Клином красным бей белых!

English translation: Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!

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Russian term or phrase:Клином красным бей белых!
English translation:Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!
Entered by: TranslatonatoR

04:36 Aug 25, 2009
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
Russian term or phrase: Клином красным бей белых!
Hey guys! Haven't been around here for 5 years. Hopefully everyone from the "old guard" is well and doing great )) Greetings to everyone else as well, and watch those Kudoz points, cuz I'll be a regular from now on! )))) j/k

Anyways, translating some old Soviet propaganda poster slogans here. Anyone has any bright ideas for this one? Its from the 1920's. Here is the link to the graphic.
http://www.davno.ru/posters/1920/poster-1920q.html

Thanks!
TranslatonatoR
Local time: 06:13
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!
Explanation:
http://images.google.ru/images?hl=ru&lr=&um=1&newwindow=1&sa...

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Note added at 50 mins (2009-08-25 05:27:33 GMT)
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Sorry, the link is beaten {broken}

Try this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red_We...
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Konstantin Volkov
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:13
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4 +1Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!
Konstantin Volkov


  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!


Explanation:
http://images.google.ru/images?hl=ru&lr=&um=1&newwindow=1&sa...

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Note added at 50 mins (2009-08-25 05:27:33 GMT)
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Sorry, the link is beaten {broken}

Try this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_the_Whites_with_the_Red_We...

Konstantin Volkov
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:13
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
Thanks
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks! I'd rate now, but gotta wait for 24hours. Should've been able to look that up myself...arrrghh!


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