---
title: '''Liquidation of the threat'' Russian Ministry of Defence poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/likvidatsiya-ugrozy-mod-poster-2022/
description: 'Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a Su-35 fighter seen from above against a large letter V, over the words ''Liquidation of the threat''.'
section: Collection
---

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[!['Liquidation of the threat' Russian Ministry of Defence poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/likvidatsiya-ugrozy-mod-poster-2022.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/likvidatsiya-ugrozy-mod-poster-2022.jpg)

# 'Liquidation of the threat' Russian Ministry of Defence poster

Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a Su-35 fighter seen from above against a large letter V, over the words 'Liquidation of the threat'. The tell is the noun phrase. 'Liquidation' and 'threat' stand in for air strikes and for whoever or whatever is struck, so the poster names no target, no act and no casualty.

## Text on the object

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

```
ЛИКВИДАЦИЯ
УГРОЗЫ
```

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

```
LIQUIDATION
OF THE THREAT
```

Large white text at the foot of the poster; the V behind the aircraft is a graphic letter. The aircraft carries small hull and tail markings that are part of the photograph, not message text.

[← 'Heroes of Z: Our cause is just' Russian Ministry of Defence poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/geroi-z-nashe-delo-pravoe-mod-poster-2022/) ['Fortune is always on the side of the brave' (P. I. Bagration) Russian Ministry of Defence poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/schaste-na-storone-otvazhnogo-bagration-mod-poster-2022/)

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