stalin poster of the week 78 (SPotW78)

**SPECIAL EDITION: VICTORY DAY**
Boris Mukhin, Glory to the great heroic Red Army, defending the independence of our country and winning victory over the enemy. Glory to our great people, people-victors!, 1945

Boris Mukhin (Мухин, Б.), 1941-1945. Glory to the great heroic Red Army, defending the independence of our country and winning victory over the enemy. Glory to our great people, people-victors! I. Stalin (Слава нашей героической Красной Армии, отстоявшей независимость нашей родины и завоевавшей победу над врагом! Слава нашему великому народу, народу-победителю! И. Сталин.), 1945

Boris Mukhin’s celebratory poster of 1945 uses text from Stalin’s radio broadcast on the 9th May, the day of the victory of the Soviet troops – ‘Glory to the great heroic Red Army, defending the independence of our country and winning victory over the enemy. Glory to our great people, people-victors!’

The Army and the people are lauded as victors, and Stalin appears in the poster only as the profile portrait on the Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.

Stalin’s dignified profile appears on the medal for the victory over Germany

This medal was awarded to 14,933,000 people, including all the soldiers, officers and partisans who directly took part in live combat actions during the war. The medal was officially established on May 9, 1945.

The poster caption comes from Stalin’s victory speech on May 9, 1945

The poster is colourful, features a victory wreath, and a sky lit up by celebratory lights.