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'For the Motherland': Red Army on Soviet Posters

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As the national Defender of the Fatherland Day has wives and girlfriends shopping for small gifts all over Russia, we look back at how Soviet propaganda glorified the military visually.

First celebrated in 1919, the holiday marks the date a year prior during the Civil War, when the Red Army conducted its first mass draft in Moscow and St. Petersburg (known as Petrograd back then).

Originally known as Red Army Day, it was renamed to Soviet Army and Navy Day in 1949, and finally was given its current title by Vladimir Putin in 2002.

© Sputnik / Pavel Balabanov / Go to the mediabank"Who we beat" by N. Dolgorukov and V. Deni, 1939.
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"Who we beat" by N. Dolgorukov and V. Deni, 1939.
© Sputnik / Pavel Balabanov / Go to the mediabank"Keep up the revolution's pace, the restless enemy never sleeps" by O. Savostyuk and B. Uspensky
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"Keep up the revolution's pace, the restless enemy never sleeps" by O. Savostyuk and B. Uspensky
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Save us, Red Army soldier!" by V. Koretsky.
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"Save us, Red Army soldier!" by V. Koretsky.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"It's not a human voice, it's a beast screaming. Plans busted, blitzkrieg failed" by V. Ivanov and O. Burova, 1942.
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"It's not a human voice, it's a beast screaming. Plans busted, blitzkrieg failed" by V. Ivanov and O. Burova, 1942.
© Sputnik / Alexey Sverdlov / Go to the mediabank"Have you volunteered?" by D. Moor (D. Orlov), 1920.
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"Have you volunteered?" by D. Moor (D. Orlov), 1920.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Working men and women! You are forging victory together with the Red Army!" a Moscow State Arts Institute lithography, 1941.
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"Working men and women! You are forging victory together with the Red Army!" a Moscow State Arts Institute lithography, 1941.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Red Army's broom swiped clear of all the dirt!" by V. Deni, 1945.
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"Red Army's broom swiped clear of all the dirt!" by V. Deni, 1945.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Everything for the frontline! More tanks, planes, cannons, machine guns, rifles and ammunition for the Red Army!" - a wartime poster.
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"Everything for the frontline! More tanks, planes, cannons, machine guns, rifles and ammunition for the Red Army!" - a wartime poster.
© Sputnik / Igor Mikhalev / Go to the mediabank"Grow up, bogatyr! Soviet army keeps you safe!" by F. Shurygin and M. Solovyov.
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"Grow up, bogatyr! Soviet army keeps you safe!" by F. Shurygin and M. Solovyov.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"The pledge" by D. Moor
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"The pledge" by D. Moor
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Join the ranks of frontline companions, our soldiers' helpers and friends!" by V. Koretsky and V. Gitsevich, 1941.
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"Join the ranks of frontline companions, our soldiers' helpers and friends!" by V. Koretsky and V. Gitsevich, 1941.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"Fascism is a bloody monster! Have no mercy!" by A. Laktionov and N. Pilschikov, 1941.
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"Fascism is a bloody monster! Have no mercy!" by A. Laktionov and N. Pilschikov, 1941.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"For Motherland, for honor, for freedom!" by V. Ivanov, 1941.
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"For Motherland, for honor, for freedom!" by V. Ivanov, 1941.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"We've got a single target now: Berlin!" by V. Koretsky, 1945.
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"We've got a single target now: Berlin!" by V. Koretsky, 1945.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabank"All hail the liberator warrior!" by V. Koretsky and V. Gitsevich, 1943.
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"All hail the liberator warrior!" by V. Koretsky and V. Gitsevich, 1943.
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