RU-3345527 “Your Motherland nees you!”

This postcard came from Olga (27 January 2015) Postcrossing.  She wrote that the original poster is most probably the most famous of all the patriotic posters produced during World War II.

In June 1941, the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa and the Soviet Union entered World War II. This poster was published in the early days of the German attack. The story behind this poster is that the wife of the artist, Irakli Toidze, ran into his studio screaming "War!" upon hearing the news on the radio. Irakli asked her to freeze her movement and her posture is what is seen in the poster. Of course the features of the Motherland was not that of Irakli’s wife because the powers that be toned down her looks for the poster.