SVT in Soviet propaganda
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I assume he is a civilian helping the military with local expertise:
"Look, those are the Fascist Paratroopers I've been telling you about, every morning at 10am they practice jump into my village, shoot them Comrade!".
"Were? In the sky?"
"Yes, look where my finger is pointing, in the sky."
"The sky, you say? Good job I brought a disproportionately huge Degtyaryov!"
It is a orange spy, he points to the wrong direction. And the man behind the Degtyaryov is the young Stalin.
That bolshevik's copy of Renault FT 17 on background has a nice anti-wheelie device
it was there to assist in crossing trenches.
gewehr76
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Sorry, I should have been specific . Nagant Revolver 1895.
"you're all stupid. They're gonna be looking for army guys"
Made my day
I am wondering if they did actually use the SVT in more propaganda than other rifles? It does have a certain "scary-ness" to it with that
big magazine, perforated metal gas piston guard and muzzle brake! It looked "badder" than any other rifle of that time.
Basically this. You have to remember, they were propaganda posters. They used the SVT a lot because it was a badder, more modern looking rifle, and they wanted to portray the army as a badder, meaner, tougher, more modern army than the one that got slaughtered by the Germans in WWI
Failed designs are like that sometimes...
If it was such a failed design, why did they keep producing them, at roughly 10x the production cost of a Mosin, right through the end of the war?
It was a mid century semi-auto full powered rifle. All the rifles that fit that description (even the vaunted Garand) came with a mess of liabilities and design shortfalls, and had a fairly short service life in their original armies.
The Soviets just cottoned onto the value of the intermediate cartridge sooner than the Americans did - likely because they faced the Stg 44 in far greater numbers and in more intense fighting than the Western allies did. Between that, and the vast stockpile of arms they'd built up during the war, there was no need to continue production afterward.
The myth of the SVT-40 being a failed design is one that needs to end. The engineering behind the SVT - particularly when it comes to the gas system - had a far greater impact on later arms design than the Garand gas system did.
This is great stuff, Rasputin! We are privledged to have you as a CGN member.
Interesting how propaganda has always been used even by a regime that may not have really needed it, but used it to
smooth their path. Quite a joke to portray the Russian soldier being merely entertained by an impotent enemy when the
reality would have been far more deadly for the recruits.
Interesting how propaganda has always been used even by a regime that may not have really needed it, but used it to
smooth their path. Quite a joke to portray the Russian soldier being merely entertained by an impotent enemy when the
reality would have been far more deadly for the recruits.
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I'll try:
Poetry is not my thing
Samed is facing death, to save Simeon's life,
While Simeon sacrifices his own life for Samed's...
Their password is Motherland, their slogan is Victory.
This one is interesting: the idea is fraternity of all nations within the Soviet Union.
Samed (pronounced sam-Ehd) is a typical name of inhabitants of the USSR's Asian republics, such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, while Simeon is a typical Russian (and Jewish) name.
Hence the poster showing an Asian-looking guy and a Russian-looking guy.
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Ha-ha, this is funny. No, this is a Russian peasant, who is showing a Soviet soldier where the Nazi saboteurs are hiding. The caption reads "Eliminate Nazi saboteurs".
The idea of the poster is that a peasant spotted Nazi agents on a Soviet territory, reported them to authorities, who sent the troops, and he is now helping to eliminate them.
The peasant is wearing a typical traditional Russian red shirt. Part of the reason it is so bright, is that this poster must have been printed in just two colours, red and black, to save on cost.
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gewehr76
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SKS in propaganda anyone?
Looks like this is sinosoviet he's holding. Strange to see them without glasses.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...iGFJ-jtHZ9zxH6GWyOTynbYMFfVCh-wtGISoQA55AJeUA
Looks like this is sinosoviet he's holding. Strange to see them without glasses.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...iGFJ-jtHZ9zxH6GWyOTynbYMFfVCh-wtGISoQA55AJeUA
