Vennad ruttu rahva väkke (Brothers, Hurry into the People's Force)
A sepia recruiting poster bursts with jagged rays around the lettering 'Brothers, hurry into the people's force', with an armoured car above, two aircraft in the sky and a warship below. The force is already pictured as armed and moving, and readers are told to hurry to join it, so momentum is offered as the reason to enlist.
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Estonian Provisional Government (recruiting for the Estonian army in the War of Independence; attribution as given on Wikimedia Commons); artist G. Mamberg (signed)
- Country
- Estonia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Konstantin Pats
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Techniques
- Bandwagon
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (reproduction credited to Eesti Vabadussõda 1918-1920, published 1937), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Estonian poster of 1918, before 1931; Commons: PD-1923; 1937 book is a reproduction)
G. Mamberg / Estonian Provisional Government, 1918; reproduced in Eesti Vabadussõda 1918-1920 (1937), via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Vennad ruttu rahva väkke [signature, vertical at right:] G. MAMBERG
Brothers hurry into the people's force [signature, vertical at right:] G. MAMBERG
Read from the committed book reproduction; 'väkke' is the illative of 'vägi' (force, army).
