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English: Polish government anti-communist poster to counter Bolshevik propaganda from Russia during the Polish- Russian war 1920, showing People's Commissar for the Army Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky). Large caption reads: "Bolshevik freedom.".
Small caption on the right-hand-side reads:

The Bolsheviks promised:
We'll give you peace
We'll give you freedom
We'll give you land
Work and bread
Despicably they cheated
They started a war
With Poland
Instead of freedom they brought
The fist - Instead of land
-confiscation
Instead of work - misery

Instead of bread - famine.
Polski: Wizerunek Trockiego na polskim plakacie propagandowym z lipca 1920.
Tekst u góry: "Wolność bolszewicka".
Po prawej:
"Obiecali bolszewicy"
"Damy wam pokój"
"Damy wam wolność"
"Damy wam ziemię"
"Pracę i chleb"
"Nikczemnie oszukali"'
"Rozpętali wojnę"
"z Polską"
"Zamiast wolności dali"
"Pięść - zamiast ziemi"
"-rekwizycje"
"Zamiast pracy - nędzę"
"Zamiast chleba - głód".
Pod spodem: "M.S. Wojsk. Wydział propagandowy"
Date July 1920
Source self-made Scan from an original public poster printed in Poland and dated 1920
Author unknown,governmental edition ( Ministry of Military Afffairs of Poland)
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Public domain This image is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed public domain in Poland.

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  1. it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days)
  2. it was first published before March 1, 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (January 1, 1996).
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