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title: Убей фашиста-изувера! [Kill the fascist brute!]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-kill-the-fascist-brute-deni-1942/
description: A grotesque, drooling caricature of a German officer, with a swastika and death's-head on his cap, leers over a dead woman with a noose around her neck.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Soviet wartime poster showing a woman's body with a noose around her neck beside a dehumanising caricature of a German soldier. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Убей фашиста-изувера! \[Kill the fascist brute!\], 1942 Soviet Union poster: A grotesque, drooling caricature of a German](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-kill-the-fascist-brute-deni-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-kill-the-fascist-brute-deni-1942.jpg)

# Убей фашиста-изувера! [Kill the fascist brute!]

A grotesque, drooling caricature of a German officer, with a swastika and death's-head on his cap, leers over a dead woman with a noose around her neck. The headline orders the viewer to kill the 'fascist brute'; the label and the staged atrocity (name-calling) and the harm shown to a woman (fear-appeal) stand in for any evidence about a particular event.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
УБЕЙ ФАШИСТА-ИЗУВЕРА!

[signature:] ДЕНИ 42 г.
[pencil note:] [illegible]

1-я Образцовая тип. Огиза РСФСР треста «Полиграфкнига».
Москва, Валовая, 28.
Заказ № 2210.
Государственное издательство «ИСКУССТВО»
Москва 1942 Ленинград
Редактор Е. Поволоцкая.
Л78159 от 20/VIII 1942 г.
Изд. № 5838. Объем 1/8 п. л. Тираж 150 000 экз. Цена 35 коп.
```

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

```
KILL THE FASCIST BRUTE!

[signature:] DENI, 1942
[pencil note:] [illegible]

1st Model Printing House of OGIZ RSFSR, of the 'Poligrafkniga' trust.
Moscow, Valovaya, 28.
Order No. 2210.
State Publishing House 'ISKUSSTVO' (Art)
Moscow 1942 Leningrad
Editor E. Povolotskaya.
L78159 of 20 August 1942.
Publication No. 5838. Size 1/8 printed sheet. Print run 150,000 copies. Price 35 kopecks.
```

[← Someone Talked!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/someone-talked-1942/) [Lietuvos darbo žmonės! Lietuviai! (Working People of Lithuania! Lithuanians!): Soviet May Day leaflet for German-occupied Lithuania →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-lietuvos-darbo-zmones-1942/)

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