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title: 'Suomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomen-mies-hitler-death-notices-1941/
description: 'A Finnish-language Soviet leaflet built as a photomontage: a soldier with a woman and child is gripped by a sleeve with a swastika armband marked…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Suomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-leaflet-suomen-mies-hitler-death-notices-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-leaflet-suomen-mies-hitler-death-notices-1941.jpg)

# Suomen mies! (Man of Finland!): Soviet leaflet with a Hitler-armband arm pushing a soldier past death notices

A Finnish-language Soviet leaflet built as a photomontage: a soldier with a woman and child is gripped by a sleeve with a swastika armband marked 'HITLER', set against a wall of black-bordered death notices. The tells are the staged risk to the family and the single named author of the harm, the question 'To die for Hitler's slave command?' with no alternative weighed.

## Text on the object

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

```
Suomen mies!

[Death notices on the wall, names as legible:] Eino Jooseppi Kyllästinen; Eino Kiuru; Roland'imme [sic]; Johan Olai Haakana [partly illegible]; Heikki Karhu; Kauko Kalervo Porkkela; Osmo Reijas Iivari Virta; Viljo Jalmari Lindqvist; Aimo A[illegible] Penttilä; Torsten Joh[illegible]; [illegible] Reinhold Strömberg; [illegible] Rämö; Uuno Armas Sinkko; Onni Ilmari Hänninen; [remaining notice text illegible]

HITLER (on the armband)

HITLERIN ORJAKOMENNON PUOLESTAKO KUOLEMAAN?
```

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

```
Man of Finland!

[Death notices on the wall, names as legible:] Eino Jooseppi Kyllästinen; Eino Kiuru; Roland'imme [sic]; Johan Olai Haakana [partly illegible]; Heikki Karhu; Kauko Kalervo Porkkela; Osmo Reijas Iivari Virta; Viljo Jalmari Lindqvist; Aimo A[illegible] Penttilä; Torsten Joh[illegible]; [illegible] Reinhold Strömberg; [illegible] Rämö; Uuno Armas Sinkko; Onni Ilmari Hänninen; [remaining notice text illegible]

HITLER (on the armband)

TO DIE FOR HITLER'S SLAVE COMMAND?
```

Read from a 742 px by 1200 px copy. The death-notice wall is small print and only the names in the larger type were read; the personal names are transcribed as printed and 'Roland'imme' is as it appears. The leaflet's reverse side is not in this image. 'Orjakomento' is rendered 'slave command'.

[← Suomalaiset sotilaat! (Finnish soldiers!): Soviet leaflet on a 'fratricidal war' and German masters](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomalaiset-sotilaat-veljestapposota-1941/) ['Stop useless resistance' (Japanese leaflet to the Hong Kong garrison) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-useless-resistance-hong-kong-leaflet-1941/)

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