Thursday 21 May 2020

Red Cavalry Banner

I've made an attempt to get a bit more adventerous with my Red Banner this time and model it on a more famboyant example.


This one is based on the banner of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of Turkestan.  The image comes from here via the Studio Siberia forum.


On the left the slogan reads "Long live the 3rd International" and on the right it reads "Long live the world revolution."

I couldn't fit all that writing in a readable size on such a small flag, so I took the central image and added Туркестанская кавалерия (Turkestan Cavalry) on the front.  Then used the slogan
Да здравствует мировая революция (Long live the world revolution) for the back.  The 3rd International or Communist International (Comintern) was only founded at a Congress held in Moscow on 2–6 March 1919, so Red Army units would have been unlikely to have had a slogan relating to that on that their banners in early 1919.

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