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
- Made by
- Hungarian Soviet Republic (Red Army mobilisation, spring-summer 1919); artist Róbert Berény, printed by Pósner, Budapest
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Leader
- Bela Kun
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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
FEGYVERBE! FEGYVERBE! Berény O.P.B. POSNER BUDAPEST
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.
