I gotta have one of these. A hand-knotted Trotsky carpet blows a Che poster out of the water.
Very cool, in a bourgeois sort of way or a, uh, proletarian sort of way, depending on the price.
Actually depicts Kalinin, not Trotsky
Kalinin
Trotsky
http://www.library.yale.edu/slavic/leaders.html
Stalin, Lenin, Kalinin - 1919
I may have heard on AM talk radio today that there is a line item in the stimulus bill to have some union workers make all of us these in time for the November Elections.
Unquestionably, even more obscure and desirable. Stump your friends as they come in the front door!
No one passes this hall by me, unless he identifies this Russkee…
(I’m sorry…was that non-pc?)
Totally correct, but bad spelling. Ruski means Russian.
On Lenin’s Tomb, 1927
(Left to Right) Rykov, Bukharin, Kalinin, Uglanov, Stalin, Tomsky.
(Back Row) Murphy and son, Gordon.
Point taken, thank you, and let me admit to a general ignorance when it comes to the Soviet pantheon of Communist stars.
However, in principle I can agree with s1m0n, in that such an image could blow Che away.
The ideology wars, after all, apparently were much more competitive in the former Soviet Union, than they were in Che’s part of the world.
Yes, sad. It was a failed attempt to simulate meter appropriate to the rhyme.
So - You’re finally over the stage, where the FBI put You in jail for having one of these? Now, there REALLY seems to be a change! 
That’s interesting. The site this pic came from had it labelled Trotsky, and claims to have sourced it from the Soviet Museum.
But here’s Fidel:
Yes, but Trotsky never made it into Soviet propaganda. Stalin did see to it.
Obviously a stupid mistake on that website.
The whole caption is stupid and wrong:
This guy is Trotsky, he was also in the Revolution but after he quarelled with Stalin and ran to London where he was killed by KGB agent with a hammer.
Trotsky was assassinated 1940 in Mexico, attacked by an NKVD agent, wounded with the pick of an ice axe, and died a day later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination
PS: Trotsky sported a white goaty beard later in life, and can be easier mistaken for Kalinin
The facts as previously mentioned in this thread aside, and thank you, hans, I’d still agree that the above image blows Che away.
Good spotting, s1m0n!
Matter of opinion in my case I guess, but…
I think it’d be far cooler without the text; just the picture.
Obscure? Kalinin? GRANDPA? More obscure than Trotsky? Gevalt! Where do you people live, anyway? Next you’ll be telling me you never heard of the Great Patriotic War.
To the average Jehovah’s Witness or Miracle Soap salesperson at the American doorstep? Yes indeed.
To the Chiff-at-large? Odds of identification increase substantially.
Personally? I probably would have guessed Trotsky.
American doorstep? Oh well, that explains it. 
Is that the War of Soviet-Axis Aggression? BTW are these prayer rugs?
Yes. The only doorstep about which I can speak authoritatively.
I cannot vouch for the knowledgeability of Jehovah’s Witnesses and soap peddlers elsewhere.
If he had on Che’s little beret, I think it would do more for me…I love Che’s beret