Continuing the Offensive, Our Forces Are Penetrating Ever Further Into German Territory.

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Aleksandr A. Przhetslavskii

Title

Continuing the Offensive, Our Forces Are Penetrating Ever Further Into German Territory.

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The forces of the 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts have reached the coast of the Baltic Sea. The towns seized are Berwalde [Berwald], Tempelberg, Falkenberg [Niemodlin], Dramberg [Drawsko Pomorskie], Wangerin [Wegorzyno], Labes [Lobez], Frauenwalde, Schiefelbein [Swidwin], Regenwalde [Resko], Körlin [Karlino] and Köslin [Koszalin]. The German forces in Eastern Pomerania have been cut off from their forces in Western Pomerania. Onward, our path leads to Berlin. It too will fall before the Russian might. Let the lair of the Fascist beast Soon become its grave!

Dimensions

141.3 × 98.5 cm (55 11/16 × 38 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.139

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