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.
A 1920 Polish recruiting poster issued by the Republic of Poland during the Polish-Soviet War mobilization, printed by Kotkowski i Frejlich in Łódź, artist unidentified. A soldier in an Adrian-pattern helmet lunges forward with a fixed bayonet beneath the command "To Arms! Everyone to the Front". The record tags bandwagon for the word "everyone", which treats enlistment as already general so that a reader who has not enlisted seems the exception, and fear appeal for the lunging figure. It asks the domestic public to enlist.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1920
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Republic of Poland (military recruitment, Polish-Soviet War); artist unidentified, printed by Kotkowski i Frejlich, Łódź
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Poland
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Second Polish Republic
- Leader
- Jozef Pilsudski
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Polish Soviet War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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.-
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).
