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title: '''Fortune is always on the side of the brave'' (P. I. Bagration) Russian Ministry of Defence poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/schaste-na-storone-otvazhnogo-bagration-mod-poster-2022/
description: 'Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a masked soldier in helmet with a night-vision mount stands in shadow with a rifle, under the quotation…'
section: Collection
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# 'Fortune is always on the side of the brave' (P. I. Bagration) Russian Ministry of Defence poster

Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a masked soldier in helmet with a night-vision mount stands in shadow with a rifle, under the quotation 'Fortune is always on the side of the brave' credited to P. I. Bagration. The tells are the named historical commander as voucher and the transfer of his prestige to a present-day soldier; the poster gives no source for the quotation.

## Text on the object

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

```
«СЧАСТЬЕ
ВСЕГДА
НА СТОРОНЕ
ОТВАЖНОГО»
П.И. БАГРАТИОН
```

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

```
"FORTUNE
IS ALWAYS
ON THE SIDE
OF THE BRAVE"
P. I. BAGRATION
```

White text over the lower half of a dark photograph; the attribution line is smaller than the quotation. No other text is visible.

[← 'Liquidation of the threat' Russian Ministry of Defence poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/likvidatsiya-ugrozy-mod-poster-2022/) ['Fidelity and devotion are not just words' Russian Ministry of Defence poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vernost-i-predannost-mod-poster-2022/)

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