--- title: Stalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, June 23, 1941) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stalinskoe-znamya-molotov-speech-1941/ description: Front page of a Ryazan Party-and-Soviet daily, Monday 23 June 1941, the day after the German attack. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Stalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, 1941-06-23)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stalinskoe-znamya-molotov-speech-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/stalinskoe-znamya-molotov-speech-1941.jpg) # Stalinskoe znamya, daily edition, front page (Ryazan, June 23, 1941) Front page of a Ryazan Party-and-Soviet daily, Monday 23 June 1941, the day after the German attack. The whole upper half is the full text of Molotov's radio address of 22 June 1941, with his portrait, a slogan strapline quoting it ('The whole of our people must now be united and as one as never before'), and two decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (martial law; mobilisation). The address is the Soviet government's first public statement of the invasion; the page carries no other news. ## Text on the object Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! СТАЛИНСКОЕ ЗНАМЯ Орган Рязанского обкома и горкома ВКП(б), областного и городского Советов депутатов трудящихся. № 146 (6977) Понедельник, 23 июня 1941 г. ЦЕНА 15 КОП. Весь наш народ теперь должен быть сплочен и един, как никогда. Каждый из нас должен требовать от себя и от других дисциплины, организованности, самоотверженности, достойной настоящего советокого патриота, чтобы обеспечить все нужды Красной Армии, флота и авиации, чтобы обеспечить победу над врагом. (Из выступления по радио Заместителя Председателя Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР и Народного Комиссара Иностранных Дел товарища В. М. Молотова 22 июня 1941 года). Выступление по радио Заместителя Председателя Совета Народных Комиссаров Союза ССР и Народного Комиссара Иностранных Дел тов. В. М. МОЛОТОВА 22 июня 1941 года Граждане и гражданки Советского Союза! Советское правительство и его глава товарищ Сталин поручили мне сделать следующее заявление: Сегодня, в 4 часа утра, без предъявления каких-либо претензий к Советскому Союзу, без объявления войны, германские войска напали на нашу страну, атаковали наши границы во многих местах и подвергли бомбежке со своих самолетов наши города — Житомир, Киев, Севастополь, Каунас и некоторые другие, причем убито и ранено более двухсот человек. [...] Теперь, когда нападение на Советский Союз уже совершилось, Советским правительством дан нашим войскам приказ — отбить разбойничье нападение и изгнать германские войска с территории нашей родины. [...] Наше дело правое. Враг будет разбит. Победа будет за нами. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О военном положении Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О мобилизации военнообязанных по Ленинградскому, Прибалтийскому особому, Западному особому, Киевскому особому, Одесскому, Харьковскому, Орловскому, Московскому, Архангельскому, Уральскому, Сибирскому, Приволжскому, Северо-Кавказскому и Закавказскому военным округам Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Об объявлении в отдельных местностях СССР военного положения [the rest of the speech and decrees is not transcribed; a column at the lower right, headed 'За большевистскую организованность и дисциплину!', is not transcribed] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Workers of all countries, unite! STALIN'S BANNER Organ of the Ryazan oblast and city committees of the VKP(b), and of the oblast and city Soviets of working people's deputies. No. 146 (6977) Monday, 23 June 1941 PRICE 15 KOP. Our whole people must now be united and as one as never before. Each of us must demand of himself and of others discipline, organisation and self-sacrifice worthy of a true Soviet patriot, to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, navy and air force, to provide victory over the enemy. (From the radio address of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Comrade V. M. Molotov, 22 June 1941.) Radio address of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Comrade V. M. MOLOTOV 22 June 1941 Citizens, men and women of the Soviet Union! The Soviet government and its head, Comrade Stalin, have instructed me to make the following statement: Today at 4 o'clock in the morning, without any claims presented to the Soviet Union, without a declaration of war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders in many places and bombed from their aircraft our cities — Zhitomir, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas and some others, with more than two hundred killed and wounded. [...] Now that the attack on the Soviet Union has already taken place, the Soviet government has given our troops the order to repel the bandit attack and drive the German troops from the territory of our homeland. [...] Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, On martial law Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, On the mobilisation of those liable for military service in the Leningrad, Baltic Special, Western Special, Kiev Special, Odessa, Kharkov, Orël, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Urals, Siberian, Volga, North Caucasus and Transcaucasus military districts Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, On the declaration of martial law in certain localities of the USSR ``` Read from the 150-dpi render of the library PDF page; text in the portions marked [...] and the remaining decree text is not transcribed. The strapline's 'советокого' is as printed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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