The Allied Forces Have Forced the English Channel

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Mikhail M. Solov'ev

Title

The Allied Forces Have Forced the English Channel

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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Original 1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The “unconquerable” Napoleon Failed to cross the Channel. But the obsessed Hitler bragged That he would subdue the British Isles. “I’m greater than Napoleon! I will capture Albion!” The corporal threatened for two years, But everything turned out backward: The Allied Fleet has crossed by force The foamy waters of the Channel. It’s the end of the corporal, kaput! He’s caught in pincers everywhere! He’s beaten everywhere, and everywhere is hell for him! Cherbourg is liberated, Vitebsk taken!

Dimensions

202.1 × 85.7 cm (79 5/8 × 33 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.211

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