Petr Mitrofanovich Shukhmin
(Born Voronezh, 1894; died Moscow, 1955)
Dem'ian Bednyi
(Born Gubovka, 1883; died Moscow, 1945)

An Inglorious End, TASS No. 1248, after May 8, 1945

Stencil
1460 x 1235 mm
In the picture, Marshal Zhukov
Looks stern. “Are the Germans here?”
“They’re awaiting orders.” “Let them come in!”

The Germans – three, of the highest rank,
For the reasons everybody knows
Grimly scratch out with their pens.
Having lost the war, in Berlin
They have added their signature, “Kaput!”
Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 2010.165