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A RUSSIAN SOVIET WWII MILITARY PROPAGANDA POSTER - A soviet military poster designed in 1941 by N. Muratov and Y. Petrov, authors of ”Combat Pencil” - a creative association of Leningrad artists who produced propaganda posters during the WWII. The Russian text is quote of a N. Tikhonov poem “Three crosses” read as follows: “…He flew to Leningrad to get the third award, but he made a mistake and the third cross was a wooden cross” with a three painted scenes of bombing Paris and London with caricatured images of Fascists. A main third scene shows failed air attack of Leningrad. Combat Pencil N 41Paper, color lithography Dimensions: 21 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (54.9 x 35.9 cm.)