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We had this postcard in our shared apartment kitchen 30 years ago…

The original is an old soviet recruiting poster from the russian revolution.

Some shops in potsdam still sell that as a poster

my mom gifted me this as a fridge magnet

It is based on a Red Army propaganda poster from 1920 for recruiting volunteer soldiers.

During the time of the Russian Civil War (1917-1922), the newly formed Soviet government was fighting for its survival against foreign armies (UK, France, US, imperial Japan) and the so-called „White Army“, which was a coalition of conservative monarchists and nationalists who wanted Russia to go back to its previous feudal monarchical state. The Red Army needed a lot of volunteer soldiers to have a chance to defeat them. Propaganda posters were a crucial tool in achieving the goal.