![Воин Красной Армии, спаси! [Red Army warrior, save!], 1942 Soviet Union poster: A photomontage shows a woman clutching](../images/soviet-warrior-of-the-red-army-save-koretsky-1942.jpg)
Воин Красной Армии, спаси! [Red Army warrior, save!]
A photomontage shows a woman clutching a weeping child while a rifle bayonet marked with a swastika, dripping blood, enters the frame. The fear-appeal tell is the threatened civilians and the blood-stained blade; the outrage tell is the direct address to the soldier to avenge and protect them.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo 'Iskusstvo' (State Publishing House 'Art'), Moscow-Leningrad; artist Viktor Koretsky
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Own forces
- 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)
Viktor Koretsky, published by Iskusstvo, Moscow-Leningrad, 1942. U.S. National Archives, NAID 44268285 (44-PF-881).
Text on the object
ВОИН КРАСНОЙ АРМИИ, СПАСИ! Государственное издательство «ИСКУССТВО» Москва 1942 Ленинград
WARRIOR OF THE RED ARMY, SAVE [US]! State Publishing House "ISKUSSTVO" Moscow 1942 Leningrad
