This Man Is Your Friend: Russian. He Fights for Freedom
A smiling Red Army soldier with a rifle on his shoulder is introduced to American viewers as 'your friend' who 'fights for freedom.' The virtue word does the work that a description of the ally's political system would otherwise have to do, and the friendly face transfers the warmth of personal friendship onto a wartime alliance with the Soviet state.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23988.
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
This man is your FRIEND Russian He fights for FREEDOM ★ ★ ★ For additional copies write to Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C. . . . Specify GPO Jacket No. 455915. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O
