Tass

Following the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the organisational committee of the Union of Soviet Artists established the TASS Window collective to produce propaganda poster to aid the Soviet war effort. In this they followed the example set by artists of the ROSTA Windows posters (so called because they often appeared in the empty shop windows of the day) of the Civil War period, 1918-21.

TASS (Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union), like ROSTA before it, was the official Soviet telegraphic agency. It became associated with the Soviet propaganda effort as it was able to able to provide poster artists with the latest news from the Front, allowing them to respond, often within hours, to major events.

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