A Lesson for the Germans

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Kukryniksy

Title

A Lesson for the Germans

Place

Russia (Artist's nationality:)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

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.

Dimensions

132 × 117 cm (52 × 46 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.98

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