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Soviet posters causing a stir
Published: 20 February, 2010, 15:19
Edited: 29 March, 2010, 05:05
TAGS: Art, Anniversary, Military, Russia, History
“Everything for the front line, all for the victory!” One of this year’s first exhibitions dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Soviet victory in WWII has opened at Moscow’s Central House of Artists.
Over 50 World War II-era propaganda posters encouraging Red Army soldiers and all Soviet citizens to resist Germany’s invasion and urging people to stand up against Nazism are on display till March 14.
Created by the Leningrad artists in 1942-43, it seems that many of the posters haven’t lost their universal appeal and still produce a strong emotional, as well as visual impact.
A fusion of realism and brutal psychologism, Soviet political posters were one of the most powerful and effective means of propaganda from 1919 onwards.
They emerged to present the official stance or reaction to whatever political or social issues were being raised in the totalitarian state.
The exhibition also features battlefield photographs from the private archive of combat pilot and Hero of Russia Aleksandr Zenin, whose daughter Elena has brought together the vast display of the Soviet posters and her father’s front-line photos.
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How sad , the nonchalant attitude to the exemplary inspiring relics of the great Leninist Party of the USSR , being demonstrated by this RT reporter. "Totaliterian" or whatever he chooses to qualify it, I do not see how you can conduct the present dignified life of yours without the glorious sacrifices those relics and posters of the past inspired in your predecessors. I am not Russian, But I Owe them eternal gratitude for all they did and I share the happiness all Russian Patriots feel today as a tribute to these Heroes.