Finland WW2 Propaganda Collection: Finland participated to the second world war in three phases:
Winter War against Soviet Union 30. November 1939 – 13 March, where Soviet Union after demands of military bases and some ares and islands outside of Finnish archipelago attacked Finland and after a lot of casualties made a peace in 13 of March 1940.
A continuation war, where Finland, together with Germany tried to conquer back the lost territory and even gained some extra territory in Karelia until major Soviet offensive during june 1944.
And then a war against Germany in Lapland, where Finland had to throw German soldiers away according to the peace agreement with allies and Soviet Union.
Finland WW2 Propaganda Posters:
Finnish Propaganda Material:
1939 The Traitor’s Wages Are Death
1939 A Spy Is Haunting You Too. A Spy Is Directing Bombs At Your Home
1939 Merry Christmas
1939 – We’re running away there (Finland), brother! There’s bread and everything…!
1939 Finland’s Allies. Long Nights – Winter Weather
1939 And Now Finally – Out of Our Yard!!
1941 You belong to the home front, suppress every hearsay – gossip – rumor
1941 Mobilization declared
1941 Ruki Vehr! (Hands Upp!)
1941 When the faces start to look like this, there’s (our) eastern border
1942 The Finnish People on behalf of Ingria
1942 Danger Threatens From the Air!
1943 Hakkapeliitta No 2. On the winter roads of battle. A warrior with his four-legged comrades-in-arms
Other Countries Supporting Finland:
1939 Finland’s cause is ours! For a greater fight join the Volunteer Corps
1939 A People Is In Danger. You Can Help. National Collections For Finland
1939 Let’s Help Our Finnish Brothers! (Hungarian)
1939 Newsweek December 25, 1939. Fighting Finns of the Mannerheim Line
1939 Finland. Brave little mouse
1940 Cause of Finland is Yours – join the Volunteer Corps!
1940 Fighting Funds for Finland Inc. – Speed means life for Finland
1940 Finland, field of honour! (Switzerland)
1940 Honour Among Thieves (Punch)
1940 Gulliver Stalin
1941 Pictures from the War Against Soviet Russia
1942 Stalin, the church and the devil
Soviet Posters against Finland:
1940 A bayonet and a grenade are the best helpers in a night fight!
1940 Do not cling to the roads, boldly look for the enemy in the forest!
1940 Breaching the Mannerheim Line, the surrender of the Finns
1940 Notice. Defeated on the Mannerheim Line in 1940
1940 Vasya vs. Finn
1943 Death to the Finnish butchers!
1943 Finland before 1943 vs. Finland in 1943
1943 Finland is quiet and harmless country!
1944 Death to German-Finnish Agressors!
1944 It is they who suffocated the people of Leningrad with hunger, they are the murderers of thousands of peaceful residents of our city. Death to the German-Finnish invaders!
1944 We will not forgive the German-Finnish bandits!
Finnish Flyers to Soviet Union:
1940 A Political Commander Is Worse Than An Enemy. He Shoots You In The Back!
1940 We don’t want Wars! We Don’t Want To Suffer. We Don’t Want To Die. We Want To Live!
1940 Comraders – Red Army soldiers! The road to a carefreee life begins here! End to hunger, cold and death!
1940 Comrades – Red Army Soldiers. Political Commanders Are Driving You To Your Death, And You Answer Them ‘Die Yourself, Dog’
1940 Political Commander – Hero Of The Union. You Have An Empty Belly
1940 Finns would pay a lot for every weapon you’ll take with you
1940 He lost his wife and children – for grief and chains
1940 Where there’s the politruk, there’s death! Death to war-mongers, the politruks!
1940 White death. You cannot fight against this frost enemy. You don’t see him, but he is around you.
German Flyers to Soviet Union:
1941 Yakov Stalin Among the Germans. Look, officers and Red Army Soldiers of the workers and peasants Soviet Army
1942 What Do You Do In Your Free Time. In this way they learn all is lost and draw the only conclusion from this. Go over to the Germans!
1942 Your Work In Germany is a devastating blow to Bolshevism!
1942 Germany is waiting for you!
1942 What We Saw In Germany. Captured Red Army Soldiers Tell…
Soviet Flyers To Finland:
1940 Executioner Mannerheim
1940 Mannerheim – The Hangman Of The Finnish People
1940 Soldiers! End this war hopeless for you!. Move to the side of the People’s Government led by Otto Kuusinen
1942 Finnish soldier! Look at this executioner Hitler, assisted by Ryti and Mannerheim, ‘standing guarding’ Finland’s independence!
1942 A Soviet Flyer To Finnish Troops _ Father – come home!
1942 Finnish man! Would you die for Hitler’s slaveorder
1942 Finnish soldier! While you are at war… ministers who sent you to death, are packing their bags to run away
1942 – As there is not enough cannon fodder in Germany, so, mister, drink the blood of the Finnish men!
1943 How Finnish POV’s live in Soviet Union
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Finland WW2 Military Art:
1942 Sentry by Kari Suomalainen – TK
Finnish Military Art by Alexander Lindeberg
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