Content note: Dehumanizing animal caricature of Poland as a drooling pig held by a figure labelled France. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Свинья, дрессированная в Париже (The Pig Trained in Paris)

A pig in a Polish four-cornered cap, labelled 'Ясновельможная Польша' ('Most Illustrious Poland'), drools in the arms of a man in a kepi marked 'ФРАНЦИЯ' (France) who holds a scroll reading 'Borders of 1772'. The title calls Poland a pig trained in Paris. The animal label and the puppet-and-handler pairing present the opposing state as a dependent of France.

Date: 1920
Period: Interwar
Made by: Gosizdat (State Publishing House), RSFSR; artist Viktor Deni
Region: Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country: Soviet Russia
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Soviet Russia
Leader: Vladimir Lenin
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Demonize
Theme: War and the military
Event: Polish Soviet War
Techniques: Name-calling
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1920; Commons: PD-Russia-expired, author Viktor Deni died 1946)
Viktor Deni (artist), Gosizdat, Moscow, 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!

!

ЯСНОВЕЛЬМОЖНАЯ ПОЛЬША
ФРАНЦИЯ
ГРАНИЦЫ 1772 года

Свинья, дрессированная в Париже.

[illegible — small printer's imprint, bottom left]
Государственное Издательство.
1920 г.

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

Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
Proletarians of all countries, unite!

!

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS POLAND [on the cap]
FRANCE [on the sleeve]
BORDERS OF 1772 [on the scroll]

The pig trained in Paris.

[illegible]
State Publishing House.
1920.

The small lithographic imprint at bottom left is too small to read in this scan and is omitted.