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
![Убей фашиста-изувера! [Kill the fascist brute!], 1942 Soviet Union poster: A grotesque, drooling caricature of a German](../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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo 'Iskusstvo' (State Publishing House 'Art'), Moscow-Leningrad; artist Deni (Viktor Deni)
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- 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)
Deni (Viktor Deni), published by Iskusstvo, Moscow-Leningrad, 1942. U.S. National Archives, NAID 44266074 (44-PF-31).
Text on the object
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.
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.
