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Wouldnt say that, their anticommunist propaganda is also kind of anti-semitic
...im sorry, what is antisemetic about this picture? to me it seems to just denigrate trotsky (the blood demon/monster/ogre thing looks like trotsky)
the flag still says RSFSR, so im also confused how this would be anticommunist as well (unless being anti-trotsky = anti-communist?)
It is playing on stereotypes of Jews as blood-sucking vampires and parasites, drinking the blood of Christian children, as notoriously claimed in the 'Elders of Zion'. It is presenting him as a demon, linking this with his Bolshevism and Jewishness. It is accentuating stereotypes about Jewish physical appearance while doing so. It is also playing on the proto-fascist fear at the time of the Judeo-Bolsheviks leading the 'asiatic/mongol hordes' of 'barbarians' to bring down 'civilized' Europe.