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title: Motherland's Salute to the Heroes! (Героям салют Родины!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-motherlands-salute-to-the-heroes-toidze-1939/
description: A woman in red waves a red cloth under the word 'Heroes' with gun barrels, a firework salute and a Kremlin tower behind her.
section: Collection
---

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[![Motherland's Salute to the Heroes!, 1939 Soviet Union poster: A woman in red waves a red cloth under the word 'Heroes'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-motherlands-salute-to-the-heroes-toidze-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-motherlands-salute-to-the-heroes-toidze-1939.jpg)

# Motherland's Salute to the Heroes! (Героям салют Родины!)

A woman in red waves a red cloth under the word 'Heroes' with gun barrels, a firework salute and a Kremlin tower behind her. The tell is the virtue words 'Motherland' and 'Heroes' standing in for any named deed, and the Kremlin tower and red star lending state prestige to the salute.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Героям

САЛЮТ РОДИНЫ !
Motherland's Salute to the Heroes!

[signature:] Ираклий Тоидзе

[Translation: To the Heroes. The Motherland's Salute! (English line as printed.)]
```

[← Suomen armeijan sotilaat! (Soldiers of the Finnish Army!): Soviet leaflet signed by named Finnish prisoners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomen-armeijan-sotilaat-1939/) [My Daddy is a Hero! And You? (Мой папа герой! А ты?) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-my-daddy-is-a-hero-and-you-1939/)

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