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title: Soviet Union propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/country/soviet-union/
description: Browse all 59 items from Soviet Union in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
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# Soviet Union propaganda in the collection

59 objects, listed by date.

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- [Կռիվ պալատներին!! Խաղաղություն խրծիթներին (War to the Palaces! Peace to the Huts): Armenian-language Soviet poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lenin-war-to-palaces-armenian-1924/) (Soviet Union · 1924 · Transfer)
- [Делегату 1-го Всеузбекского с'езда (To the Delegate of the 1st All-Uzbek Congress): bilingual Uzbek and Russian Soviet poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/delegatu-vseuzbekskogo-syezda-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Transfer)
- [Город — мануфактуру, деревня — хлеб (Town: Manufactured Goods; Village: Bread)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kustodiev-city-manufactures-village-bread-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Plain folks)
- [Лучшие работницы и крестьянки — в Ленинскую партию! (Best Women Workers and Peasant Women: into the Lenin Party!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luchshie-rabotnitsy-i-krestyanki-v-leninskuyu-partiyu-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Transfer)
- [Долой неграмотность! Грамотность — мост к процветанию твоего народа (Down with Illiteracy! Literacy Is a Bridge to the Prosperity of Your People)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ovanesov-down-with-illiteracy-north-caucasus-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Glittering generalities)
- [Ленин. Спи, вождь! Спи, учитель. Спи, боец (Lenin. Sleep, Leader! Sleep, Teacher. Sleep, Fighter)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spi-vozhd-lenin-memorial-poster-1925/) (Soviet Union · 1925 · Transfer)
- [Krokodil No. 20 (130), May 1925: How Much Land Does a Former Man Need? (cover, Malyutin)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-how-much-land-malyutin-1925/) (Soviet Union · May 1925 · Name-calling)
- [Krokodil No. 35 (145), September 1925: In the School of Hangmen (cover, Radakov)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-school-of-hangmen-radakov-1925/) (Soviet Union · Sep 1925 · Name-calling). Content note: Cartoon with gallows, a noose and an axe.
- [Krokodil No. 41 (151), October 1925: Germany Is Hiring Herself Out (cover, Radakov)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-germany-hires-out-radakov-1925/) (Soviet Union · Oct 1925 · Name-calling)
- [Krokodil No. 48 (158), December 1925: 1905, A Step to October (cover, Radakov)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-step-to-october-1905-radakov-1925/) (Soviet Union · Dec 1925 · Transfer)
- [Народы СССР раньше и теперь (The Peoples of the USSR, Before and Now: old and new life in Central Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kustodiev-peoples-of-the-ussr-before-and-now-1926/) (Soviet Union · 1926 · Card stacking)
- [Pravda, no. 79 (3611), front page (Moscow, 8 April 1927): 'Monstrous provocation by the Zhang Zuolin bandits'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pravda-chudovishchnaya-provokatsiya-1927/) (Soviet Union · Apr 8, 1927 · Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Soviet party-press front page labelling Chinese police 'bandits' and attributing a plot to Britain.
- [Крепи революционный фронт защиты СССР (Strengthen the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the USSR)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krepi-revolyutsionnyi-front-zashchity-sssr-1928/) (Soviet Union · 1928 · Name-calling, Scapegoating). Content note: Caricatures of clergy (a mitred bishop, a priest with a rosary, figures with crosses) and top-hatted men as small bloated figures trampled by giant marching workers.
- [Bezbozhnik u stanka No. 19, 1929: anti-alcohol issue, 'a modern variation on drunkenness at Cana' (cover)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bezbozhnik-u-stanka-anti-alcohol-cana-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Name-calling). Content note: Satirical depiction of Jesus Christ as a drunkard and moonshiner among drunken, vomiting men; ridicule of a religious figure.
- [Bezbozhnik u stanka No. 22, 1929: The Five-Year Plan crushes the gods (cover)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bezbozhnik-u-stanka-five-year-plan-crushes-gods-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Name-calling). Content note: Grotesque caricatures of Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious figures crushed by a Five-Year Plan symbol; includes a stereotyped caricature of a Jewish figure.
- [Enemies of the Five-Year Plan (Vragi pyatiletki)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-bedny-enemies-of-the-five-year-plan-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Name-calling, Scapegoating). Content note: Soviet caricatures of landowner, kulak, priest, capitalist, Menshevik and White officer as 'dogs'.
- [Long Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-long-live-the-first-of-may-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Transfer)
- [Proletarians of All Countries, Unite! (XII years of October)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/proletarians-of-all-countries-unite-xii-october-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Name-calling). Content note: Soviet poster with grotesque green-skinned caricatures of a capitalist and a Social Democrat officer being trampled.
- [Все в библиотеку! Каждый батрак, бедняк, колхозник должен стать читателем библиотеки (Everyone to the Library! Every Farmhand, Poor Peasant and Collective Farmer Must Become a Library Reader)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vse-v-biblioteku-batrak-bednyak-kolkhoznik-1929/) (Soviet Union · 1929 · Bandwagon)
- [Stalin's Pipe (Trubka Stalina)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-stalins-pipe-1930/) (Soviet Union · 1930 · Name-calling, Scapegoating). Content note: Soviet drawing of a wrecker, NEPman and kulak as caricatures blown away by Stalin's pipe smoke.
- [Рабочий СССР — на борьбу за пятилетку! (Worker of the USSR: Fight for the Five-Year Plan! Worker of the West: Fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/griffel-five-year-plan-workers-of-the-west-1930/) (Soviet Union · 1930 · Name-calling). Content note: Caricature of a bloated top-hatted capitalist being dragged across a globe by a worker.
- [Under the Banner of Lenin, for Socialist Construction (Pod znamenem Lenina za sotsialisticheskoe stroitelstvo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/klucis-under-the-banner-of-lenin-1930/) (Soviet Union · 1930 · Transfer)
- [In Our Kolkhoz There Is No Place for Priests and Kulaks (V nashem kolkhoze net mesta popam i kulakam)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mikhailov-no-place-for-priests-and-kulaks-1930/) (Soviet Union · 1930 · Name-calling, Scapegoating). Content note: Soviet collectivisation poster showing priests and kulaks as small caricatured figures being pushed out.
- [Bezbozhnik No. 19, October 1930: letter from the Mother of God (cover)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bezbozhnik-barrel-organ-kolkhoz-1930/) (Soviet Union · Oct 1930 · Name-calling). Content note: Soviet anti-religious caricature of clergy as a barrel-organ grinder with a parrot.
- [Suomen armeijan sotilaat! (Soldiers of the Finnish Army!): Soviet leaflet signed by named Finnish prisoners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomen-armeijan-sotilaat-1939/) (Soviet Union · 1939 · Testimonial, Scapegoating)
- [Kõik NSV Liidu Ülemnõukogu valimistele! (Everyone to the USSR Supreme Soviet Elections!): Tallinn sweet wrapper](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kompvekipaber-ulemnoukogu-valimised-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Suomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-hitler-ponnahduslauta-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Suomalaiset sotavangit sotilastovereilleen (Finnish prisoners of war to their fellow soldiers): Soviet leaflet with seven named prisoners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomalaiset-sotavangit-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Testimonial, Scapegoating)
- [Suomalaiset sotilaat! (Finnish soldiers!): Soviet leaflet on a 'fratricidal war' and German masters](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomalaiset-sotilaat-veljestapposota-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [Suomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomen-mies-hitler-death-notices-1941/) (Soviet Union · 1941 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating)
- [12. janvārī visi pie vēlēšanu urnām (On 12 January, everyone to the ballot boxes), Riga magazine spread on the USSR Supreme Soviet election, 1941](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/latvian-ssr-ussr-election-spread-1941/) (Soviet Union · Jan 1941 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Stalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, June 23, 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stalinskoe-znamya-molotov-speech-1941/) (Soviet Union · Jun 23, 1941 · Glittering generalities, Card stacking)
- [Muscovites at TASS Window No. 5, 'What Hitler Wants' (Chego Gitler khochet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-hitler-wants-tass-window-1941/) (Soviet Union · Jul 1941 · Fear appeal). Content note: Caricature of Hitler with a swastika.
- ['Kiitos tov. Stalinille onnellisesta lapsuudesta!' (Thanks to Comrade Stalin for a happy childhood): banner over a hut door, Vidlitsa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kiitos-tov-stalinille-vidlitsa-1941/) (Soviet Union · Sep 12, 1941 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Komsomolskaya Pravda, daily edition, front page (Moscow, December 9, 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/komsomolskaya-pravda-front-page-1941-12-09/) (Soviet Union · Dec 9, 1941 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [Komsomolskaya Pravda, daily edition, page 4 article (Moscow, December 9, 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/komsomolskaya-pravda-voina-na-tikhom-okeane-1941/) (Soviet Union · Dec 9, 1941 · Card stacking)
- [Убей фашиста-изувера! \[Kill the fascist brute!\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-kill-the-fascist-brute-deni-1942/) (Soviet Union · 1942 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Soviet wartime poster showing a woman's body with a noose around her neck beside a dehumanising caricature of a German soldier.
- [Lietuvos darbo žmonės! Lietuviai! (Working People of Lithuania! Lithuanians!): Soviet May Day leaflet for German-occupied Lithuania](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-lietuvos-darbo-zmones-1942/) (Soviet Union · 1942 · Name-calling, Bandwagon, Fear appeal)
- [Suomalainen sotilas! (Finnish Soldier!): Soviet safe-conduct leaflet, Continuation War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomalainen-sotilas-1942/) (Soviet Union · 1942 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating)
- [Воин Красной Армии, спаси! \[Red Army warrior, save!\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-warrior-of-the-red-army-save-koretsky-1942/) (Soviet Union · 1942 · Fear appeal, Outrage bait)
- [Komsomolskaya Pravda, 4 July 1942: 'Master of the Ram' (Master tarana), front-page profile of pilot Aleksey Khlobystov](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/komsomolskaya-pravda-master-of-the-ram-1942/) (Soviet Union · Jul 4, 1942 · Transfer)
- [Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! \[For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes!\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-for-the-motherlands-sake-go-forward-heroes-toidze-1943/) (Soviet Union · 1943 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Soldat roman! (leaflet to Romanian troops in the Crimea, 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-soldat-roman-adio-crimeia-1944/) (Soviet Union · 1944 · Fear appeal)
- [Tegyvuoja TSRS tautų broliškoji sąjunga ir nesugriaunamoji draugystė! (Long live the fraternal union of the peoples of the USSR), Lithuanian SSR poster, 1946](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tsrs-tautu-broliskoji-sajunga-lithuanian-ssr-1946/) (Soviet Union · 1946 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Aukštaičių kova, Nr. 2, 27 September 1949 (Lithuanian partisan underground journal, cover)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aukstaiciu-kova-no2-partisan-1949/) (Soviet Union · Sep 27, 1949 · Transfer)
- [Elagu suur Stalin, võitnud sotsialismi konstitutsiooni looja! (Long live great Stalin), Estonian SSR poster, 1950](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elagu-suur-stalin-estonian-ssr-1950/) (Soviet Union · 1950 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [TASS International Service, 'Occupation Progress', broadcast (Moscow, August 22, 1968; FBIS transcript)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-occupation-progress-radio-moscow-1968/) (Soviet Union · Aug 22, 1968 · Name-calling, Bandwagon, Euphemism / doublespeak)
- ["1870 1970": Lenin centenary decoration on Palace Square, Leningrad](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/leningrad-lenin-centenary-palace-square-1970/) (Soviet Union · 1970 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- [Giant Lenin portrait hung in the main gate of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), Moscow](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vdnkh-lenin-portrait-main-gate-1971/) (Soviet Union · 1971 · Transfer)
- ["Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-kpss-rooftop-slogan-1975/) (Soviet Union · 1975 · Glittering generalities)
- [Slogan banners at a rally on Lenin Square, Gomel: "Слава КПСС!" (Glory to the CPSU!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gomel-october-revolution-60th-rally-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Glittering generalities)
- ["БАМ — стройка всенародная" (BAM, a construction of the whole people): Lenin portrait and union-republic emblem board, Ust-Ilimsk](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-bam-vsenarodnaya-board-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Bandwagon, Transfer)
- [Row of agitation boards on a construction site, Ust-Ilimsk: "Делу Ленина верны!" (Loyal to Lenin's cause!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ust-ilimsk-construction-site-agitation-boards-1977/) (Soviet Union · 1977 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [TASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-statement-unidentified-intruder-kal007-1983/) (Soviet Union · Sep 6, 1983 · Card stacking, Whataboutism). Content note: Soviet state-agency statement on a civilian airliner shot down with 269 people aboard; the text calls the flight a 'pre-planned act' and omits its destruction.
- [Bilingual banner "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship" on a Moscow house of culture, XII World Festival of Youth and Students](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/moscow-vit-1985-hungarian-club-antiimperialist-banner/) (Soviet Union · 1985 · Glittering generalities)
- [Multilingual banners at the Artek international Pioneer camp, Gurzuf: "Für antiimperialistischen Frieden und Freundschaft"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/artek-international-pioneer-banners-1986/) (Soviet Union · 1986 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Radio Moscow World Service on the Chernobyl accident and U.S. reports, FBIS Daily Report, 1 May 1986](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-moscow-chernobyl-us-reports-1986/) (Soviet Union · May 1, 1986 · Limited hangout, Whataboutism). Content note: Soviet radio commentary on the Chernobyl disaster that reports two deaths and attributes Western coverage to an 'order'; later assessments recorded far larger casualties.
- [Дым, в котором мы живём (The Smoke in Which We Live)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dym-v-kotorom-my-zhivyom-1988/) (Soviet Union · 1988 · Fear appeal, Transfer)
- [24. veebruaril valite vabaduse: Eesti Kongress (On 24 February choose freedom: Estonian Congress), election poster, 1990](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eesti-kongress-valite-vabaduse-1990/) (Soviet Union · Feb 1990 · Glittering generalities)