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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Kukryniksy
 - Manufacturer
- Soviet State Press
- Edition Details
| Year: | 1941 | | Class: | Poster | | Status: | Official | | Technique: | Offset Lithograph | | Paper: | Japan | | Size: | 30 X 40 |
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- Event
- WWII Soviet Response to German Invasion
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Also seen as ""Spiritual Leaders of the Soviets," the full title and caption of this print is "Courageously and Irresistibly We Fight and Stab,
We are Suvorov’s Grandchildren and Chapaev’s Sons."
This poster emerged in some of the Soviet Union's darkest days of their "Great Patriotic War," World War II to the rest of the world.
This poster capitalized on three films commissioned by Stalin in the 1934, 1938 and 1941. Each depicted heroes of Russian military history.
The films were:
“Chapaev” (1934) was a film about Vasily Chapayev – a Red Army Commander of the Soviet Revolution also known as the Russian Civil War. Chapayev was immortalized as a hero of the Bolshevik Revolution. He disappeared attempting to escape a White Army ambush by swimming across the Ural River.
“Alexander Nevsky” (1938) by Sergei Eisenstein. Nevsky was a medieval Russian military and political leader, who defeated invading German Tuetonic Knights in 1242 at "The Battle of the Ice" on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus.
And “Suvorov”(1941), depicted life of Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800) who was a Russian Generalissimo and strategist, who was legend to have never lost a battle.
The images of these three famous leaders are depicted ghostlike in the poster's backgroud, seemingly guiding Soviet troops again against the German invaders.
This poster was created by an artistic collective (caricaturist group) known as the Kukryniksy artists, who were famous propaganda poster artists in the Soviet Union. The Kukryniksy artists were: Mikhail Kupriayanov, Porfiri Krylov and Nikolai Sokolov.
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