---
title: Заём свободы. Война до победы (Liberty Loan. War until Victory)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zaem-svobody-voina-do-pobedy-1917/
description: A shouting soldier unfurls a red banner reading 'War until victory' under the heading 'Liberty Loan'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

[![Заём свободы. Война до победы (Liberty Loan. War until Victory)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zaem-svobody-voina-do-pobedy-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zaem-svobody-voina-do-pobedy-1917.jpg)

# Заём свободы. Война до победы (Liberty Loan. War until Victory)

A shouting soldier unfurls a red banner reading 'War until victory' under the heading 'Liberty Loan'. The red flag of the February Revolution, a symbol of the new freedom, is carried for continuing the war, and the word 'liberty' names what is in fact a 5 percent government war bond.

- **Date:** 1917
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Russian Provisional Government's Liberty Loan campaign (printed by F. Zlotnikov and L. Volk, Petrograd); P. Buchkin
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=russia)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Russian Provisional Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=russian-provisional-government)
- **Leader:** [Georgy Lvov](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=georgy-lvov)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2005691299/), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931) 1917. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-12688.

## Text on the object

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

```
ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ

ВОЙНА ДО ПОБѢДЫ

[illegible — small artist signature, bottom left]
```

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

```
LIBERTY LOAN

WAR UNTIL VICTORY

[illegible]
```

Spelling follows pre-1918 Russian orthography as printed (hard sign Ъ at the end of ЗАЕМЪ; yat Ѣ in ПОБѢДЫ). A signature in the lower-left corner of the image, cited elsewhere as 'P. Buchkin, 1917', is too small and faint in this scan to transcribe with confidence and is marked [illegible] rather than guessed.

[← Das ist der Weg zum Frieden, die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne Kriegsanleihe! (That Is the Way to Peace, the Enemies Want It So! Therefore Subscribe to the War Loan!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/weg-zum-frieden-1917/) [Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe! Živnostenská Banka Filiale in Wien (Subscribe to the 7th War Loan! Živnostenská Banka, Vienna Branch) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zivnostenska-banka-7-kriegsanleihe-1917/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (0313 · Glittering generalities)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)
- [Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/queens-proclamation-to-the-people-of-india-1858/) (Nov 1, 1858 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating)
- [The Great Battle of Ansong Ford: The Valor of Captain Matsuzaki](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ansong-ford-toshikata-1894/) (1894 · Glittering generalities)
- ['The Congress Cross or "Swastik"' (Pickings from the Hindi Punch, Bombay, February 1896)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hindi-punch-congress-swastik-1896/) (Feb 1896 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Un combate en el río Zapote (A Fight on the Zapote River), Blanco y Negro](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-combate-en-el-rio-zapote-1898/) (Jul 9, 1898 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)