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I swear to study with all my might the arts of war, to defend with all my power military and public property, and to be loyal to my last breath to my nation, to the Soviet Motherland and the Worker-Farmer Government.

Poster Number: PP 027
Category: Military
Media Size: 30.5x21.5
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: c.1941
Technical Information on Poster: Order No. 492. NKMP YSSR. UPT. (People's Commissariat of Local Industry Ukrainian SSR. [UPT = Department of Government Transport?])
Glavlit Directory Number: KV11287.
Catalog Notes: PP 027 Military
Artist: Grinets', Dmitro Mitrofanovich — Гринець, Дмитро Митрофанович
Printer: Chromolit Lithography Workshop named for Comrade Dzerzhinskii, Kharkov — Хромолит Типо-литография имени т. Дзержинского, Харьков
Located in Kharkov in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the Chromolit Lithography was named in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (1877-1926) who was head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (VChK) internal police who were commonly referred to as the “Cheka”. During its history, the printer was also named the 1st Chromolit Lithography and it was overseen by the printing trust UPKPT (Management of Production and Technical Equipment).
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Publisher: Art Fund of the USSR — Художественный фонд СССР (РСФСР)
The Art Fund of the USSR was an organization developed with financial support of the state and with the Artists’ Union of the USSR. The Artists’ Union of the USSR administered the Art Fund of the USSR in addition to managing the Board of Exhibitions, the Central Educational and Experimental Workshop, the Propaganda Poster Agency, and the Sovetskii Khudozhnik Publishing House. Via decree, wages paid to union artists and designers included payments to the Art Fund...
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