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
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.
- Date
- 1928
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Soviet state poster publishing (publisher and artist not stated)
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Techniques
- Name-callingScapegoating
- 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 1928, before 1931; Commons: PD-Russia-expired)
Unknown artist, 1928, via goskatalog.ru and Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
КРЕПИ РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫЙ ФРОНТ ЗАЩИТЫ С.С.С.Р. [illegible: small lettering on the placards carried by the lower figures]
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.
