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title: 'Krokodil No. 20 (130), May 1925: How Much Land Does a Former Man Need? (cover, Malyutin)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/krokodil-how-much-land-malyutin-1925/
description: 'Magazine cover: a beaming, heavy-set man in a peaked cap and long coat carries a potted flower and trundles a wheelbarrow of belongings from a columned…'
section: Collection
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# Krokodil No. 20 (130), May 1925: How Much Land Does a Former Man Need? (cover, Malyutin)

Magazine cover: a beaming, heavy-set man in a peaked cap and long coat carries a potted flower and trundles a wheelbarrow of belongings from a columned manor house, past two watching peasants. The title labels him a 'former man' and the caption gives him a complaint of a landowner evicted from his estate. The 'former' label on a comic figure is the name-calling tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
ГОД ИЗДАНИЯ ТРЕТИЙ.
Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!
МОСКВА. МАЙ 1925 г.
№ 20 (130)
Цена 15 коп.
КРОКОДИЛ
Рис. Ив. Малютина.
МНОГО ЛИ БЫВШЕМУ ЧЕЛОВЕКУ ЗЕМЛИ НУЖНО?
ПОМЕЩИК, ИЗГОНЯЕМЫЙ ИЗ ИМЕНИЯ: — А все-таки и я владеть землей имею право...
```

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

```
THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
MOSCOW. MAY 1925
No. 20 (130)
Price 15 kop.
CROCODILE
Drawing by Iv. Malyutin.
DOES A FORMER MAN NEED MUCH LAND?
LANDOWNER BEING EVICTED FROM HIS ESTATE: — And all the same, I too have the right to own land...
```

Literal translation by Claude (machine translation, not fluent-reader verified). Handwritten numeral at top is a library annotation and is not transcribed.

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