Westward! (На Запад!)
Helmeted soldiers in winter coats advance firing submachine guns and a rifle, with a fallen soldier and more troops behind, under the slogan 'Westward!'. The tell, closest fit among the listed techniques, is momentum offered in place of a stated claim: the slogan and the surge of the figures present the advance as already under way.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Soviet Union (publisher and artist 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
- 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)
Soviet Union, publisher not printed, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-883.
Text on the object
НА ЗАПАД ! WESTWARD ! [Translation: Westward!]
