"The sweetest bloodsuckers."

Creator:

Kogout, Nikolai (Николай Когоут) (creator)

Date:

undated

Description:

"The sweetest bloodsuckers." On the bottom of the poster: "Give your soul to Jesus, and give the meat to a kulak." (Сладчайшие кровососы. Внизу: Отдай свою душу Иисусу, а мясо отдай кулаку). Anti-religious and anti-capitalist image of peasants draining their blood. The priest is depicted as a fox, an animal associated with being cunning.

Language:

Russian

Subject:

Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1943; Propaganda, Communist

Form/Genre:

Posters

Physical Description:

26.6 x 35.8 cm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Item number [P-07]. Gift of Thomas Woody. For full finding aid see https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.PRINTCOLLECTION18

Physical Location:

Print Collection 18, Drawer 102 Folder 1

Collection:

Early Soviet Posters Collection