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A jarring poster. Supports the article well, demonstrating the Nazi party's use of of propaganda to create external enemies for the German people. Warning: High resolution image. Use the courtesy file if you're just glancing at it. Unrestored version: File:Bolschewismus ohne Maske.jpg. Articles in which this image appears Nazi propaganda
) is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster by El Lissitzky. In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the White movement, during the Russian Civil War. The image gained popularity in the West upon Lissitzky's migration to Germany in 1921.
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Anti-Bolshevik propaganda was created in opposition to the events on the Russian political scene. The Bolsheviks were a radical and revolutionary wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which came to power during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Bolshevik propaganda poster from the Russian Civil War with an allusion of Saint George and the Dragon with Red Army leader Leon Trotsky as being a Saint George figure who was slaying the dragon which represented counter-revolution. The symbol of Saint George slaying the dragon was and still is a Russian national symbol.
April 1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd's Finland railway station packed with supporters. July 1917 The demonstrations in Nevsky Square are fired upon by the army. The government orders the working class to be cut off from the city center, and in a dramatic sequence the bridges are raised with the bodies of the Bolsheviks still on them ...
The broadcasts were full of tirades about Yankee-swine, stink-Japs, Russian pig–Bolsheviks, and Italian lemon-faces. He called Churchill a “dirty, Jew-loving drunk.” The sex and swearing ...
Anti-Bolshevik propaganda suggested that the Bolsheviks did not have the support of the Russian people and thus had to resort to foreign mercenaries who ran roughshod over the Russian populace. [24] In 1918, Dmitri Gavronsky, a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, asserted that the Bolsheviks based their power chiefly on foreign support.