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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk (Blagoveshchensk).jpg

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Original - As the Russian Revolution raged, various countries tried to stop it, supporting the White Army over the Red Army. Japan was one of these. It was ultimately a failure, but the campaign had its successes - the capture of Blagoveshchensk being one of these.
Reason
A fine illustration of a largely forgotten aspect of the Russian Revolution: The attempt to stop it. I also like seeing Japanese work of this period - this is probably the period where their art is most affected by Western styles, and it just looks neat. I like the way the slightly off-kilter angles serve to give a dynamism to the image, and how it rather luxuriates in its bright colours.
Articles in which this image appears
Siberian Intervention, Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War, Blagoveshchensk, Gongota Agreement of 1920. An older, low-res version had been in all these articles for quite some time, which this new one replaces.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War
Creator
Tokyo : Shobido & Co.

Promoted File:The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.jpg --I'ḏOne 03:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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