Content note: Shows a hanged civilian figure and a burning village as depicted in the 1941 Soviet poster. This object is shown as it was published. Why
The Enemy Shall Never Escape Our Wrath (reproduced from a Soviet war poster by Russian War Relief, Inc.)
A bearded man with a rifle, bayonet and cartridge belt, and a woman behind him, stand before a burning village with a hanged figure on a tree. The tell is the staged atrocity (fire, hanging) paired with a single prescribed response, armed vengeance, under the title 'wrath'. The credit line states that the sheet is a US reproduction of a Soviet poster.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet war poster of 1941 as captioned, reproduced by Russian War Relief, Inc. (United States); original artist and Soviet issuer not named on the sheet
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (Soviet 1941 original, US reproduction)
Soviet poster, 1941, reproduced by Russian War Relief Inc., National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-882.
Text on the object
THE ENEMY SHALL NEVER ESCAPE OUR WRATH REPRODUCED FROM SOVIET WAR POSTER 1941 · BY RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF, INC.
