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title: 'Make our men as fit as our machines: regular physical check-ups with blood tests'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/make-our-men-as-fit-as-our-machines-karsakov-1941/
description: Large stylised blue male torso with the circulatory system drawn in white lines and labelled, two small figures in white with a stethoscope and a syringe
section: Collection
---

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# Make our men as fit as our machines: regular physical check-ups with blood tests

Large stylised blue male torso with the circulatory system drawn in white lines and labelled, two small figures in white with a stethoscope and a syringe standing on it. The headline likens the soldier's body to a machine in need of upkeep, carrying the idea of machine maintenance over to health checks (transfer), above a banner urging regular check-ups with blood tests.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
make our men
as fit as our
machines

regular physical check-ups... with blood tests

[signature:] KARSAKOV
UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
V.D.14

(anatomical labels in the diagram:) INTERNAL JUGULAR; RIGHT INNOMINATE VEIN; LEFT INNOMINATE VEIN; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; ARCH OF AORTA; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; RIGHT PULMONARY ARTERY; INFERIOR VENA CAVA; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CEPHALIC; [illegible partial label]
```

Anatomical labels are small white lettering on the torso; two are partly hidden behind the figures.

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