About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Kukryniksy
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Title
- A Lesson for the Germans
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Place
- Russia (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1944
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Medium
- Stencil
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Inscriptions
- Hitler has again deceived his soldiers and officers, sending them to their destruction…. May another grand slaughter of the surrounded German troops in the Korsun-Shevchenko region serve as yet another lesson for the Germans: how dangerous it is to trust the Führer’s false promises. (From the newspaper Pravda). Inscribed on the papers in Hitler’s head: Order The points on the map: Kanev; Zvenyhorodka; Shpola Hitler proposes but the Red Army disposes.
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Dimensions
- 132 × 117 cm (52 × 46 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
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Reference Number
- 2010.98
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