Cross and Tractor Anti Religion Cheremnykh USSROriginal vintage anti religious communist propaganda poster entitled Cross and Tractor featuring a cartoon style design by Mikhail Cheremnykh (1890 1962) based on a poem by Demyan Bedny (1883 1945) about peasant exploitation by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia and their brighter prospects under Soviet rule depicting a farmer with a cross tied to his back as he ploughs a field with a horse below an image of people having tea at a table from a