

Below them, along the bottom is a short poem:

A pig does not need culture or science
its worldview is very limited
Mein Kampf is the most sophisticated note
of its oinking
and a sergeant's boot is its ideal


This is like a musical jingle. 

NOT A VOICE FROM THEIR THROAT 
BUT A BEAST'S ROAR 
BECAUSE THE PLANS OF THE BLITZKIEG
WERE FOILED


THE BAYONETS ARE GETTING CLOSER AND THE GERMAN MONSTER IS MOANING IN AGONY, FEELING THAT THE END IS NEAR


FOR OUR HOMELAND, 
FOR HONOR, FOR FREEDOM!


"....THE RED ARMY TOGETHER WITH ALLIED ARMIES WILL BREAK THE SPINE OF THE FASCIST BEAST."  J. Stalin


THE HOUR IS NEAR WHEN GERMANS WILL PAY FOR ALL THEIR CRIMES
DEATH TO FASCISTS- CHILD MURDERERS!





YOU GAVE US OUR LIFE BACK!


GLORY TO THE SOVIET AIR FORCE!


FOR THE MOTHERLAND!


YOU
HOW HAVE YOU HELPED THEM AT THE FRONT?

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