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The fascist crow has discovered, that to us - he is no eagle!
Deni, Viktor Nikolaevich, born 1893 - died 1946 - Enlarge image
The fascist crow has discovered, that to us - he is no eagle!
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
USSR (made)
- Date:
1944 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Deni, Viktor Nikolaevich, born 1893 - died 1946 (maker)
Iskusstvo (publishers) - Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph on paper
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.279-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR7
Viktor Deni had distinguished himself as a poster artist during the Russian Civil War (1918-1920) but afterwards concentrated on newspaper caricatures until there was again a need for propaganda for the Great Patriotic War, the name by which Russians referred to World War II. By 1944 the tide of war had turned in the Soviet Union's favour and the Germans were in retreat. The desperate mood of early war propaganda gave way to a more optimistic, even wryly humorous, anticipation of victory to which Deni's pungently wittly style was ideally suited. In this poster, the arm of a strong Russian soldier is seen strangling a Nazi crow. The image makes fun of Nazism and belittles the proud eagle which came to symbolise Nazism.
