Propaganda War Portrait Poster Set USSR Marshals Lenin Molotov Voroshilov Timoshenko

Set of 5 original vintage World War Two and earlier propaganda posters featuring portraits of military and political leaders. 1. Marshals of the Soviet Union set over a red banner with USSR symbolica including a red star and hammer and sickle. Photographs from left to right portray - Semyon Budyonny (1883-1973) a Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Semyon Timoshenko (1895-1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War. Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era and served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Soviet head of state, from 1953 to 1960. Grigory Kulik (1890-1950) was a Soviet military commander and served as chief of the Red Army's Main Artillery Directorate from 1937 until June 1941. Boris Shaposhnikov (1882-1945) was a Soviet military officer and theoretician, he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1928 to 1931 and at the start of the Second World War. Shaposhnikov was one of the foremost military theorists during the Stalin era. His most important work The Brain of the Army, is considered a landmark in Soviet military theory and doctrine on the organisation of the Red Army's General Staff. Horizontal. Good condition, folds, tears, staining, creasing. Country of issue: Russia, designer: G. Muchnik, size (cm): 45.5x60, year of printing: 1941; 2. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Good condition, folds, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses on edges. Country of issue: Russia, designer: P. Vasilyev, size (cm): 62x43, year of printing: 1940; 3. Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) a Russian and later Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, he served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In August 1939, Molotov became the principal Soviet signatory of the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Fair condition, folds, tears, creasing, staining, paper losses, tape on reverse. Country of issue: Russia, designer: S. Bondar, size (cm): 58x45.5, year of printing: 1941; 4. Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969) depicted in a military uniform. Voroshilov was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era and served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Soviet head of state, from 1953 to 1960. Fair condition, folds, tears, paper losses, staining, creasing. Country of issue: Russia, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 91x48, year of printing: 1935; 5. People's Commissar of Defense of the Union of USSR, hero and marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko (1895-1970) in a military uniform with medals. Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during World War Two. Published by the Main Directorate of Political Propaganda of the Red Army. Fair condition, folds, tears, creasing, staining, paper losses, pinholes. Country of issue: Russia, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 90x61, year of printing: 1941.