Братерство, рівність. Чу-чу! Гидь московська! (Fraternity, Equality. Shoo! Muscovite Filth!): Ukrainian People's Republic leaflet-poster
A man in a long traditional coat and sash, seen from behind with a pitchfork and sabre, faces two horned, shaggy, demon-like figures: one wears a double-headed eagle emblem on its chest, the other a shackle on its wrist and a sabre. The header pairs the revolutionary slogan 'Fraternity, equality' with the bottom line 'Shoo! Muscovite filth!', so the printed label, not an argument, marks the imperial Russian side as vermin to be driven off.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Vernyhora publishing house, Kyiv (Ukrainian national-revolution prints of the Central Rada period); artist Bohush Shippikh
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukrainian People Republic
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Ukrainian Central Rada
- Leader
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Race and ethnicity, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Ukrainian Revolution 1917
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1917 in Kyiv; Commons: PD-Ukraine, and published before 1931)
Bohush Shippikh, published by Vernyhora, Kyiv, 1917; via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
БРАТЕРСТВО [ornament] РІВНІСТЬ Чу-Чу! ГИДЬ МОСКОВСЬКА! [artist's monogram at bottom left: Богуш Шіппіх, partly legible]
FRATERNITY [ornament] EQUALITY Shoo-shoo! MUSCOVITE FILTH! [artist's monogram at bottom left: Bohush Shippikh, partly legible]
'Чу-чу' is an interjection used to drive off animals; 'гидь' is a strongly pejorative word for something loathsome or vile. The small monogram at bottom left is read as the artist's name and is only partly legible at the committed resolution. The committed image is the 500 px Wikimedia thumbnail, since the upload host was refusing downloads.
.png){kind=link}