Compatibility

On 17 September 1939, during the common Nazi-Soviet military parade  in Brest, the Soviet general Krivoshein expressed his hopes to the German general Guderian to welcome them soon in Moscow after their victory over Great Britain. But the supreme Soviet military leadership cherished even more extravagant hopes as to the place of the re-union.


The brother nations fixed the appointment
above the enemy city.
On each of their handshakes
the imperial Britain trembles.

However, times change and we change with them. The poster designed in 1940 by the Kukryniks troika – Kupriyanov, Krylov, Sokolov – finally become famous in its version of 1945.


The brother nations fixed the appointment
above the enemy city.
On each of their handshakes
the fascist Germany trembles.

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