---
title: 'Рабочий СССР — на борьбу за пятилетку! (Worker of the USSR: Fight for the Five-Year Plan! Worker of the West: Fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/griffel-five-year-plan-workers-of-the-west-1930/
description: 'Charcoal-and-red drawing: a worker with one arm flung up strides across a globe marked ''USSR'', hauling a red ribbon lettered with the Five-Year Plan…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of a bloated top-hatted capitalist being dragged across a globe by a worker. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Рабочий СССР — на борьбу за пятилетку! (Worker of the USSR: Fight for the Five-Year Plan! Worker of the West: Fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/griffel-five-year-plan-workers-of-the-west-1930.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/griffel-five-year-plan-workers-of-the-west-1930.jpg)

# Рабочий СССР — на борьбу за пятилетку! (Worker of the USSR: Fight for the Five-Year Plan! Worker of the West: Fight for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!)

Charcoal-and-red drawing: a worker with one arm flung up strides across a globe marked 'USSR', hauling a red ribbon lettered with the Five-Year Plan slogan. At the far end of the ribbon a bloated man in a top hat sits slumped on the globe, and a few small figures struggle behind him. The capitalist is drawn as a fat top-hatted figure dragged along against his will, a stock type that works as a label: the name-calling tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
РАБОЧИЙ СССР — НА БОРЬБУ ЗА ПЯТИЛЕТКУ!
РАБОЧИЙ ЗАПАДА — НА БОРЬБУ ЗА ДИКТАТУРУ ПРОЛ[ЕТАРИАТА]!
КРЕПИТЕ ФРОНТ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ РЕВО[ЛЮЦИИ]!

НА ЛЕНТЕ: [illegible: ribbon text including 'ЗА ПЯТИЛЕТКУ']
НА ГЛОБУСЕ: СССР
```

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

```
WORKER OF THE USSR — FIGHT FOR THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN!
WORKER OF THE WEST — FIGHT FOR THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT!
STRENGTHEN THE FRONT OF THE INTERNATIONAL REVOLU[TION]!

ON THE RIBBON: [illegible]
ON THE GLOBE: USSR
```

Square-bracketed letters at the line ends are not on the torn sheet and are completed from the wording on the Commons record; the ribbon text is too small to read at 500 pixels.

[← Graziani, 'Verso il Fezzan' (Tripoli, 1930): title page with Badoglio preface and Virgil motto](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/graziani-verso-il-fezzan-title-page-1930/) [Under the Banner of Lenin, for Socialist Construction (Pod znamenem Lenina za sotsialisticheskoe stroitelstvo) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/klucis-under-the-banner-of-lenin-1930/)

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