Posters of the white days of the Civil War
But white propaganda mainly focused on creating the image of the enemy, paying little attention to what it is for the soldiers of their armies to shed blood. Lenin and Trotsky on the White Guard posters acquired truly infernal features. The struggle of the Bolsheviks against the Church gave White another trump card in the ideological struggle, as well as the presence in the Red Army of units consisting of Chinese. And some White Guard posters resemble illustrations from the notorious Nazi newspaper Stürmer — after all, not only Trotsky was a Jew, but many other Bolshevik leaders. The phrase “Foreigners will help us” appeared in the famous novel by Ilf and Petrov, but the positive image of “foreign countries” could not fail to appear on the White Guard posters - Entente for us! But does the Entente need a united and indivisible Russia? Such a logical question remained “behind the scenes”.
The verse on this poster reads:
Through blood and through corpses piles,
Kissing on a pale mouth,
Sends again the grandson of Judah
On Golgotha crucify Christ
I believe that the light of the day is near
Heart, wait! I believe and pray!
After hard days of Passion Week
God will rise again, and Russia will rise again!
This poster says that the Bolsheviks the place in hell.
Lenin and Trotsky are the doctors of sick Russia, who treat her with the help of bleeding.
Kolchak's poster
The expulsion of Trotsky from the Kuban
Two worlds, two systems
The poster is dedicated to the Campaign on Moscow undertaken by the Volunteer Army in 1919. As is known, for White this campaign ended in a crushing defeat.
another Kolchak's poster
and this poster is from the Kuban or Don
Japan on this poster is called friendly, but these, if I may say so, friends left a long memory about themselves in our Far East.
these days, this poster would fall under the famous Criminal Code article 282 on inciting ethnic hatred. But in the years of the Civil Penal Codes there wasn’t any at all — not whites, not red ones, not even green ones.
Red hand reaches for Siberian bread
If you change the national costumes of the unfortunate victims, then this caricature would be quite appropriately viewed in the pages of the notorious Nazi magazine Stürmer.
Here he is! The culprit of torture and death! Killer children and women! The bright image of L. D. Trotsky
The slogan from this poster was taken by the Nazi propagandists. But the Nazi version of the slogan during the Great Patriotic War sounded a bit different - “Take a twig, drive the Jew to Palestine!”.
Red Army in the ring of enemies
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