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A great battle is coming.  A decisive battle is approaching. All of Europe is full of clamor from voices of proletarians indignant and eager to struggle. Underground shocks are coming from different parts of our planet. In a thunderstorm and storm, in blood and tears, in hunger and eternal suffering [comes] a new world, a shining world of communism, a universal brotherhood born of working people. [Partial translation]

A great battle is coming. A decisive battle is approaching. All of Europe is full of clamor from voices of proletarians indignant and eager to struggle. Underground shocks are coming from different parts of our planet. In a thunderstorm and storm, in blood and tears, in hunger and eternal suffering [comes] a new world, a shining world of communism, a universal brotherhood born of working people. [Partial translation]

Poster Number: PP 1114
Category: Civil War
Poster Notes: War veteran writes in blood on wall: "To Socialism"; At top of poster, "Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. Workers of the world, unite!"; This poster was issued in Russian and in Ukrainian languages.
Media Size: 25x14.5
Poster Type: Lithograph
Publishing Date: 1920
Sources & Citation: Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 146, poster 95-96.
Catalog Notes: PP 1114 Civil War b
USSR Region: Ukrainian SSR
Language: Ukrainian
Artist: Spasskii, Vasilii Vasil'evich — Спасский, Василий Васильевич
Printer: Odessa Provincial Department of Printing — Одесский губернский отдел печати
The Odessa Provincial Department of Printing was overseen by VUTsIK, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
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Publisher: Publishing Department, Odessa Provincial Department of Printing — Издание Губернского отдела печати, Одесса
The publishing department was connected to the Odessa Provincial Department of Printing overseen by VUTsIK, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
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