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title: 'Long Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-long-live-the-first-of-may-1929/
description: A worker in a cap stands on a chained globe, one fist raised round a flag that bears Lenin's profile and the line 'Under the Lenin banner of the…
section: Collection
---

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# Long Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!

A worker in a cap stands on a chained globe, one fist raised round a flag that bears Lenin's profile and the line 'Under the Lenin banner of the Comintern, forward!', while the chains snap around him. Lenin's likeness and name are put on the banner to lend the May Day call his authority, which is the transfer tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
под Ленинским знаменем
Коминтерна — вперед!

ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ ПЕРВОЕ МАЯ

ДЕНИ 29 г.

[illegible: imprint line in small type along the bottom edge, including the State Publishing House, Moscow 1929 Leningrad]
```

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

```
under the Lenin banner
of the Comintern: forward!

LONG LIVE THE FIRST OF MAY

DENI 29

[illegible]
```

A pencilled English library annotation at the top left is omitted. The imprint line is too small to read reliably.

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