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Pseudoscience

Propaganda of Violence

War

Sadism

Drug Addiction

For Those Without Memory...

Theft

Child Labor

Poverty

Prostitution

Ignorance

Alcoholism

Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices, a sculptural composition in Moscow, installed in 2001.

Flag of Penza Oblast (until 2022)

Flag of the City of Shuya

Flag of the City of Krasnoyarsk

Flag of Novokharitonovskoye Rural Settlement of Moscow Oblast

Flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Flag of Irkutsk Oblast

Flag of Magnitogorsk

Flag of Zheleznogorsk

Flag of Palekhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast

"The Pogrom of the liquor store" (1917)

"The Arrest of the Tsarist Generals" (1918)

"In the theater. The Royal Lodge" (1918)

"Vandalism in the Winter Palace" (1918)

"The Relocation of an evicted Family" (1918)

"Russian clergy on forced labor" (1918)

"The Burning of Eagles and Royal portraits" (1918)

"In the cellars of the Cheka" (1919)

"The search for food in the garbage pit" (1919)

"Famine in Petrograd, butchering a fallen horse" (1919)

"The Shooting of white officers" (1919)

"The shooting of peasants by White Cossacks" (1919)

"The requisition of cattle from peasants" (1919)

"The Agitator" 1920

"seizure of grain from peasants" 1920

"Peasants' Massacre of a Commissar from the Food Squad" (1922)

"Bolsheviks Opening Bank Lockers" 1921

"Nighttime looting of a Red Cross relief train." (1922)

The flight of the bourgeoisie from Novorossiysk. (1926)

"A wonder of nature! A woman with long hair!"

— "What kind of animal is that?" — "I don't know. It looks like a horse..."

— "Sir, sir! We have good, vacant apartments!"

— "Hello! Mars?"

— "What is this?" — "These are Russians who have been arguing since 1918 about whether Russia should be a democratic republic or a constitutional monarchy."

Paris in the Year 2000: A caricature from the Russian emigre press, 1928.

It is so hard to persuade people to lay down their arms… They are far more willing to lay each other to rest.

During wartime, they mass-produce shells; during peacetime, they cast bullets.

The Concert of Europe always ends with a military march.

Suvorov used to say: "The bullet is a fool." In his time, the League of Nations didn't exist yet.

It always begins with well-known diplomats and ends with the Unknown Soldier.

On War and Peace: A political cartoon from the Russian emigre press of the 1930s.

"I slept like the dead... Hmm... Like the dead? What a beautiful sunrise! Hmm... And what, I wonder, is the Land of the Rising Sun plotting now?"

"Midday. Wonderful... one can take cover from the scorching sun under an umbrella. Hmm... And what will Chamberlain do, in case...?"

"Oh, a snail!... By the way, I wonder how the Moscow negotiations are progressing?"

"What could be more beautiful than a bird, soaring and circling in the air?... Then again, that's probably how airplanes soar, right before they drop their bombs..."

"Let's arm ourselves with a fishing rod and go fishing, that'll calm the nerves... Hmm... 'arm ourselves'... I arm, you arm, he arms..."

"And I don't even have a gas mask!"

"A rope... If only one's nerves were as strong as this rope!"

"How picturesque, a tree against the blue sky!... And what if I were to tie one end of this rope to a branch, make a noose with the other, and..."

Let's Get Away from Politics a 1939 political cartoon from the Russian emigre press.

...how can you shoot yourself, when a special permit is required to acquire a revolver?

...how can you hang yourself, when the ceiling of your garret is so low that you bump your head on it?

...how can you poison yourself? The cheap little restaurants have already made your stomach immune to the strongest poisons...

So, Comrade Émigré, you are doomed to drag out your pathetic existence. But you can return to Soviet Russia...

Émigré (thinking): "Hmm... And this, after all, is the surest way to commit suicide!"

The Longing Emigres, dedicated to the Union for Return to the Homeland — a caricature from the Russian emigre press of the 1920s-1930s.

1962

Disabled: 4,000,000

10,000,000 killed and died of wounds

Total mobilized for the war: 68,000,000

Value of the national wealth of the major warring powers: 1,200 billion rubles. Spent on the war: 500 billion rubles

Wounded: 20,000,000

Suddenly, they ran into a Bolshevik: "Come along," he said. "I’m going to hang you!"

He seized them and led them away. "We should strike him and break free," thought the Rightist and the Leftist, but they immediately began to quarrel.

"I will not allow," said the Leftist, "for the blow to be struck from the right!"

"And I won't allow," shouted the Rightist, "for the blow to come from the left!"

So now they hang there, sticking their tongues out at each other. And the Bolshevik rejoices.

A Little Tale about the Leftist, the Rightist, and the Bolshevik — a political cartoon from the Russian emigre press of the 1930s.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

Text on the paper: "Trade Union Debate." Text on the wall: "RCP(b)."

Text on the paper: "NEP is a capitalist relic."

Text on the bridge: "General Line of the Party." Text on the flag: "Follow me!"

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

Text on the ship: "AUCP(b)."

Text on the paper: "From Trotsky."

Text: "Party Card."

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

Text on the wreath: "To a beloved friend."

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

Text on the rushnyk (embroidered towel): "Welcome."

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

The Story of a Betrayal — a series of political cartoons targeting G. L. Pyatakov. USSR, 1937.

Text on the flag: "Death to the traitors of the Motherland!"

keep off the grass

no spitting

do not touch

strictly prohibited, do not disclose, do not pass to others, cross the street only in a straight line

no public intoxication (police)

expressing dissatisfaction with the film is prohibited.

until further notice, thinking is prohibited

gas bill

Prohibitions — a cartoon by Herluf Bidstrup, published in the USSR in the 1960s.

Prohibitions — a cartoon by Herluf Bidstrup, published in the USSR in the 1960s.

Or Field Marshal Hindenburg making a living as a cabbie?

Or Mr. Baldwin working in the coal mines of the Donets Basin?

Or Baron Rothschild working as a petty money-changer?

Or Professor Nansen standing in line for hours to obtain a refugee passport?

And finally, can we imagine ourselves sitting at home and saying: “Oh, these foreigners are stealing our jobs!”?

If They Were Emigrants in Russia — a caricature from the Russian emigre press, 1930s.