PP 1002 | Poster Plakat

Deserter Thinks: “I’ll show them my heels! Even if they find me, I’ll hide away somehow. I’m sick of this war stuff!”
White General: “Stop! Where are you going? Don’t want to fight? March against the reds, you’ll do some fighting for me, I’ll make use of
rogues like you!” — Deserter Thinks: “I’ll show them my heels! Even if they find me, I’ll hide away somehow. I’m sick of this war stuff!” White General: “Stop! Where are you going? Don’t want to fight? March against the reds, you’ll do some fighting for me, I’ll make use of rogues like you!”

**Poster Number:** PP 1002

**Category:** Civil War

**Poster Notes:** The language of the deserter mimics colloquial peasant speech while the White General's words imply that a Red Army deserter will be pressed by the Whites into fighting against the Reds.

**Media Size:** 27x19.5

**Poster Type:** Lithograph

**Publishing Date:** 1919

**Editorial Information:** Printed by the Commissariat of Army Reserves for the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic).

**Sources & Citation:** Soviet Posters of the era of the Civil War 1918-1921 by B.S. Butnik-Siverskii (1960), page 251, poster 1066

**Catalog Notes:** PP 1002 Civil War c

Artist: Deni (Denisov), Viktor Nikolaevich — Дени (Денисов), Виктор Николаевич

Although known for his characterizations and posters that he signed with the pseudonym 'Deni'; Viktor Nikolayevich Denisov never received formal artistic education. Around 1906, Deni began exhibiting at the annual exhibitions of the Society of Independents in Saint Petersburg, as well as at the Salon of Humorists. In 1910, he took private lessons in painting and drawing from the artist-portraitist Nikolai P. Ulianov and that same year, he became active in the field of political caricature, contributing ...

Deserter Thinks: “I’ll show them my heels! Even if they find me, I’ll hide away somehow. I’m sick of this war stuff!” White General: “Stop! Where are you going? Don’t want to fight? March against the reds, you’ll do some fighting for me, I’ll make use of rogues like you!”