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title: Fegyverbe! Fegyverbe! (To Arms! To Arms!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fegyverbe-hungarian-soviet-1919/
description: A Hungarian Soviet Republic poster fills the frame with a shouting soldier in a red-banded cap, one clenched fist raised and the other hauling a huge red…
section: Collection
---

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[![Fegyverbe! Fegyverbe! (To Arms! To Arms!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fegyverbe-hungarian-soviet-1919.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fegyverbe-hungarian-soviet-1919.png)

# Fegyverbe! Fegyverbe! (To Arms! To Arms!)

A Hungarian Soviet Republic poster fills the frame with a shouting soldier in a red-banded cap, one clenched fist raised and the other hauling a huge red banner across the top, over the command 'To arms! To arms!' The tell is the banner: the red flag occupies more of the sheet than any stated reason, so the symbol, not an argument, carries the call to enlist.

- **Date:** 1919
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Hungarian Soviet Republic (Red Army mobilisation, spring-summer 1919); artist Róbert Berény, printed by Pósner, Budapest
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Leader:** [Bela Kun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=bela-kun)
- **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:** [Hungarian Soviet Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=hungarian-soviet-republic)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fegyverbe!.png), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (PD-old-70-1923 per Wikimedia Commons; published 1919) Róbert Berény, 1919; via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
FEGYVERBE!
FEGYVERBE!

Berény
O.P.B.
POSNER BUDAPEST
```

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

```
TO ARMS!
TO ARMS!

Berény [artist's signature]
O.P.B. [meaning not determined]
Posner, Budapest [printer]
```

The small print at the bottom edges is partly legible at this resolution; 'O.P.B.' and the printer line are best readings.

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