This is from a collection of extremely rare News Agency "window" posters from the Soviet Union. Posted daily in shop windows of Moscow after the German invasion started in June 1941, TASS posters were intended to rally support for the war, and later the post-war, effort. Artists of these posters utilized a broad arsenal of visual strategies to both incite and inspire - from vicious satire, to potent slogans, to undiluted horror and hatred, to patriotic historical parallels. As victories piled up, TASS designs abandoned much of their venom for messages of unity, thankfulness, and recovery. The collection at International Poster Gallery features intricately hand stenciled TASS panels dating from March 1943 to late 1946 as the scales slowly tipped in the Soviets' favor, and beyond the armistice. This remarkably idyllic panel from after the war puffs the ambitious restoration of vacation centers throughout the country: We will fulfill the new Stalinist Five-Year Plan! We shall fully restore the network of vacation centers and sanitoria for workers, peasants, and intellectuals. We shall increase the number of places to 250,000 in sanitoria, and 200,000 in vacation centers. In our country, all labor is honorable. In recognition of a year's worth of glorious work, rest and recreation awaits us in the South. Those who are honest and deserving have this right! Learn more about the TASS panels.