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08.05.2015

Colorful posters, from which patronymic defenders were looking into a bright future during the Great Patriotic War, were equal participants in hostilities and rear operations. Their contribution to the common victory is inexorable. Their importance in the preservation of memory is priceless.

When deputy of the Supreme Council Ilona Tyuryaeva saw reproductions of historical posters in the central bookstore in Moscow, she purchased a complete set, so that they resembled Pridnestrovians about the power of the spirit of our ancestors. Parliamentarian organized exhibition that is placed in the window of one of the Tiraspol shops along the 25 October Street. Thousands of passers-by contact eyes with the consolidated for century mother sending her son to war, draw defenders, rear workers. War fortunately past long time ago, but the slogans and appeals seventy years ago is still more relevant than ever.

They say time is a great healer, delaying wound, but the scars remain. It is not possible to erase the horrors of war from people's memory; to wash from Nazi hands blood of millions of victims, dry up the sea of shed ​​tears. The time do not spare those who survived in the Second World War, unfortunately, there are fewer living witnesses and participants of the events of the middle of last century. But the documents of those years are in the family, school, city, state archives. They, like veterans, stand guard a true history. Posters are noteworthy that raised the people against fascism, called a soldier in battle, inspired by the exploits, the fortitude and the soldiers who defended the freedom of the motherland in the rear.

The first military poster says "crush and destroy the enemy ruthlessly!" - appeared on the streets of Moscow June 24, 1941. It is inextricably linked with the Great Patriotic War image Motherland text of the military oath in her hand belonged to the pen of the artist Toidze. The popular slogan, "All for the front, everything for victory!", which defines the essence of the rear of propaganda is no less famous.

"Our cause is just, the victory will be ours!", "Soldiers of the Red Army, save me!", "For the honor of wife, for the children's lives!", "Long live our glorious men and women guerrillas!", "The Red Army brings liberation from fascist yoke "," Forward, victory is near!”- in these and other famous slogans of the whole force of the Soviet people, the depth of patriotism, courage, love for the motherland, the hatred for fascism. By the end of 1944, the paper associates Soviet soldiers in the power proclaimed the approach of Victory. Smiling soldier on the poster Golovanov L. "Glory to Red Army!". It became the personification of the victorious army.