Uproot!
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Moscow (made)
- Date:
1978 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Smirnov, I. (artist)
Galkin, A. (editor)
Nemirov, U. (editor)
Popov, I. (editors)
Order of Babour Red Banner Kalinin Publishing House (publishers) - Materials and Techniques:
colour offset lithograph
- 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.1208-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR13
This Soviet or "Red" propaganda poster calls for total disarmament by capitalist countries. This poster depicts a United States B-1 Air Force bomber gripped within a gargantuan blue fist. The bomber sprouts tree-like roots in the shapes of US dollar- and UK pound-signs, suggesting that capitalism provides the "roots" of militarism. The use of these two currency symbols particularly singles out the rampant militarism of the United States and Great Britain.
