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

'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
Made by
Russian Ministry of Defence (z.mil.ru 'special military operation' posters section)
Region
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country
Russia
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Military
Regime
Putin Government
Leader
Vladimir Putin
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
War and the military, Home front
Event
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Techniques
TransferGlittering generalities
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Wikimedia Commons (Russian Ministry of Defence, z.mil.ru), 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.