Mother home is calling!
Mother home is calling! ( Russian Родина-мать зовет! / Rodina-mat sovjot!, scientific transliteration Rodina-mat 'zovet! ) is a Soviet propaganda poster by Georgian-Soviet artist Irakli Toidze from 1941. It is considered the most famous political poster in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the German-Soviet War .
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The representation of women changed in Stalinist propaganda with the beginning of the German-Soviet War known as the Great Patriotic War. Two categories should describe the national heroic potential of women as a counterpart to male heroism: the pure-hearted, idealistic martial girl and the figure of the mother as an allegory for the Russian-Soviet homeland. The model for the figure of “Mother Homeland” was a civil war poster by Dmitri Moor . An early example is the poster Mother calls home! from 1941. It shows a maternal woman, dressed entirely in red, with a serious expression on her face, who stands in front of a background of two rows of bayonets, her body hiding the arms. In her right hand she is holding the Soviet oath ( Wojennaja prissjaga ; Russian Военная присяга , scientific transliteration Voennaja prisjaga ) from 1939, with the other hand she points to soldiers in the background who are moving towards the viewer.
Text of the Soviet oath of 1939 shown (Wojennaja prissjaga)
"Я, гражданин Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, вступая в ряды Рабоче-крестьянской Красной Армии, принимаю присягу и торжественно клянусь быть честным, храбрым, дисциплинированным, бдительным бойцом, строго хранить военную и государственную тайну, беспрекословно выполнять все воинские уставы и приказы командиров и начальников .
Я клянусь добросовестно изучать военное дело, всемерно беречь военное и народное имущество и до последнего дыхания быть преданным своему Народу, своей Советской Родине и Рабоче-крестьянскому Правительству.
Я всегда готов по приказу Рабоче-крестьянского Правительства выступить на защиту моей Родины - Союза Советских Социалистических Республик и, как воин Рабоче-крестьянской Красной Армии, я клянусь защищать её мужественно, умело, с достоинством и честью, не щадя своей крови и самой жизни для достижения полной победы над врагами.
Если же по злому умыслу я нарушу эту мою присягу, то пусть меня постигнет суровая кара советского закона, всеобщая ненависть и презрение трудящихся "
“I, a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, join the ranks of the Red Army, the army of workers and peasants. I swear to be an honest, courageous, disciplined, vigilant fighter, to strictly protect all military and state secrets and to carry out all military instructions and orders from commanders and superiors without contradiction.
I swear to study warfare diligently, to protect military and public property and to serve my people, my Soviet homeland and the workers and peasants' government faithfully to the last breath.
I am always ready to defend my fatherland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on the orders of the Workers 'and Peasants' Government. As a soldier in the Red Army, the army of workers and peasants, I swear to defend this with courage, skill, dignity and honor and not to spare my blood and even my life until I have completely defeated the enemy.
If I maliciously break this oath, then may the severest punishment under Soviet law, the hatred and contempt of the working people hit me. "
The formulation of the oath of the National People's Army of the GDR was based on this oath.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Daniela Rathe: Soja - a «Soviet Joan of Arc»? On the typology of a war heroine. In: Socialist Heroes. A cultural history of propaganda figures in Eastern Europe and the GDR , ed. v. Silke Satjukow, Rainer Gries, Chr. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-86153-271-2 , pp. 45f
- ^ Art and Propaganda in the Strife of Nations 1930-1945 , catalog for the exhibition in the German Historical Museum Berlin, Sandstein Verlag, ed. v. Hans-Jörg Czech, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-937602-93-6 , p. 238.
- ↑ a b Military oath of the Great Patriotic War Text of a poster with the title "Родина-Мать зовет! (Motherland calls!)" From 1941. Retrieved on August 13, 2018. (Russian)
