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title: '''Heroes of Z: Our cause is just'' Russian Ministry of Defence poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/geroi-z-nashe-delo-pravoe-mod-poster-2022/
description: 'Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a helmeted, masked soldier in profile with a rifle beside the words ''Heroes of Z: Our cause is just''.'
section: Collection
---

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# 'Heroes of Z: Our cause is just' Russian Ministry of Defence poster

Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a helmeted, masked soldier in profile with a rifle beside the words 'Heroes of Z: Our cause is just'. The tells are the borrowed wording, since 'Our cause is just' opens Molotov's radio address of 22 June 1941, and the virtue claim itself, which is asserted on the poster rather than argued.

- **Date:** 2022
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Russian Ministry of Defence (z.mil.ru 'special military operation' posters section)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=russia)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military)
- **Regime:** [Putin Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=putin-government)
- **Leader:** [Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=vladimir-putin)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [Russian Invasion of Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=russian-invasion-of-ukraine)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Regime:** [Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/)
- **Leader:** [Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/#vladimir-putin)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Russian Ministry of Defence, z.mil.ru)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlakatZ-Plakat70.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY 4.0 (mil.ru terms of use, via Commons) Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (mil.ru), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
ГЕРОИ Z
НАШЕ
ДЕЛО
ПРАВОЕ
```

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

```
HEROES OF Z
OUR
CAUSE
IS JUST
```

Large text on a dark photograph of a soldier; no other text is visible.

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