Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (Illustration)

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by Museum of Fine Arts Boston
published on 04 March 2025

*Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge,* a lithograph propaganda poster by Soviet artist El Lissitzky, 1920. In the poster, the red triangle represents the Bolsheviks and the Red Army penetrating and defeating the White movement, their opposition during the Russian Civil War (1917-1922).

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