My Daddy is a Hero! And You? (Мой папа герой! А ты?)
A small child points at her own mouth while holding a framed portrait of a soldier with a star decoration; a red panel reads 'Heroes of the Patriotic War' with an order to Red Army men. The tell is the child and family portrait used to turn the soldier's decoration into a personal challenge, 'And you?', with 'hero' as the only quality named.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet Union (publisher not printed); 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
Soviet Union, publisher not printed, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-880.
Text on the object
ГЕРОИ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ ВОИНЫ КРАСНОЙ АРМИИ! НЕ ДАВАЙТЕ ВРАГУ ПЕРЕДЫШКИ! БЕСПОЩАДНО ИСТРЕБЛЯЙТЕ ФАШИСТ- СКИХ РАЗБОЙНИКОВ! ОСВОБОЖДАЙТЕ ОТ ОККУПАНТОВ РОДНУЮ ЗЕМЛЮ! Мой папа герой! А ТЫ? MY Daddy Is a Hero! AND YOU? [Translation: Heroes of the Patriotic War. Red Army men! Give the enemy no respite! Ruthlessly exterminate the fascist brigands! Free your native land from the occupiers! My daddy is a hero! And you?]
