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title: Proletarians of All Countries, Unite! (XII years of October)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/proletarians-of-all-countries-unite-xii-october-1929/
description: A red-clad worker with a rifle and a flaming 'Comintern' banner strides over two toppled figures, a top-hatted capitalist on a bulging moneybag and a…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Soviet poster with grotesque green-skinned caricatures of a capitalist and a Social Democrat officer being trampled. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Proletarians of All Countries, Unite! (XII years of October)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/proletarians-of-all-countries-unite-xii-october-1929.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/proletarians-of-all-countries-unite-xii-october-1929.jpg)

# Proletarians of All Countries, Unite! (XII years of October)

A red-clad worker with a rifle and a flaming 'Comintern' banner strides over two toppled figures, a top-hatted capitalist on a bulging moneybag and a helmeted officer wearing an 'S-D' badge, against a skyline of smoking factories lettered 'USSR' and a seal reading 'XII years of October'. The opponents are drawn as grotesque, green-skinned types and the title is the call to unite: the name-calling tell.

## Text on the object

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

```
КОМИНТЕРН

XII ЛЕТ ОКТЯБРЯ

СССР

[on the moneybag: a figure of 1 followed by zeros, count not reliably legible]
[on the officer's collar badge: С-Д]

ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН,
СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ!

35 коп.
[illegible: imprint line in small type along the bottom edge]
```

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

```
COMINTERN

XII YEARS OF OCTOBER

USSR

[figure on the moneybag]
[badge: S-D]

PROLETARIANS OF ALL COUNTRIES,
UNITE!

35 kop.
[illegible]
```

Pencilled library annotations at the top left are omitted; the small imprint line and the digits on the moneybag are not reliably legible.

[← Long Live the First of May: Under the Lenin Banner of the Comintern, Forward!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deni-long-live-the-first-of-may-1929/) [Все в библиотеку! Каждый батрак, бедняк, колхозник должен стать читателем библиотеки (Everyone to the Library! Every Farmhand, Poor Peasant and Collective Farmer Must Become a Library Reader) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vse-v-biblioteku-batrak-bednyak-kolkhoznik-1929/)

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