Description
Front page of the newspaper Krasnaia zvezda (The Red Star) 20 November, 1934. The montage by A. Lavrov is part of the official propaganda of Stalin's cult that exaggerated the leader's role in the Civil War. The lede of the newspaper reads: "15 years ago (1919) the heroic Red Army under the great strategists of the proletariat revolution Lenin and Stalin inflicted defeat on the counter-revolutionary hordes of Deniken."