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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet Union (publisher not printed); artist Irakli Toidze (signed); bilingual Russian-English edition
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- 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)
Irakli Toidze (signed), Soviet Union, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-879.
Text on the object
Героям САЛЮТ РОДИНЫ ! Motherland's Salute to the Heroes! [signature:] Ираклий Тоидзе [Translation: To the Heroes. The Motherland's Salute! (English line as printed.)]
