Propaganda poster "Youth, to arms!", 1941

One of the rarest posters of the beginning of the Second World War, issued in an edition of 15,000 copies on July 17, 1941. Artist A. Kazantsev. Size 94.7×62 cm. Traces of bends, creases, tears, loss of fragments. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the youth, along with the entire Soviet people, entered into a deadly battle with the Nazi invaders. Already in the first three days of the war, over 50,000 young people in Moscow applied to be sent to the front. The leading Komsomol workers did not stand aside either: many members of the Central Committee of the Komsomol and the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Union republics, about one third of the secretaries of regional committees, city committees and district Komsomol committees totaling 9,5 thousand people went to the front. "Into battle is our only wish!" she wrote in the June days of 1941. In a statement, a group of Murmansk Komsomol members expressed the general mood of Soviet youth and their willingness to fight for freedom and independence of the Motherland. Guarantee of authenticity.