Single sheet measuring 12 ¾" x 19", front only. Published by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Councils of Workers', Peasants', Red Army, and Cossack Deputies, Moscow. Circulation unknown. Printed on newsprint-quality paper.

In good condition. The paper shows some wear to the edges: moderate to the right-side edge, mild to the other edges. Three of the four corners are missing their tips. The paper is rather frail and a little brittle. Careful mounting of the poster onto a backing and/or framing it will reinforce it and improve its presentation, if desired.

Single sheet measuring 12 ¾" x 19", front only. Published by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Councils of Workers', Peasants', Red Army, and Cossack Deputies, Moscow. Circulation unknown. Printed on newsprint-quality paper.

In good condition. The paper shows some wear to the edges: moderate to the right-side edge, mild to the other edges. Three of the four corners are missing their tips. The paper is rather frail and a little brittle. Careful mounting of the poster onto a backing and/or framing it will reinforce it and improve its presentation, if desired.

This innocent-looking poster is a precursor of the young Soviet government's prodrazvyorstka campaign of "redistribution" of the bread crops to feed the poor among the peasantry and the working population in the cities. The text starts with seemingly logical statements: the bread crops are ripe, they can be harvested by the well-to-do peasants the Bolsheviks called kulaks ("fists", because they keep their property firmly in their fists and would not "share"); by mid-level peasants who may or may not have enough, and by poor peasants who certainly will NOT have enough. The following conclusion is a true pearl of communist thinking: "The rich will certainly have extras; which MUST GET INTO THE HANDS OF THE POOR.

The rest of the poster agitates urban workers to "help the peasants," that is, to organize "harvesting detachments" and relieve the kulaks of their extra harvest. Not to rob them of everything, of course! Leave just enough to last until the next crop. And don't forget the starving workers in Russia's cities!

As bad as it reads on paper, it was so much worse in reality! The "harvesting detachments" of workers and CheKa knew no limits in their zeal. Artificial famine known as Holodomor, insanity of starvation that led to cannibalism and other unimaginable atrocities perpetrated by the same peasants whom those "harvesting detachments" helped.

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