![Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! [For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes!], 1943 Soviet Union poster: A Red Army soldier](../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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet Union (publisher not printed); artist Irakli Toidze (signed)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the US (Soviet work first published before 27 May 1973)
Irakli Toidze (signed), Soviet Union, c. 1943-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
Во имя Родины вперед богатыри! For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes [signature:] Ираклий Тоидзе
For the Motherland's sake, forward, heroes! For the Motherland's Sake, Go Forward, Heroes (English as printed) [signature:] Irakli Toidze
