Antikbar Original Vintage Posters
Lot 357
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - The Motherland is Calling! They Were Your Peers / ??????-???? ?????! ??? ???? ?????? ??????????? - featuring a great photomontage design inspired by the 1941 poster by Irakli Toidze (1902-1985) entitled The Motherland is Calling, featuring a young soldier depicted in black and white wearing a military helmet with red star on it and a bayonet rifle gun behind his back with students sat in an lecture auditorium class across his body and an image of the Mother in red holding up a Red Army oath from 1939-1947 with one arm raised, the oath reading - I, a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, join the ranks of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, take the oath and solemnly vow to be an honest, brave, disciplined, vigilant fighter, to strictly keep military and state secrets, to obey all military regulations and orders of commanders, commissars and chiefs. I swear to conscientiously study military affairs, to take every possible care of military and national property and to my last breath to be loyal to my people, my Soviet Motherland and the Workers and Peasants Government. I am always ready, by order of the Workers and Peasants Government, to defend my Motherland the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and, as a warrior of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, I swear to defend it courageously, skilfully, with dignity and honour, not sparing my blood and life itself for achieving complete victory over enemies. If, by malicious intent, I violate this solemn oath of mine, then let the harsh punishment of Soviet law, universal hatred and contempt of the working people befall me. Excellent condition, minor creasing on edges. Country of issue: Russia, designer: unknown, size (cm): 55.5x42, year of printing: 1985.
