It Has Come to Pass!

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pavel P. Sokolov-Skalia

Title

It Has Come to Pass!

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

“The defense of Leningrad and Moscow, where, recently, our divisions exterminated approximately thirty regular German divisions, shows that new Soviet warriors and commanders, pilots, artillerymen, mortar-men, tank operators, infantrymen, and sailors have been forged and continue to be forged in the crucible of the Great Patriotic War. Tomorrow they will turn into a storm afflicting the German army.” (From the address of comrade J. V. Stalin on November 6, 1941) “We must immediately conform all our efforts to the military tune, subordinating everything to the interests of the front and the tasks of organizing the annihilation of the enemy.” (From the speech of comrade J. V. Stalin on the radio, July 3, 1941) “Our war for the freedom of our fatherland will unite with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for their democratic liberties. This will be a unified front of nations standing for freedom and against enslavement and the threat of enslavement by Hitler’s Fascist armies.” (From the speech of comrade J. V. Stalin on the radio, July 3, 1941) “The German aggressors want to have a total war with the nations of USSR. Well, if the Germans want to have a total war, they will get it.” (From the address of comrade J. V. Stalin on November 6, 1941)

Dimensions

199 × 123.3 cm (78 3/8 × 48 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.181

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