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title: Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! [For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes!]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-for-the-motherlands-sake-go-forward-heroes-toidze-1943/
description: A Red Army soldier with a submachine gun and a bayonet-lined rifle rack is backed by a bearded medieval bogatyr warrior with sword and shield.
section: Collection
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[![Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! \[For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes!\], 1943 Soviet Union poster: A Red Army soldier](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-for-the-motherlands-sake-go-forward-heroes-toidze-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-for-the-motherlands-sake-go-forward-heroes-toidze-1943.jpg)

# Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! [For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes!]

A Red Army soldier with a submachine gun and a bayonet-lined rifle rack is backed by a bearded medieval bogatyr warrior with sword and shield, under the headline 'For the Motherland's sake, forward, heroes!'. The epic knight lends the legendary past's prestige to the present soldier (transfer), and 'Motherland' and 'heroes' are virtue words without specifics (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Во имя Родины
вперед богатыри!

For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes

[signature:] Ираклий Тоидзе
```

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

```
For the Motherland's sake,
forward, heroes!

For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes (English as printed)

[signature:] Irakli Toidze
```

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