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Fan Wennan: You and I Are Both Stars

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/AlNm8y New art series by Fan Wennan named Base Area. Additional background for the series is below: ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/712803da-cc60-4be4-8d86-bc66b5fd143c.jpeg) ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/80094c08-259d-4db2-84b4-f0e30462355a.jpeg)

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Happy Victory Day!

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Siege of Sevastopol, 1942

By Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka

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The End, 1948

Last Hours at Hitler's Headquarters

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Soviet anti-revisionist poster, 1983

Marx has become even stronger in our century — a triumph of great ideas is clearer! The pitiful pygmies are now insignificant before his omnipotent wisdom. *From left to right* "Marxism is outdated!" "We deny!" "We refute!" "We're correcting!" "We prohibit!"

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Flag of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (ROK)

"The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (Est 1969) is a banned group advocating for anti-imperialism, national sovereignty from American occupation, Juche, and reunification with the DPRK, aiming to challenge external influence and pursue a more independent political and economic trajectory for the country." Another variant\ ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/c6335a40-3e16-4fcd-8b3c-6f9db73f3ef9.webp) Taken from the [website](http://aindft.com/English/index.htm)![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0dd324f9-b234-4dce-9dd7-70c689426523.gif)

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Soviet anti-capitalist poster, 1965

The moral of capitalism: man is man's enemy!

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Plunderphonics is very aesthetically orientated so I thought I'd share this here. youtu.be

If anyone likes this genre of music, I highly recommend checking out "modest by default" either at [Bandcamp](https://modestbydefault.bandcamp.com/music) or on YouTube, either through a search or on the [channel](https://youtube.com/@rabbitholeclub) the video linked is posted to. **With compilations such as:** *"The Ancom Arsenal"*, *"The Curse of Colonialism"* and *"Anti-Imperialist Tapes"* **And tracks such as:** *"FUCKNATO"* and *"Policeman Circus"*

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¨It Has Come to Pass¨ - Sergei Ivanovich Lukin

Also known as "Inevitable" and "Bolshevik Stands Guard Inside the Winter Palace", it shows the tsar's throne-room, in the center of which is a soldier with a lowered gun, in the background is the throne, no longer a symbol or the tsar's regalia, but simply an empty chair.... The painting now hangs in the hall of the Lenin Museum.

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Immortal name of Stalin the banner of humanity in the fight for peace, democracy and socialism

Polish poster, no idea what year it's from but judging from the abscense of the Yugoslav flag and the presence of the Korean flag I'm assuming it's from after 1948 and before 1956, because you know. The 3 blue and 2 red flags with no markings confuse me - the red flags can be excused for symbolising socialism, but I don't know what the blue flags symbolise. PS. Am I supposed to tag the post with the language of the poster or the contents I write in here?

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Largest residential complex in Asia: Huaguoyuan district in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China www.youtube.com

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"Liberate Palestine" by Peace, Land, and Bread

[Link for better resolution.](https://twitter.com/plbmagazine/status/1712662074957111307) What is the image size limit by the way?

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Soviet anti-Zionist poster, 1978

On Palestinian land occupied by Israel, fighters against aggression are arrested and imprisoned for the sacred right of their people to have their own independent state.

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Felis Sovieticus

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Cross the old night - Fan Wennan

Description: >Cross the old night 跨过旧夜 This generation just built a bridge for future strangers to use. You may see him one day... source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EvX2xe

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The Four Cardinal Principles of the PRC

1. Unswervingly uphold the Socialist Road 2. Unswervingly uphold the Dictatorship of the Proletariat 3. Unswervingly uphold the leadership of the Communist Party 4. Unswervingly uphold Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought

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Soviet anti-Mujahideen poster, circa 1980s

Let's destroy the counter-revolutionary underground!

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Soviet atheist poster, 1964

The sky was examined both inside and out. no gods or angels were found. Quote from 1925 poem "Flying proletarian" by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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"Rear-Front" memorial in Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk was the most important steel production center in USSR during the WW2 and one of the biggest in the world. Monument shows worker presenting the freshly made sword to the warrior. Which is the same sword being also depicted on two other famous monuments: The Motherland Calls in Stalingrad, where she rises it into the air in the defence of the country (though the sword looks different because of different architect), and the War Memorial in Berlin, where the victorious warrior lowers the sword to the ground.

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“The Future Worker of Communism” by Josep Renau Berenguer, DDR, 1969

Josep Renau Berenguer (17 May 1907 — 11 November 1982) was an artist and communist revolutionary, notable for his propaganda work during the Spanish Civil War.

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piece by piece

I don’t know if this is hollow, corny cheerleading, but I think it’s important to remind myself and others. Sometimes a shitty future seems inevitable; it’s easy to imagine capitalism and oppression consuming more and more of our planet and our humanity. The momentum of these forces is so great that they can seem unsurmountable, but we must always remember the truth: there is no power greater than the people. from: fuckcapitalism2020

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They're one

“It reminds us of John Dewey's claim that, "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a "corporate-fascistic state of being." — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/calibrating-the-capitalist-state-in-the-neoliberal-era-equilibrium-superstructure-and-the-pull-towards-a-corporate-fascistic-model from fuckcapitalism2020

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Marina Ginestà, 17-years-old communist during the Spanish Civil War in 1936

**Original:** ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/236e04f2-1d61-451f-8ce0-4fab5f9ce91b.jpeg) **Remastered:** ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/a2e87b58-3705-4d73-bc4a-e5c8700f4dbe.jpeg) **Biography:** Ginestà was born in Toulouse to, on 29 January 1919, into a working-class leftist family that had emigrated to France from Spain. Her parents were both tailors: Empar Coloma Chalmeta, from Valencia, and Bruno Ginestà Manubens, from Manresa. She moved to Barcelona with her parents at the age of 11. Ginestà later joined the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. As the war broke out in 1936, she served as a reporter and a translator assisting Mikhail Koltsov, a correspondent of the Soviet newspaper Pravda.[2] Before the end of the war, Ginestà was wounded and evacuated to Montpellier. As France was occupied by the Nazis, she fled to the Dominican Republic where she married a former Republican officer. In 1946, she was forced to leave the country because of the persecution by the dictator Rafael Trujillo and relocate to Venezuela. In 1949, she divorced her husband and moved to France. In 1952, Ginestà married a Belgian diplomat and returned to Barcelona. She moved to Paris in 1978. Marina Ginestà died there at the age of 94 in January 2014. **Source:** [Wikipedia - Marina Ginestà](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ginest%C3%A0)

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