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

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.

Date: 1930
Period: Interwar
Made by: Soviet state poster publishing; poster by Vladislav Griffel
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Union
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Soviet Union
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Economy and finance, Labor
Event: First Five Year Plan
Techniques: Name-calling
Regime: Soviet Union under Stalin
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (scan from the Russian state museum catalogue (goskatalog.ru)), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1930, before 1931; Commons: PD-Russia-expired)
Vladislav Griffel, 1930, via goskatalog.ru and Wikimedia Commons.

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.