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title: Крепи революционный фронт защиты СССР (Strengthen the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the USSR)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krepi-revolyutsionnyi-front-zashchity-sssr-1928/
description: Giant marching workers in red, one waving a flag, fill the upper two-thirds of the sheet, with factory chimneys behind.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Caricatures of clergy (a mitred bishop, a priest with a rosary, figures with crosses) and top-hatted men as small bloated figures trampled by giant marching workers. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Крепи революционный фронт защиты СССР (Strengthen the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the USSR)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krepi-revolyutsionnyi-front-zashchity-sssr-1928.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krepi-revolyutsionnyi-front-zashchity-sssr-1928.jpg)

# Крепи революционный фронт защиты СССР (Strengthen the Revolutionary Front for the Defence of the USSR)

Giant marching workers in red, one waving a flag, fill the upper two-thirds of the sheet, with factory chimneys behind. Below them, much smaller and pale teal, a crowd of bloated figures in mitres, a priest's hat and top hats, some carrying crosses and a placard, scatter at their feet. Placing bishops, clergy and top-hatted men together as the small enemies the 'front' tramples is the name-calling and scapegoating tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
КРЕПИ
РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫЙ
ФРОНТ
ЗАЩИТЫ
С.С.С.Р.

[illegible: small lettering on the placards carried by the lower figures]
```

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

```
STRENGTHEN
THE REVOLUTIONARY
FRONT
FOR THE DEFENCE
OF THE U.S.S.R.

[illegible]
```

The slogan is set in the large lettering at the top; the small text on the lower placards is not legible.

[← Locarno? Wählt deutschnational! (Locarno? Vote German National!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dnvp-locarno-waehlt-deutschnational-1928/) [School copybook 'La Marina Italiana (Manovre navali del 1928)' with Mussolini and a printed slogan →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/quaderno-marina-mussolini-manovre-navali-1928/)

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- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
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- [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)