PP 621 | Poster Plakat

The Tsar, the Priest and the Kulak.
All kulaks stand for the Tsar. And priests are weeping for the Tsar. That’s why under the Tsar the land fed the landlords. The landlord used to beat his peasant with two sticks. And the Tsar was the biggest landlord and all his ministers also were landlords. Because of this it is not surprising the Tsar kept watch over the land of the landlords, strangled peasants -- screwed them with huge taxes. Who prays for the Tsar? The priest who takes in return for his prayers easy money and church land and is screwing the peasant with church services. [Partial translation] — The Tsar, the Priest and the Kulak. All kulaks stand for the Tsar. And priests are weeping for the Tsar. That’s why under the Tsar the land fed the landlords. The landlord used to beat his peasant with two sticks. And the Tsar was the biggest landlord and all his ministers also were landlords. Because of this it is not surprising the Tsar kept watch over the land of the landlords, strangled peasants -- screwed them with huge taxes. Who prays for the Tsar? The priest who takes in return for his prayers easy money and church land and is screwing the peasant with church services. [Partial translation]

**Número de Cartel:** PP 621

**Información sobre el cartel:** Poster is in Ukrainian language. *Glitai* is the Ukrainian word for the Russian word, kulak. While glitai literally means swallow bird, it is used here for a person who is a blood-sucker.

**Tamaño:** 31.5x24

**Tipo de cartel:** Litografía

**Fecha de publicación:** 1918

**Información técnica:** Moscow - 1918

**Fuentes:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B. S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), pages 214-215, poster 708

**En el catologo:** PP 621 Civil War; Sister poster to PP 890

**Región de la URSS:** RSS de Ucrania

**Idioma:** Ucraniano

Artista: Schiemann (Shiman), Eduard Gustavovich — Шиман, Эдуард Густавович

Imprenta: Printer not indicated —

Editorial: VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), Moscow — ВЦИК (Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет), Москва

VTsIK (Vserossiyskii Centralny Ispolnitelny Komitet ) was the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers', Peasants', Red Army and Cossack Deputies. It was the highest legislative and administrative body of government in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 until 1936. Following the reformation of the Soviet Constitution in 1936, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR replaced VTsIK. From a publishing angle, VTsIK disseminated agitational and military literature in addition to official publications. In May 1919, VTsIK ...