The Allied Forces Have Forced the English Channel

Prints and Drawings

July 16, 1944

Mikhail Mikhailovich Solov’ev
(Born Moscow, 1905; died Moscow, 1990)
Petr Ashotovich Sarkisian
(Born Moscow, 1922; died Moscow, 1970)
Vasilii Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach
(Born Moscow, 1898; died Moscow, 1949)

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)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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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