The enemy shall never escape our wrath

Place Asia: Russia
Accession Number ARTV01322
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 71.4 x 50.7 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description lithograph on paper
Maker After Issak Rabichev
Russian War Relief Inc.
Unknown
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This poster was issued by the American foreign aid agency Russian War Relief Inc. in the months following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. It features a reproduction of a Soviet poster by Issak Rabichev and was published to engender support in the United States for the Soviet War effort. The focus of Rabichev's image is a stirring depiction of a heavily armed bearded Russian partisan. In the background to his left is a female partisan while to his right is a burning village with a silhouetted body hanging from a gallows. The image takes up the majority with the title positioned lower left to lower right beneath printed in black ink.