Content note: Caricature of Hitler with a swastika. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Muscovites at TASS Window No. 5, 'What Hitler Wants' (Chego Gitler khochet)
A crowd, a Red Army officer among them, reads TASS Window No. 5 in a shop window on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow, weeks after the German invasion. The stencilled poster, headed 'What Hitler wants', sets out in four numbered cartoon panels what a German victory would bring, with Hitler drawn in caricature wearing a swastika, so the viewer is shown the threat rather than told about it.
- Date
- July 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- TASS Window studio (Okna TASS), Moscow; poster by Mikhail Cheremnykh
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Moscow Main Archive via mos.ru), retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (Moscow city government, mos.ru)
Photo: A. V. Ustinov, July 1941. Moscow Main Archive (Glavarkhiv Moskvy), mos.ru, CC BY 4.0.
Text on the object
ОКНО ТАСС №5 ЧЕГО ГИТЛЕР ХОЧЕТ [illegible — small captions beneath the four cartoon panels] [A separate window visible at the left edge of the photograph:] РАБОТАЙ БЫСТРО, ЧЕТКО, ЛОВКО
TASS WINDOW No. 5 WHAT HITLER WANTS [illegible] [A separate window visible at the left edge of the photograph:] WORK FAST, PRECISELY, DEFTLY
The numbered captions under each of TASS Window No. 5's four cartoon panels are too small to read reliably in this photograph and are not transcribed, consistent with this entry's own notes field. 'Work fast, precisely, deftly' is the heading of the separate TASS Window No. 11 visible at the left edge of the same street-corner photograph, not part of Window No. 5.
