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title: 'Bij bolszewika (Strike the Bolshevik): Polish lithograph poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bij-bolszewika-poland-1920/
description: A colour lithograph shows a Polish cavalryman with raised sabre riding down a grotesque, wide-eyed, gap-toothed face in a cap with a red star, under the…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Grotesque caricature of a Red Army soldier, shown being cut down by a cavalryman (Polish poster, 1920). This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Bij bolszewika (Strike the Bolshevik): Polish lithograph poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bij-bolszewika-poland-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bij-bolszewika-poland-1920.jpg)

# Bij bolszewika (Strike the Bolshevik): Polish lithograph poster

A colour lithograph shows a Polish cavalryman with raised sabre riding down a grotesque, wide-eyed, gap-toothed face in a cap with a red star, under the order 'Strike the Bolshevik'. The enemy soldier is drawn as a leering, bestial head rather than a person, so the label 'Bolshevik' arrives already attached to the caricature.

## Text on the object

Original (Polish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BIJ
BOLSZEWIKA

[signature, illegible] 1920

LITOGRAFIA A. [illegible], LWÓW
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
STRIKE
THE BOLSHEVIK

[signature, illegible] 1920

LITHOGRAPHY A. [illegible], LWÓW
```

Imprint is printed vertically at lower left in very small type and was read at low resolution; the surname after 'A.' is not reliably legible. Shelf mark at top right (library annotation) omitted.

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