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Do any of you guys know of any Second World War Soviet propaganda that showed the government’s ideal of the perfect soldier?

Such as in the form of code of conduct pamphlets or newspaper articles about a Hero the Soviet Union that shows the ideal soldier.

Typoes and spelling fixed --Shep

I feel your english is lacking, but there is a plethora of heroes; not a single one. The USSR was always about collectivism. However, Panfilov, Gastello, Meresyev, Matrosov are all heroes who were much exalted.

It might make more sense to examine what the ideal Soviet soldier was made to be after the fact--that is, through study of postwar memorials. When I studied in Berlin, I got to see a lot of them, including the Soviet War Memorials in Tiergarten, Treptower Park, Schönholzer Heide, as well as the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. When applicable, the Soviet soldier is usually battle-worn but enduring, stepping confidently towards the future. The impression I always got from them was that the memorial was for those who died, but the Soviet army/people/ideology(represented by the soldier) would advance on.

"And it had produced the first of many Sevastopol heroes to be celebrated in Russian verse and song: the Five Sailors of Sevastopol. Their ammunition exhausted, each of the five men made bundles of their last grenades and flung themselves under onrushing German tanks, each man crippling a panzer."

Red Army Resurgent, 36