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Description

Peasant kissing a soldier of the "Army of Liberation" on a Soviet propaganda poster issued after the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. According to Soviet propaganda, the Red Army entered Poland to liberate and protect the "Ukrainian-Belarussian brothers". The text reads: "Our army is an army that liberates workers", signed "J. Stalin".
Source

http://www.fronta.cz/sekce/propaganda-plakaty-letaky-druha-svetova-valka
Date

1939, WWII
Author

unknown illustrator
Permission
( Reusing this image)

Soviet government publication before January 1, 1954 - public domain

Public domain This file is a Ukrainian or Soviet work and it is presently in the public domain in Ukraine. It was published before January 1, 1951, and the creator (if known) died before that date). (This is the effect of the retroactive Ukrainian copyright law of 1993 and the copyright from 50 to 70 years in 2001.)

A Ukrainian or Soviet work that is in the public domain in Ukraine according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in Ukraine before January 1, 1996, e.g. if it was published before January 1, 1946 and the creator died before this date, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of the retroactive Ukrainian copyright law, Ukraine's joining the Berne Convention in 1996, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)

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