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).
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea (issuer not named on the sheet; attributed by the Marine Corps Archives)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Kim Jong Un
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections, David P. Bigler Collection COLL/31503, via Flickr), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 2.0 (USMC Archives photograph, per Commons file page); underlying print's own rights not separately established
USMC Archives (Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections, Quantico), David P. Bigler Collection COLL/31503, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons; downscaled.
Text on the object
[caption below the portrait] 쏘베트 사회주의 공화국 련맹 내각수상 쓰딸린 대원수
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.
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