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Soviet Yiddish propaganda poster “Let’s give our votes to the best people from our homeland!” 1940
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The poster - “Lomir opgebn undzere shtimen far di beste mentshn fun undzer heymland!” (Let’s give our votes to the best people from our homeland!) in original Yiddish - promotes the popular involvement in the 1940 elections to the organs of the Soviet power in the western regions of Ukraine annexed by the USSR as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (partition of independent Polish state between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia) in November 1939. The poster depicts voters dressed as local population of former Polish Galicia, including modern-looking city-dwellers and peasants dressed in folk costumes of Western Ukrainians. Published by the State publishing house “Mistetstvo” (Kiev, 1940). Designed by Mikhail Khazanovskii (1912-1990), Soviet artist, the author of many propaganda and movie posters. Editor O.Kalekina. Technical editor A.Rozenberg. Print run 1,000 copies. Price 1 ruble 25 kopeks.
Title: Soviet Yiddish propaganda poster “Let’s give our votes to the best people from our homeland!” 1940
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The poster - “Lomir opgebn undzere shtimen far di beste mentshn fun undzer heymland!” (Let’s give our votes to the best people from our homeland!) in original Yiddish - promotes the popular involvement in the 1940 elections to the organs of the Soviet power in the western regions of Ukraine annexed by the USSR as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (partition of independent Polish state between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia) in November 1939.
The poster depicts voters dressed as local population of former Polish Galicia, including modern-looking city-dwellers and peasants dressed in folk costumes of Western Ukrainians.
Published by the State publishing house “Mistetstvo” (Kiev, 1940).
Designed by Mikhail Khazanovskii (1912-1990), Soviet artist, the author of many propaganda and movie posters.
Editor O.
Kalekina.
Technical editor A.
Rozenberg.
Print run 1,000 copies.
Price 1 ruble 25 kopeks.
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