"Our Forces Are Infinite!": Soviet Propaganda Calls For Unity After Hitler Invasion

By Tom Gillespie @TomGillespie1

SOVIET propaganda released after Hitler’s invasion of the USSR show how the communists strived to keep the country united

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United: Soviet propaganda showing an agricultural and a town worker shaking hands

In it together: Two train yard workers at their daily grind

A poster drawn-up by Komsomol, the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, shows industrial employees working together at a train yard.

The illustration is accompanied by a statement reading: "Komsomol members fight for the Bolshevik reconstruction of transport - main socialist goal of the USSR's construction and defense."

Think of the children: A poster reads- "We demand universal compulsory education."

People power: Communist propaganda shows a man towering over a town (translation unknown)

Soviet propaganda reading- "We are on our way from industrialisation to socialism at full speed."

A more aggressive image shows a Soviet solider painted in red, pointing a gun in the face of a disheveled looking Hitler.

The propaganda reads: "Let's ruthlessly beat and destroy the enemy!"

A communist message reaching out to industrial workers (translation unknown)

Power to the people: The poster reads- "Let's raise growth rates of technological progress!"

The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, dubbed Operation Barbarossa, was Germany’s largest military invasion of World War Two.

Destroying the union and the proposed communist threat to their nation had been a core Nazi policy since the 1920s.

On the march: Soviet propaganda proclaims- "Long live unity and friendship among all nationalities of the USSR!"

Defiance: The poster reads- "Our forces are infinite!"

The key message of the USSR propaganda campaign was unification. One poster, depicting a line of workers, reads "In the union of all nations we strengthen the USSR."

Another shows a huge red ship on a black sea, and reads: "We are on our way from industrialization to socialism at full speed."