Comrade Lenin Cleans the Earth From Scum
Deni's most famous cartoon, 'Comrade Lenin Cleans the Earth from Scum' (November 1920) was in fact based on an older newspaper cartoon by Mikhail Cheremnykh.
The drawing depicts a giant Lenin on top of a globe, sweeping away a tiny king, emperor, priest and capitalist. The poster became one of the defining images of the era and was reproduced countless times. Not just in Soviet propaganda, but in international history books too.
In the late 1980s Belgian cartoonist Gal satirized it by depicting the same cartoon of Lenin and his globe, but now swept away by president Gorbachev and his social-political reforms.
