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Red Fists
Halfsheet Chinese propaganda poster from the Cultural Revolution era.
The poster, titled "Defeat Soviet Revisionism!," was published in 1967 and depicts a crowd of fists attacking two men.
The text on the poster translates to: (D?d?o S?xi?!)" which means "Defeat Soviet Revisionism!" The second line says: (Zálàn Bólièrìnièf? de g?utóu, zálàn K?x?j?n de g?utóu!)" which translates to "Smash Brezhnev's dog's head! Smash Kosygin's dog's head!".
The two men being attacked are Leonid Brezhnev, who was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, who was the Premier of the Soviet Union at the time. The use of "dog's head" was a derogatory term used by Red Guards to describe counter-revolutionaries.
The poster reflects the intense ideological and political conflict between China and the Soviet Union, known as the Sino-Soviet split, which began in the early 1960s. The Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong accused the Soviet Union of "revisionism," or deviating from true Marxist-Leninist ideology
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