After hand painting the White Flags, my Red Flags didn't match. I wasn't happy with them anyway, so I redid them. Now someone will tell me I've spelt the slogans wrong.
The slogans say: "Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь", "Workers of the world unite"; "Победа или смерть", “Victory or death”; "За власть Советов", “For the power of the Soviets”. The
first is a Russian translation of a famous line from the
Communist Manifesto and was later the motto of the Soviet Union. The second and third were among the banners carried by the 1st Reserve Communist Regiment of Kiev in June 1919. See this great thread on the
Studio Siberia forum for a lots of information on banners and flags of the civil war era Red Army.
And a work in progress shot.
Here is a link to the
Studio Siberia Forum thread translated using
Google Translate.
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