Content note: Cartoon of a giant red fist smashing a conference table and sending caricatured politicians and officers sprawling; the headline calls them scoundrels. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Bitangok! Ezt akartátok? (Scoundrels! Is this what you wanted?), Hungarian Soviet Republic poster, 1919
A giant red fist bursts through the arched windows of a conference room and smashes the table, sending top-hatted and uniformed men sprawling. The tell is the headline, which addresses the targets as 'Bitangok' (scoundrels, rascals) and asks 'Is this what you wanted?', labelling them before any claim is made.
- Date
- 1919
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Hungarian Soviet Republic (poster by Mihály Bíró)
- Country
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Bela Kun
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1919; artist died 1948, Commons PD-old-75/PD-old-70)
Mihály Bíró, 'Bitangok! Ezt akartátok?', 1919, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
Text on the object
Bitangok! Ezt akartátok? [illegible initials near the lower left and lower right edges]
Scoundrels! Is this what you wanted?
Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 'Bitangok' is rendered 'scoundrels'; Commons renders it 'Rascals'.
