1
And from the very dam //
Threads of a copper cobweb, //
Free from obstacles and obstructions, //
Will send this power to Leningrad –
2
The city of happiness and freedom. //
Then, its factories, //
By initiative from the Kremlin, //
Will come alive without need for coal;
3
And the village, where all the goods //
Have been purchased for a low price; //
Will carry far and wide the message: //
“This is what Ilyich (Lenin) has done for us!”
4
The woman is dressed in a traditional women’s outfit (the red bandana is especially notable) while holding the sickle and a blanket. This shows that she fits in a traditional Soviet woman’s role, preparing to go out to labor in the cold to serve the state.
5
The man is dressed in traditional attire which denotes him as living in the countryside, visible without looking to the depiction of labor at the bottom.
6
The houses behind them look well-built and modern, suggesting both the success of communism in improving peasant life as well as the contributions made by the Soviet people towards building communism.
7
The depiction of labor highlights agricultural labor, contrasted with the heavy industrialization of the rest of the book.