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Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge ("Клином красным бей белых!" "Klinom krasnym bey belykh!") is a 1919 lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky, "the man through whose exertions the new Russian ideas became generally understood in Western Europe". In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the White movement, during the Russian Civil War. It is
of topics often related broadly, but not exclusively to street art and graffiti. Issues have included:
- "Pound the Pavement #20: Total Control?", (2018)
- "Pound the Pavement #18: God Bless Graffiti Coalition", with Daniel Tucker (2018)
- "Pound the Pavement #17: Red Wedge and Black Wedge beat the Whites," [risograph printed zine] (2017)
- "Pound the Pavement #16: An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels,