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title: '쏘베트 사회주의 공화국 련맹 내각수상 쓰딸린 대원수 (Stalin, Generalissimo): North Korean portrait broadside, circa 1951'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-korean-stalin-broadside-1951/
description: 'Single-sheet portrait broadside printed in blue halftone on orange-tan paper: a head-and-shoulders photograph of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in uniform…'
section: Collection
---

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# 쏘베트 사회주의 공화국 련맹 내각수상 쓰딸린 대원수 (Stalin, Generalissimo): North Korean portrait broadside, circa 1951

Single-sheet portrait broadside printed in blue halftone on orange-tan paper: a head-and-shoulders photograph of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in uniform with a gold-star medal on the breast, and a two-line Korean caption naming him as head of the Soviet government and 'Generalissimo'. There is no slogan, issuer or date on the sheet; it is filed as a North Korean wartime item by the Marine Corps Archives. The tell: the sheet argues nothing; it displays a foreign leader's rank and honorifics as prestige for the cause it is posted for (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
[caption below the portrait]
쏘베트 사회주의 공화국 련맹
내각수상 쓰딸린 대원수
```

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

```
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Chairman of the Council of Ministers [literally 'Cabinet Premier'] Stalin, Generalissimo
```

Read from the 960 px image; the two caption lines are clear. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. The portrait carries no other printed text.

[← Some People Wonder! (Believe it or not, these are POW's!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kpa-cpv-some-people-wonder-pow-leaflet-1951/) [行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-moving-vehicles-target-leaflet-8526-1951/)

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