Soviet Union WW2 Propaganda: In 1938, after the United Kingdom and France had concluded the Munich Agreement with Germany, the USSR dealt with the Nazis as well, both militarily and economically during extensive talks. The two countries concluded the German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact and the German–Soviet Commercial Agreement. The nonaggression pact made possible Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, and eastern Poland. In late November of the same year, unable to coerce the Republic of Finland by diplomatic means into moving its border 25 kilometres (16 mi) back from Leningrad, Joseph Stalin ordered the invasion of Finland.
In the east, the Soviet military won several decisive victories during border clashes with the Japanese Empire in 1938 and 1939. However, in April 1941, USSR signed the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact with the Empire of Japan, recognizing the territorial integrity of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state.
Although it has been debated whether the Soviet Union intended to invade Germany once it was strong enough, Germany itself broke the treaty and invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, starting what was known in the USSR as the “Great Patriotic War”. The Red Army stopped the seemingly invincible German Army at the Battle of Moscow, aided by an unusually harsh winter. The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted from late 1942 to early 1943, dealt a severe blow to the Germans from which they never fully recovered and became a turning point of the war. After Stalingrad, Soviet forces drove through Eastern Europe to Berlin before Germany surrendered in 1945. The German Army suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. (Wikipedia)
Soviet Union WW2 Propaganda Posters:
Recruiting:
1941 Be a hero!
1941 Join the rows of the people’s Territorial Army!
1941 Our forces are numberless
1941 Our land is known by bogatyrs (epic heroes)
1941 Proud of my son!
1941 The Motherland Calls
1943 For Mother Russia!
Fighting And Morale:
1941 Will not give up the attainments of October!
1941 We shall defend Moscow!
1941 By steel avalanche we shall crush an enemy!
1941 Expose enemy under any mask
1941 Glory to the heroes of World War II! Glory to the Stalin’s Falcons!
1941 Help the Red Army to catch spies
1941 On the ground and the above ground with a loop will foes be bound!
1941 Partisans, beat the enemy without mercy!
1941 Ramming is a weapon of heroes! Glory to the Stalin’s Falcons – a suppressor of Fascist Vultures.
1941 Ruthlessly crush and destroy the enemy
1941 The heroic images of our ancestors should inspire you in this war!
1941 The people’s revenge the foe won’t escape!
1942 A soldier of the Red Army! Do not give your beloved on the shame and ignominy by Hitler’s soldiers.
1942 Warrior, answer Motherland with victory!
1942 Beat them to death!
1942 Blood for blood. Death for death
1942 Death to the German invaders!
1942 Everyone, master skis!
1942 For the Motherland!
1942 Red Army soldiers, rescue them!
1942 Who Enters Us With The Sword Will Perish By The Sword. Alexander Nevskiy
1942 The road to victory!
1943 We drink water from the native Dnepr, we will drink from the Prut, the Neman and the Bug! Clean Soviet land from Nazi scum!
1943 Happy holiday on our street!
1943 Head to the West!
1943 Red Army’s broom will sweep all the scum out!
1943 Save the Soviet children from the Germans!
1944 You gave us our life back!
1944 You will be living happily!
1944 a view of Moscow and view of Berlin!
1944 Death to the German fascist invaders!
1944 Excellent work has been done!
1944 Let’s get to Berlin!
1944 Love of the nation to the victorious warrior!
1944 Forward to the Final Defeat of the enemy!
1945 Be especially vigilant being abroad native land!
1945 Stalin – Thank You!
1945 Broom of Red Army swept the evil-doer completely!
1945 Glory to the victorious Motherland!
1945 Glory to the winners!
1945 Glory to victorious warrior!
1945 Greetings to mother Russia!
1945 Our banner is the banner of Victory!
Allies:
1941 From The British People To Victory. We Are With You
1942 Aid The Wounded, red amy day
1943 Concrete Expression Of Britain’s Admiration. A Hospital For Stalingrad
1944 That’s how Fascist beast will be treated!
1944 Allies
Anti Enemy:
1941 ‘Face’ of Hitlerism
1941 Made their sign of four gallows
1941 That’s how it was… That’s how it will be…
1941 To Moscow. Hah! From Moscow. Oh!
1942 For honor of your wife, for the children lives,
1942 Death to the German Occupier!
1942 Kill the fascist wild fanatic!
1943 German animal looks like so now!
1943 The animal is wounded. Dispatch a fascist animal!
1943 The fascist rate. The amendment of Red Army man!
1944 The ‘bags’ and ‘pincers’ are terrible things for Germans!
1944 The fascist carrion crow has learned that there is not lamb farm here!
1944 Atlantic Wall. He Will Deceive Hardy Anyone With The Lies About The European Shaft
1945. What sow, that and crop! The court is unavoidable!
1945 The disgraceful end of fascist aggressors
1945 The enemy is crafty – be on guard!
Production:
1941 We’ll take your shift!
1941 Each strike of a hammer is a strike against the enemy!
1941 For 38 million ton of oil and gas in 1941!
1941 Have you helped the Front?
1941 More metal – more weapons!
1941 Our people and army are invincible!
1942 All for the front! All for the victory!
1942 Ural, help the Front!
1943 This front report includes my battle work as well!
Home Front:
1941 Transport is the brother of the Red Army
1941 Babbler is a godsend for a spy
1941 Do Not Gossip!
1944 Come on, let’s take it!..
1944 Glory to heroic mothers!
1944 Let’s secure a rich crop in 1944!
1944 Salut. State Jazz Orchestra of the RSFSR
1944 Let’s Restore Our Villages Destroyed By The German-Fascist Invaders!
1945 Ivan the Terrible
1945 Let Soviet banner of our nation lead us from one victory to another!
1945 Rebuild in the best way!
1945 The less kilowatts you spend — The more grenades to the front you send!