Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin
(Born Moscow, 1896; died Moscow, 1968)
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
(Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964)

An Unpleasant Awakening, TASS No. 1015, July 7, 1944

Stencil
“Cherbourg! Vitebsk! Orsha! Asipovichy! Mahileu!”

In an armored cave
Or in another cozy hideout
Hitler listens in panic
To the latest news.

Every day the news is worse
Every day it gets bleaker.
The Germans are beaten in Cherbourg,
Orsha, Rome and in Mahileu.

The avalanche rolls on.
The latest news headlines
Will reach Berlin
From the Berlin suburbs.
Ne boltai! Collection, Obj: 205980