Te! sötétben bujkáló rémhírterjesztő ellenforradalmár reszkess! (You! Tremble, counter-revolutionary rumour-monger lurking in the dark!)
A Red Army soldier in a red-starred cap points straight at the viewer with a rifle at his side, over the lettered command 'You, lurking in the dark, rumour-spreading counter-revolutionary, tremble!' The tell is the direct address: the sheet issues no argument, it attaches a ready-made label to an unnamed 'you' and pairs it with a threat.
- Date
- 1919
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Hungarian Soviet Republic, People's Commissariat for Public Education (Közoktatásügyi Népbiztosság), Army Propaganda Department (Hadsereg Propaganda Ügyosztálya); artist not named on the sheet
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Leader
- Bela Kun
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Hungarian Soviet Republic
- Techniques
- Name-callingFear appeal
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan attributed to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1919 in Hungary, before 1931; Commons PD-Art/PD-old tag, PDM 1.0)
Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919; scan via Wikimedia Commons (source given as hoover.org).
Text on the object
Te! sötétben bujkáló rémhír- terjesztő ellenfor- radalmár reszkess! KIADJA: KÖZOKTATÁSÜGYI NÉPBIZTOSSÁG HADSEREG PROPAGANDA ÜGYOSZTÁLYA.
You! lurking in the dark, rumour- spreading counter- revolutionary, tremble! PUBLISHED BY: PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, ARMY PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT.
A faint handwritten line and date at the lower right are not legible and are omitted. Line breaks follow the poster's hyphenated layout. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
