Probably just a regular hammer, in line with soviet hammer and sickle iconography.
MagicBez2025-10-09 10:59
Yup, this is 100% a remake of a classic soviet poster with him inserted (just like they added him to a bunch of old soviet military parade footage)
Specifically it looks like a Golanov
Edit - almost a perfect mirror of ~~[this image](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/)~~ [this image](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213) which I strongly suspect is the inspiration
FelixEylie2025-10-09 11:10
Sadly they used the current Russian anthem instead of the Soviet one, they have the same music but different lyrics.
magpye19832025-10-09 11:55
It looks like the hammer has a soviet symbol (flag??) at the *top* of the head. It’s blurry, so I can’t be sure.
TheLostRanger01172025-10-09 14:24
Yes, true, but they also could have made the hammer look more like the “hammer and sickle” hammer, where as that on the poster does look more like Mjolnir, tho it is longer
MagicBez2025-10-09 14:33
I think they were using a [specific poster](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/) as a reference where the hammer looks the same
TheLostRanger01172025-10-09 14:58
Yeah, I didn’t think about that, that it would be off of an already existing poster, but makes sense
pork_chop_expressss2025-10-09 15:02
[Nah, it's a copy of this one](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213)
MagicBez2025-10-09 15:19
Yeah you're absolutely right
BlackSpyder7142025-10-09 16:14
up correct
gnetic2025-10-10 22:49
That being said it would be HILARIOUS is it was Mjolnir or Stormbreaker
TrainingSword2025-10-09 10:47
No
green_thunder62025-10-09 10:47
Nope, just a hammer. The handle is too long to be Mjölnir.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 10:54
It could be an illustration.
recoilwhenyouwake2025-10-09 10:56
Or it could be a just a hammer.
T0Rtur32025-10-09 10:59
Or it could be a tiny refrigerator glued to a mop handle. No way of knowing really.
Boomerang5372025-10-09 11:05
Nah a refrigerator would break after a few swings, it has to be Nokia phone attached to the end.
SailorET2025-10-09 11:29
It's actually an illustration of a hammer.
iamnotexactlywhite2025-10-09 10:57
it’s just Soviet propaganda
shilgrod2025-10-09 11:00
Well it is an illustration, but in MCU timeline thor wasn't around midgard at the time
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 11:02
It can also be new. Like something Alexei had gotten online.
shilgrod2025-10-09 12:11
Can't be a new thing AND mjolnir
Creepy_Recording_1132025-10-09 12:52
I'm confused at you asking a question and then arguing with the answers to said question
GottLiebtJeden2025-10-09 13:02
I was thinking the exact same thing lol I don't know why people do that
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 14:53
Lol.
And anwser: I thought it was Mjölnir for 5 months and was not ready to give up that belief immediately.
ansonr2025-10-09 16:25
You should read about the history of the soviet union. Also don't get emotionally invested in a belief and then ask others if its correct.
Type_1002025-10-09 11:12
Handle is too long, part of Mjolnir's lore is that it always has a really short handle.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 11:16
I know that in Mjölnir’s lore. But if this were an illustration with Mjölnir then it is possible the handle’s length is just a mistake.
fast_flashdash2025-10-09 11:41
Or it’s not the hammer. Gonna go with not the hammer
Life_Reference_65542025-10-09 12:20
Why or how would it be more likely to be Mjölnir than a normal hammer
WeirdIndividualGuy2025-10-09 18:01
Also the face of the head of the hammer is a plain rectangle shape, vs [Mjolnir](https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Mj%C3%B8lnir?file=Reformed_Mjolnir.png) that's more of a stop sign-trapezoid mix and not a regular 4-sided rectangle face
green_thunder62025-10-09 19:55
Indeed!
Obvious-Water5692025-10-09 10:53
That does seem like the kind of thing Alexei would have.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 10:53
Yep.
Boomerang5372025-10-09 10:53
That looks like it’s being held up by two arms. Mjolnir is small enough to be held in one.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 10:53
Yk it could just be a painting.
Boomerang5372025-10-09 10:58
Yeah a painting of a big hammer.
ninjapro982025-10-09 13:20
You seem awfully invested in this being mjölnir for some reason
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 13:21
It would’ve been cool if it was. It would be really funny.
jaeorj2025-10-09 13:25
You seem really adamant about it lol. If you really want it to be mjolnir to you, you are welcome to think what you want. This detail has no importance whatsoever.
cosmogyrals2025-10-09 15:12
OP's flair checks out.
magicaltrevor9532025-10-09 11:08
Maybe Alexei only had lil arms.
Boomerang5372025-10-09 11:10
So he’s like a dinosaur! Maybe you’re onto something, we don’t have enough proof to debunk your theory.
TheKnightWhoSaisNi2025-10-09 10:55
Not all hammers are called mjolnir
AsleepBroccoli87382025-10-09 10:59
not in my house…every hammer is mjolnir. Mostly because I can’t lift or weald them.
TheKnightWhoSaisNi2025-10-09 11:01
At least you can lift two hammers near your eardrums, be positive. (Please don't be deaf 🙏)
i guess it's a reference to this soviet propaganda poster.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 11:03
Cool!
FelixEylie2025-10-09 11:11
Ironically, this is an anti-alcohol poster.
lerdmeister2025-10-09 11:14
indeed
>“We hammer away! There is nothing to joke about with drunkenness. It needs to be beaten culturally, violently, ardently, angrily. Hammer away, every day, at every step. Don’t give in to the enemy.”
~~It's ironic because the communist way kind of caused alcoholism to be so rampant. Since you couldn't accept money for providing any kind of service, you'd always give a bottle of vodka instead~~
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GreenHeel972025-10-09 17:20
That's...not at all what it was. You could absolutely accept cash for payment in the Soviet Union, the problem was that (As far as I recall, I'm not a Soviet history expert) due to the government monopoly on vodka and other alcohol production, the Soviet government was kind of dependent on sales of vodka, with some estimates being that alcohol revenue made up 10% of the Soviet budget. I pulled some related sources on distribution of vodka in the USSR for you from r/askhistorians, credit to u/Kochevnik81
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism
Daniel Tarschys. "The Success of a Failure: Gorbachev's Alcohol Policy, 1985-88" Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 45, No. 1 (1993), pp. 7-25
Vladimir G. Treml. "Alcohol in the USSR: A Fiscal Dilemma". Soviet Studies.Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1975), pp. 161-177
dogsfurhire2025-10-09 17:29
~~Listen man, I'm not going to tell you I know that much about the entiredy of the Soviet union history, my comment comes from anecdotal stories from several people I knew who grew up in the Soviet union.~~
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GreenHeel972025-10-09 17:31
Yeah, I'm just saying the idea you 'couldn't accept money' is factually wrong. Not trying to be mean or demeaning, just making sure you and everyone who reads both of our comments gets their history right.
dogsfurhire2025-10-09 18:00
You know what, I asked them just now and you're completely right, I misunderstood them. It's not that they had no money, they had very little money so you'd do favors for your neighbors and friends and maybe take a little money but everyone had vodka (or moonshine) so it was basically an extension of their money. Then the old culture used to be, you had to take a drink if offered a bottle and so everyone would drink all the time.
GreenHeel972025-10-09 18:02
Thanks, and good for you for being a big enough person to admit to being wrong.
MagicBez2025-10-09 14:34
[this Golanov](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/) poster is an even closer match
pork_chop_expressss2025-10-09 15:03
[This is what they copied](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213)
Caesar_Rising2025-10-09 11:03
It’s just a hammer, there are many many hammers in the world that are not Thors.
ccReptilelord2025-10-09 12:10
True, it was revealed that he is not the god of hammers.
TexasPeteEnthusiast2025-10-09 15:03
This is my hammer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
IowaDad812025-10-09 17:12
And the one in the Red Guardian poster looks more like a strongman hammer than Mojolnir. That works thematically for a super soldier, and also fits into Soviet iconography.
Perun is a Russian god hero. Sometimes he has an ax, but other times he has both a hammer and a sickle.
There's also Sam Rockwell.
Stevenwave2025-10-09 11:13
Look up the flag of the USSR. Look closely. Tell me what you see.
Alexei with a hammer is like stars and stripes on Steve Rogers.
feedback192025-10-09 20:56
Holy shit! Odin was from Russia?! s/
Agreeable_Use_38342025-10-09 11:18
It sure the fuck is. I never noticed that.
Ofiotaurus2025-10-09 11:22
It’s just a regular hammer lmao
mikoleaf2025-10-09 11:24
Maybe it's Perun's hammer
Dr_Reaktor2025-10-09 11:25
Considering Alexei is striking a chain is might be a reference to the soviet propaganda poster "Knowledge will break the chains of slavery""
MagicBez2025-10-09 14:37
Suspect it's [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/) - "for a world without weapons"
*Edit* or [this one](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213) which is even closer
Thomas_JCG2025-10-09 11:38
Nope, just a reference to old Soviet posters.
MagicBez2025-10-09 14:36
Likely [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/) was used as a reference
*Edit* - or [this one](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213)
Hammers very popular in soviet propaganda posters
SimonShepherd2025-10-09 11:44
Probably just a soviet propaganda poster of Alexei depicted as a vanguard for the working class or something.(Hammer and sickle aesthetic and all that.)
otsim2025-10-09 11:58
Handle too long to be Mjolnir. Looks like he's using a big hammer to break the chains over an anvil
Jaded-Monitor30432025-10-09 12:14
I see a HOG RIDER
madmardigan132025-10-09 12:36
[ Believe that's a de Kooning](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxsOvgvKeTZqYWVG7pPWNc2ANyZIELM5oR?si=63R9pBxq5fs8_meH)
irishyardball2025-10-09 12:45
Pretty sure it's just a Soviet era poster of him. But that's an interesting thought.
I wonder if he would be deemed worthy to lift Mjolnir. He isn't inherently evil, willing to sacrifice himself for a greater good, etc.
Joetheshow12025-10-09 12:46
Hammers exist in the MCU that aren't Mjolnir lol
Pheonyx19742025-10-09 12:51
The handle is too long to be Mjölnir.
GottLiebtJeden2025-10-09 13:01
I think it's just a hammer representing the USSR. He was only used for propaganda, kind of like Cap, at the beginning, was only used to get people to buy war bonds
Thwipped2025-10-09 13:39
Russian worker’s propaganda
_Nodnarb04_2025-10-09 13:47
Surely this can't be a serious post 😭
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 13:48
Do you even know Alexei?
_Nodnarb04_2025-10-09 13:50
Do you?
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 13:52
Yes.
_Nodnarb04_2025-10-09 13:59
Sure...let's just ignore the fact that all of his stuff is from the the 70s/80s when the world didn't even know that Thor existed and that it's all Soviet Union propaganda. The same Soviet Union which had a HAMMER and sickle on the flag. Also why would he even have a poster of him using "mjolnir" to break chains and who would even make it anyway considering no one has ever really heard of him until the end of Thunderbolts and he definitely doesn't have photoshop skills to do it
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 14:02
He was the Soviet Union version of Captain America. It would not be a surprise for him to pay someone online to make an image of him holding another superhero’s item.
_Nodnarb04_2025-10-09 14:06
It's NOT mjolnir! Please read a book and look at Soviet Union history. The hammer on the flag is the exact same as the one he has in the poster because it's a PROPAGANDA poster from the 80s!
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 14:37
I get it. It would just be cool if it was.
Dr_Moriartyy2025-10-09 16:01
Ikr. Very very dumb.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 17:32
This sub just has very very critical.
agravain2025-10-09 13:52
its SkullCrusher. 🎅
Bigguygamer852025-10-09 14:24
Its probably a soviet propaganda poster.
Tsarbursts2025-10-09 14:35
Based on all your replies in this thread it seems safe to say that for you, yes it's Mjolnir.
For the rest of us it's not, it's just a hammer (as many have said) in line with USSR vibes. But don't let that stop it being Mjolnir for you.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 14:38
It has stopped it being Mjölnir for me…
Tsarbursts2025-10-09 15:42
Live whatever truth you want my guy. It's the only way
serimuka_macaron2025-10-09 14:36
My guy, have you never seen any communist propaganda art from the 80s?
Earth5132025-10-09 14:39
I know you're getting hate for overly insisting it's Mijolnir despite being given proof it's a reference to an actual poster, but it got me thinking:
Why do you want it to be Mjolnir so bad? Do you just like the idea of Alexei being worthy? Do you just like the idea of him being that pompous that he's gotten someone to illustrate him with it?
I'm just curious ahaha
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 14:41
The comments did make me understand what the poster actually is. I originally thought that Alexei had someone make him that. It’s just something that Alexei would totally do and it would be pretty funny.
Earth5132025-10-10 04:00
Ahaha super valid and I definitely get where you got that idea from it wouldn't be unexpected for someone whose whole shtick is living in the past and exaggerating his achievements to live one moment of glory
Operator_Starlight2025-10-09 14:48
No.
That’s a poster of Alexei being a communist.
Pristine-Passage-1002025-10-09 14:53
That’s obviously not Mjolnir, the handle is way too long. He’s holding it with two hands
clangan5242025-10-09 15:05
I swear, you idiots learn nothing in school
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 15:06
History was always hard for me to learn. And I don’t recall learning much about the Soviet Union.
Bby_1nAB13nder2025-10-09 18:04
You never learned about the Cold War and how it caused a lot of political issues and scientific development including getting the first human into space and walking on the moon? What school did you go to so I can avoid sending my future kids to it.
feedback192025-10-09 20:52
To be fair, I grew up in Texas and graduated high school in '06, and we literally never covered the Cold War or hardly any real politics at all. Public education in the American south is beyond lacking.
GottLiebtJeden2025-10-09 20:36
How is history hard to learn? There's nothing to it. You just absorb it. It's not like learning calculus or anything like that, or chemistry. You just read it..
Ok-Grass30712025-10-10 08:15
There is so much info in the books. And our history books were sh*t. The chapters would go from one year and country to totally different ones. It was very complicated.
GottLiebtJeden2025-10-10 10:29
I'm just talking about the learning part. And maybe you have bad teachers on top of bad textbooks. I personally love learning history because there is a pattern to everything, and it's simple, unlike chemistry or calculus for example.
GottLiebtJeden2025-10-10 10:36
But I also would highly encourage doing independent research, not on Google per se, but various forms, some being books, maybe audio books to make it easier and quicker, and just aggregating things, so you can draw your own conclusions. Sometimes Google can help, but you can use other browsers, to get more unfiltered answers. A lot of books on certain topics are free, if you know where to look lol It will become fun, I promise you, when you do it on your own. I was already big into history when I was in school, and I had a bad teacher one year, so me and my brother were literally teaching the other students around us. So I understand that part.
blue_collar_curator2025-10-09 15:07
No.
justbeane2025-10-09 15:10
When all you know is comic books, ever hammer is a Mjolnir.
Ok-Grass30712025-10-09 15:11
I actually am more of a movie watcher than a comic reader. One of my favorite characters is Thor, so.
Prudent_Debt32732025-10-09 16:08
Dream Alexei.
TheDiabeT1c2025-10-09 17:05
AnonymousFriend802025-10-09 17:07
Since when has Thor's hammer's handle been that long?
AnonymousFriend802025-10-09 17:09
After looking at all of OP's responses, is he roleplaying the part of an idiot?
bswalsh2025-10-09 17:19
No
Amanroth872025-10-09 19:50
It is the hammer by which the common worker breaks their chains and RISES up against the capitalist bourgeoisie
alex4942025-10-09 19:55
No it's just Soviet imagery involving hammers. Notice he's smashing chains apart or something in the image.
Raj_Valiant30112025-10-09 20:41
More like promoting propaganda for the Soviets.
Plan7_8oy782025-10-09 20:47
Hammers exist outside of the MCU.
Stinky_Eastwood2025-10-09 20:49
I think we can assume Soviet era propaganda wasn't drawing that specifically from Nordic mythology, especially decades before Thor himself showed up on Earth.
Actual_Squid2025-10-09 22:53
No
Temporary_Notice_4692025-10-10 00:08
No!
Dlh20792025-10-10 03:39
Every hammer isnt mjolnir
giovix2022025-10-10 11:25
If you look carefully it represents the ideology against capitalism of the hammer that breaks the chain
Animala1442025-10-10 11:44
How has this post gotten some many upvotes?
Since when was the handle that long?
Also, what was one of the biggest symbols associated with the Soviet Union?
ColonelSabotage2025-10-10 12:22
No thats Alexei with Johnathan
Humble_Yam_87212025-10-11 02:57
nicee
boinkmagoink2025-10-11 03:49
That would be cool
E-Normus-Titz2025-10-11 04:31
Eh? I was just looking at something else.
Hot-Flight60892025-10-11 23:26
It's probably more supposed to be the soviet hammer
Commentaires
Specifically it looks like a Golanov
Edit - almost a perfect mirror of ~~[this image](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/uhg6s2/for_world_for_peace_without_weapons_without/)~~ [this image](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213) which I strongly suspect is the inspiration
And anwser: I thought it was Mjölnir for 5 months and was not ready to give up that belief immediately.
i guess it's a reference to this soviet propaganda poster.
>“We hammer away! There is nothing to joke about with drunkenness. It needs to be beaten culturally, violently, ardently, angrily. Hammer away, every day, at every step. Don’t give in to the enemy.”
[https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/03/17/we-hammer-away-a-look-at-soviet-propaganda-posters/](https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/03/17/we-hammer-away-a-look-at-soviet-propaganda-posters/)
I'm completely wrong, read following comments
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Everyday Stalinism
Daniel Tarschys. "The Success of a Failure: Gorbachev's Alcohol Policy, 1985-88" Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 45, No. 1 (1993), pp. 7-25
Vladimir G. Treml. "Alcohol in the USSR: A Fiscal Dilemma". Soviet Studies.Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1975), pp. 161-177
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There's also Sam Rockwell.
Alexei with a hammer is like stars and stripes on Steve Rogers.
*Edit* or [this one](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213) which is even closer
*Edit* - or [this one](https://www.posterplakat.com/the-collection/posters/to-the-soviet-people-the-first-builder-of-socialism-glory-pp-213)
Hammers very popular in soviet propaganda posters
I wonder if he would be deemed worthy to lift Mjolnir. He isn't inherently evil, willing to sacrifice himself for a greater good, etc.
For the rest of us it's not, it's just a hammer (as many have said) in line with USSR vibes. But don't let that stop it being Mjolnir for you.
Why do you want it to be Mjolnir so bad? Do you just like the idea of Alexei being worthy? Do you just like the idea of him being that pompous that he's gotten someone to illustrate him with it?
I'm just curious ahaha
That’s a poster of Alexei being a communist.
Since when was the handle that long?
Also, what was one of the biggest symbols associated with the Soviet Union?