[Тютчев]

Not only the means of ideological weapons fought the enemy artists of our country. Many of them became soldiers of the Soviet Army. They participated in the fight against the fascists in the combat units of the army, guerrillas, the militia. But at the front, they never ceased to be artists. In his spare time, combat operations, they never parted with field reviews, making a cursory sketches, sketching sketches, songs of future films.
Portraits of heroes-warriors, satirical drawings, sketches of the front, appearing in newspapers and propaganda sheet, strengthened the morale of Soviet soldiers.
During the war has grown, many new talented artists, actively involved in creative work.
In the most severe days of 1942, when the enemy approached the capital, Moscow and Leningrad were open art exhibitions. The ideas of patriotism, the content of art of this period. Paphos heroics, the glorification of the Soviet man-winner sounded in the picturesque canvases of artists of the war years.
On the persistence and courage of the Soviet people, of heroism and bravery of Soviet women and mothers told the artist C. V. Gerasimov in the film «Mother partisan" (1943). Immortal feat Zoe Kosmodemyans'koi inspired artists Kukryniksy to create a picture of «Tanya».