The “TASS Windows” – the windows to our struggle in the Great Patriotic War

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Following the opening of the TASS exhibition “Their Feat Is Immortal”, where “TASS Windows” were mentioned in Lavrov’s opening speech, we present an extended translation of a publication by TASS made in 2021, celebrating the 80th anniversary of the creation of “TASS Windows”.

The article below is extended with insets, where we add our translation of each of the presented Window. After the article, we will show several other Windows from the posts at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.


80 years of “Windows of TASS”

Who and how created the posters that even Goebbels was afraid of

About one and a half thousand posters with a total circulation of more than 2 million copies. With printing for the army and partisans, filmstrips and exhibitions during the War being done in the USSR, Great Britain, Sweden and China. All these are “Windows of TASS”, which were produced during the Great Patriotic War to raise the morale of the Soviet soldiers.

Poster No. 13 “Chatterbox is a godsend for a spy”, 1941. Artist A. Radakov


Poster No. 13 “Chatterbox is a godsend for a spy”

Here you see their different shapes:

– A tongue so long it can let slip a military secret.
– Two ears from each side: a fly flies into one, an elephant emerges from the other (a play on the saying “to make an elephant out of a fly”, that is, to magnify rumours).
– Glasses that are rosier than roses: he sees wolves-spies as innocent kids.
– Catch these helpers of the enemy, BE ON GUARD!


On June 22, three hours after the radio announcement of the outbreak of war, members of the Moscow Organisation of the Union of Artists: Mihail Cheremnyh, Nikolai Denisovsky and Pavel Sokolov-Skala met at the art salon at 11 Kuznetsky Bridge. They discussed the creation of an editorial office for the production of propaganda posters to help the front.
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Lukashenko’s Visit to Belgrade under NATO bombs

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This article with two video reportages (with transctipts) presenting footage of President Lukashenko’s visit to Yugoslavia on April 14, 1999 is an important historic testimony to one overlooked and forgotten reason for why NATO, with the help of the armed terrorists on the ground, was so relentlessly bombing and dismantling Yugoslavia. This reason is mentioned in both videos almost as a footnote – Yugoslavia intended to join the Union state of Russian and Belorussia. However, it may nave been the main reason for the NATO’s savagery.


Under NATO bombs: On April 14, 1999, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko flew to Yugoslavia

NATO not only did not guarantee flight safety, but also sent fighter jets to intercept. Lukashenko did not change his plans. The alliance’s airstrikes continued both during the negotiations and during the trips of the Belarusian president to Belgrade.

At the talks with Slobodan Milošević, Lukashenko represented the agreed position of Belarus and Russia. He was saying: “If we get even one millimetre closer to peace, we will be very satisfied.”

However, just a few months later, Yugoslavia ceased to exist.

Source: Sputnik Belarus


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Aleksander Lukashenko was not scared off. Despite the warnings of NATO bosses that he would not be guaranteed security in Belgrade, he still flew to the Yugoslav capital.

He flew with one goal: to bring peace in Yugoslavia closer by at least a few millimetres.

“I am glad that I flew to Belgrade at this difficult time for this country. And I think that, as I said at the airport in Minsk, if we, at this time, get a few millimeters closer to peace, and if this Belarusian delegation will contribute to this, [we will be very satisfied]”.

During the talks with Milosevich, Lukashenko first of all relied on his friendly relations with the Yugoslav leader. However, he was speaking not only from his own name.

“This is a conceptual continuation of the negotiations that were started here with Evgeny Maksimovich Prymakov. We coordinated with him every day, clarified the positions. And only yesterday we agreed on one new idea that could promote the peace process here. I will not talk about it yet, we will discuss it with the President.

That is, we have a whole set of items, mutually agreed upon by Belarus and Russia. I am most likely speaking here as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Belarus and Russia, not only as the President of Belarus.”

Lukashenko discussed the agreed position of Russia and Belarus for two and a half hours with Slobodan Milošević.

This was happening to the sound of air raid alarm, sounded in Belgrade a few minutes after the landing of the plane of the Belarusian President and against the background of new bomb strikes by NATO aviation.

The main thing that Lukashenko ascertained during the negotiations is that the President of Yugoslavia is firmly determined to preserve the territorial integrity of the country, ensure equal rights for all its citizens and does not try to draw Belarus and Russia into a war in the Balkans.

According to Lukashenko, this is what NATO and other interested parties should use the starting point.

In addition, the Yugoslav President once again confirmed his desire to solve all problems peacefully and stated the readiness to bring into Kosovo the UN civil observers and other international organisations not associated with the aggressor countries.

Slobodan Milosevich handed over to the Belarusian President the official request for the entry of Yugoslavia into the Union of Russia and Belarus.


The frontier beyond which they would never retreat

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