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title: '"Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-ran-an-den-speck-boot-neubrandenburg-1959/
description: A woman, a man and a village official hold a giant black seven-league boot lettered 'Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!' The slogan runs a…
section: Collection
---

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[!["Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-ran-an-den-speck-boot-neubrandenburg-1959.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-ran-an-den-speck-boot-neubrandenburg-1959.jpg)

# "Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district

A woman, a man and a village official hold a giant black seven-league boot lettered 'Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!' The slogan runs a farm-production pledge drive together with a label for opponents ('militarists'), so a request for more beef, milk and eggs is joined to a political enemy.

## Text on the object

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

```
Ran an den Speck,
jagt die
Militaristen
weg !
```

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

```
Get at the bacon,
chase the
militarists
away!
```

Read from the 800 px image; the text curves along the boot, line breaks as on the object. 'Ran an den Speck' is an idiom (go at it with vigour); the translation is literal.

[← 30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/walking-couple-election-flyer-1959/) [Crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/race-mixing-is-communism-1959/)

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