During the Great Patriotic War, a unique movement emerged – TASS Windows. Since June 27, 1941, a team of artists and poets created more than 1,250 posters that inspired soldiers and citizens, raising the morale of the nation.
The posters reflected the heroism of Soviet soldiers, condemned enemies and called for the defense of the Fatherland. They were compared in their impact to the greatest works of art, such as Shostakovich’s “Leningrad Symphony”.
The posters were made by artists and replicated not by typography, but by stencils and by hand. N.F. Denisovsky became the permanent head of the editorial office and organizer of “TASS Windows”.
Creating posters sometimes took only 4 hours, and they were published in the shortest possible time, covering important events of the war.
On Victory Day, the posters became a symbol of the heroic era. The best of them remain forever in history as monuments to art and patriotism.
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