Remarkable disconnect between Western leftist elites and the socialist world

Symbols of communism: the hand wielding the hammer and sickle, in the background the rising sun and the red star ***Long live the fifth anniversary of the Great Proletarian Revolution!***.

Color lithograph.

Digital optimization from detail of a Ivan Simakov 1922 poster.

Italy, Milan 2016.

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