by John Kula
The fist of the Revolution will crush the fist of the countryside. A Bolshevik poster circa 1920 proselytizing against the despised Kulaks. Kulak = fist = profiteering peasant; middleman; someone who makes profit from the work of others without adding any value themselves. Kula has nothing to do with Kulak, I might add.
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