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title: Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-broni-poland-1920/
description: A Polish recruiting poster shows a soldier in an Adrian-pattern helmet lunging forward with a fixed bayonet beneath the command 'To Arms!
section: Collection
---

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[![Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/do-broni-poland-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/do-broni-poland-1920.jpg)

# Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)

A Polish recruiting poster shows a soldier in an Adrian-pattern helmet lunging forward with a fixed bayonet beneath the command 'To Arms! Everyone to the Front,' issued during the Polish-Soviet War mobilization. The blanket 'everyone' framing treats universal enlistment as already underway, so a reader who has not enlisted reads as the outlier rather than the norm.

- **Date:** 1920
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Republic of Poland (military recruitment, Polish-Soviet War); artist unidentified, printed by Kotkowski i Frejlich, Łódź
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Poland](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=poland)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Second Polish Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=second-polish-republic)
- **Leader:** [Jozef Pilsudski](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=jozef-pilsudski)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Recruit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=recruit)
- **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Polish Soviet War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=polish-soviet-war)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Do_broni!_Wszyscy_na_front.jpg), retrieved September 28, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (per Wikimedia Commons) polona.pl

## Text on the object

Original (Polish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
DO BRONI!

WSZYSCY NA FRONT

KOTKOWSKI i FREJLICH w ŁODZI
ZAKŁADY GRAFICZNE   PIOTRK. 91   TELEFON 3-46.-
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
TO ARMS!

EVERYONE TO THE FRONT

Kotkowski and Frejlich, Łódź
Graphic works, Piotrkowska [St.] 91, Telephone 3-46.-
```

The last two lines are the printer's small-print imprint at the bottom of the poster. 'PIOTRK.' is transcribed as printed on the poster (likely an abbreviation of Piotrkowska, a main street in Łódź, for the printer's street address).

[← "Kärntner Volksabstimmung, 10. Oktober 1920" postcard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/carinthian-plebiscite-postcard-1920/) [Красный подарок белому пану (A Red Gift for the White Lord): Soviet Polish-Soviet War poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krasny-podarok-belomu-panu-1920/)

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