--- title: 'Красный подарок белому пану (A Red Gift for the White Lord): Soviet Polish-Soviet War poster' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krasny-podarok-belomu-panu-1920/ description: A grinning worker and a Red Army soldier heft an outsized red artillery shell on their backs, aimed at a tiny, plump cartoon nobleman with a sabre at the… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Красный подарок белому пану (A Red Gift for the White Lord): Soviet Polish-Soviet War poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krasny-podarok-belomu-panu-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/krasny-podarok-belomu-panu-1920.jpg) # Красный подарок белому пану (A Red Gift for the White Lord): Soviet Polish-Soviet War poster A grinning worker and a Red Army soldier heft an outsized red artillery shell on their backs, aimed at a tiny, plump cartoon nobleman with a sabre at the right edge, under the headline 'A Red Gift for the White Lord' and the line 'give the lord one in the forehead with this little suitcase'. The label 'white lord' (biely pan) and the shrunken comic figure turn the opposing side into a stock class-enemy type. - **Date:** 1920 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Polish-Soviet War agitation); artist Dmitry Moor - **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia) - **Country:** [Soviet Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=soviet-russia) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Soviet Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=soviet-russia) - **Leader:** [Vladimir Lenin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=vladimir-lenin) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor) - **Event:** [Polish Soviet War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=polish-soviet-war) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Podarok_panu.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published 1920; Commons: PD-Russia-expired, PD-Art) Dmitry Moor, Red Gift for the White Lord, RSFSR, 1920; via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Российская Социалистическая Федеративная Советская Республика. Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! КРАСНЫЙ ПОДАРОК БЕЛОМУ ПАНУ ДВИНЬ-КА ЭТИМ ЧЕМОДАН- ЧИКОМ ПАНА В ЛОБ Д. Моор. Москва D. Moor. Moskou [handwritten mark at bottom right, illegible] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Workers of all countries, unite! RED GIFT FOR THE WHITE LORD GIVE THE LORD ONE IN THE FOREHEAD WITH THIS LITTLE SUITCASE D. Moor. Moscow D. Moor. Moskou [as printed] [handwritten mark, illegible] ``` The top line spells 'Российская Социалистическая' as printed on the poster. 'Moskou' in the bottom-right imprint is transcribed as printed. A small handwritten mark at the bottom right edge is not legible. [← Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-broni-poland-1920/) [Wolność Bolszewicka (Bolshevik Freedom): Polish Army propaganda poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wolnosc-bolszewicka-poland-1920/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Exit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exit-liberte-buonaparte-gillray-1799/) (Nov 21, 1799 · Name-calling) - [Van Moscouw tot Elba moest ik wyken (From Moscow to Elba I had to give way), Napoleon caricature by Wijnand Esser](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/van-moscouw-tot-elba-napoleon-esser-1814/) (1814 · Name-calling)