# 1274

Apsit (Apsitis) Alexander Petrovich

What do we need Donets Basin for.

Year: 1919
Issue: 40 150
Publisher: Lit. izd. otd. Polit. upr. RVSR
Place of publishing:
Moscow
Description: Coal and iron.
1. When the Donets Basin is ours, we will have coal. Then all our factories will start working.
2. When we have coal, there will be trains and steamboats going around and bringing bread to the starving cities and villages.
3. When the Donets Basin is ours, we will have iron. Then the peasant will have than to repair his plow and sweep the wheel, he will have a sickle, scythe, shovel, ax and agricultural tools.
4. When we have coal and iron, factories and plants will work, we will have bread, fabrics, shoes and all sorts of goods - all that which the White Guards who seized the Donetsk basin are depriving us of.

The Donets Basin should be ours!
To the weapons of the Red Army!
To the arms of the workers and peasants!
Let us crush the gangs of Tsarist General Denikin who, in order to please the kulaks and landowners, wants to starve the revolutionary peasants and workers.

Forward for the Donets Basin!
Reference Price: 1700
Printing Technique: Chromolithography
Language:
Russian
Size: 72 х 69
Notes: Butnik-Siverskiy B.S.
Soviet Posters of the Civil War Era. 1918-1921.
M., 1960. No.2141. Page 357.(138).

Polonsky V.
Russian Revolution Poster.
M, 1925. No. 591. Page 166.(057).
Period: 1917-1921
Categories:
Military-patriotic and revolutionary posters
Civil War
Socialist economics
Military communism
Coal industry
Style:
Lubok

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