"Liberating Army"

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

This Soviet poster shows a grateful (male) soldier kissing a liberating Soviet soldier:


http://russianlegacy.com/catalog/images/soviet_collection/postcards/C960.jpg

What does the caption read?

Comments

[icamel.livejournal.com]

it's not in Russian

'Our army is an army of liberation of working people'.

Kissing male is not a soldier, obviously

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks. I thought he was supposed to be an idealized Cossack.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

He must be idealized belorussian peasant from those parts of Poland which were 'liberated' according to Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

Great! Thanks for the info.

It's in Byelorussian

[educho.livejournal.com]

Smth like "our army is the army that liberates workers" J.Stalin

Re: It's in Byelorussian

[miram.livejournal.com]

+1. Though this (http://community.livejournal.com/learn_russian/821421.html?thread=12781997#t12781997) translation is more literal.

The poster must be dated 1939.

[apakin.livejournal.com]

Our army is an army of liberation of labourers

[kostez.livejournal.com]

and the language is ukrainian

[kehrmann.livejournal.com]

No, it`s belorussian.

[kostez.livejournal.com]

mm, really)

[kart.livejournal.com]

I agree. The letter Ў in "працоўных" does not occur in Ukrainian nor Russian.

Wrong

[educho.livejournal.com]

It is not Ukrainian.

[ru-entranslator.livejournal.com]

"We're just good friends." :) :) :)

[pastilla.livejournal.com]

chuckling @ ru_entranslator

[ru-entranslator.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. :)

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

i was about to have a breakfast >..

[besisland.livejournal.com]

So what?

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

Oh, those good times when people didn't see gays everywhere.
Those days a man kissing another man like on that poster did actually look much more normal than now with all that "tolerance" all around.