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title: 'Krokodil No. 41 (151), October 1925: Germany Is Hiring Herself Out (cover, Radakov)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-germany-hires-out-radakov-1925/
description: 'Magazine cover: a worn woman in an apron, a purse marked with an Iron Cross on her arm, stands before a complacent seated man with a pipe, a woman in red…'
section: Collection
---

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# Krokodil No. 41 (151), October 1925: Germany Is Hiring Herself Out (cover, Radakov)

Magazine cover: a worn woman in an apron, a purse marked with an Iron Cross on her arm, stands before a complacent seated man with a pipe, a woman in red with a lorgnette and a bulldog. The mistress tells her she will be the household's only maid and may live 'in the Polish corridor'. Casting the German state as a servant taken on by the Western powers is the name-calling tell: the label does the argument.

## Text on the object

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

```
ГОД ИЗДАНИЯ ЧЕТВЕРТЫЙ.
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
МОСКВА, ОКТЯБРЬ 1925 г.
№ 41 (151)
Цена 12 коп.
КРОКОДИЛ
Рис. А. Радакова.
ГЕРМАНИЯ НАНИМАЕТСЯ.
— Вы, милая, будете у нас одной прислугой. Старайтесь — и мы позволим вам жить в польском коридоре.
```

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

```
FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
MOSCOW, OCTOBER 1925
No. 41 (151)
Price 12 kop.
CROCODILE
Drawing by A. Radakov.
GERMANY IS HIRING HERSELF OUT.
— You, my dear, will be our only servant. Do your best and we will let you live in the Polish corridor.
```

Literal translation by Claude (machine translation, not fluent-reader verified). A handwritten numeral at top left is a library annotation and is not transcribed.

[← 東江陳軍餉械 英國 (Chen's East River Army: Pay and Arms, Britain), Canton newspaper cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/east-river-chen-army-pay-arms-canton-1925/) [Krokodil No. 48 (158), December 1925: 1905, A Step to October (cover, Radakov) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-step-to-october-1905-radakov-1925/)

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