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.
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet forces (Red Army propaganda, as catalogued by the Finnish archive); no issuing unit is printed on the sheet
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Continuation War
- Techniques
- Fear appealScapegoating
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Museovirasto (Finnish Heritage Agency), History Picture Collection, via Finna, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (holding institution's Finna record); anonymous wartime print
Museovirasto (Finnish Heritage Agency), Historian kuvakokoelma HK19680514:27-30, CC BY 4.0.
Text on the object
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?
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'.
