PP 1082 | Poster Plakat

Devastation and the Army of Labor.
Panel 1). The emblem of bondage has been smashed by the hand of the proletariat yet a shadow still surrounded the Soviet emblem. The DEVASTATION is frightening, and with the legacies of tsarist rule, a fierce fight remains in front of us still. Panel 2). Its offspring are savage COLD and HUNGER, and creeping PESTILENCE feeds on us among the filth. [Partial translation] — Devastation and the Army of Labor. Panel 1). The emblem of bondage has been smashed by the hand of the proletariat yet a shadow still surrounded the Soviet emblem. The DEVASTATION is frightening, and with the legacies of tsarist rule, a fierce fight remains in front of us still. Panel 2). Its offspring are savage COLD and HUNGER, and creeping PESTILENCE feeds on us among the filth. [Partial translation]

**Poster Number:** PP 1082

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** Verses on this poster are by the Soviet poet and satirist, Dem'ian Bedny (Yefim Pridvorov).

**Media Size:** 29x21

**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 381 poster 2353

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1082 Civil War c

Artist: Kochergin, Nikolai Mikhailovich — Кочергин, Николай Михайлович

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Printer: 2nd State Typography Lithography Workshop, Moscow — 2-я Государственная Типография, Москва

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Publisher: State Publishing House, Moscow — Государственное издательство, Москва

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