---
title: '''Fidelity and devotion are not just words'' Russian Ministry of Defence poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vernost-i-predannost-mod-poster-2022/
description: 'Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a masked soldier in helmet and combat kit sits with a rifle across his knees, beside the words ''Fidelity and…'
section: Collection
---

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# 'Fidelity and devotion are not just words' Russian Ministry of Defence poster

Poster from the Russian Ministry of Defence: a masked soldier in helmet and combat kit sits with a rifle across his knees, beside the words 'Fidelity and devotion are not just words'. The tell is the virtue vocabulary. 'Fidelity' and 'devotion' are declared to be more than words, but no deed, object or testable claim is attached to them.

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ВЕРНОСТЬ И
ПРЕДАННОСТЬ —
НЕ ПРОСТО
СЛОВА
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
FIDELITY AND
DEVOTION —
NOT JUST
WORDS
```

Large black text on a white field beside a cut-out photograph of the soldier; no other text is visible.

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