It’s not like the Finnish white regime invented the concept of using liquor bottles as thrown improvised weapons. Both sides of the Spanish civil war a few years prior (including Republic-aligned communists and anarchists) used them in abundance. But because the Finns mass produced them and the Western public (namely Britain) was sympathetic to the Finnish “war against tyranny”, “Molotov cocktails” stuck.
Since then however, Molotov cocktails have become symbolic of under-equipped guerrilla forces and protest movements across the political spectrum, but mainly among left wingers and socialists. Even anticommunists would sooner associate them with anarchists than based Finland.
I guess the poster can replace the Molotov with an AK but that kind of undermines the “call to arms” message of it.
The guillotine was made famous during a liberal bourgeois revolution, doesn’t mean it isn’t really good at chopping the heads off the ruling class!
There’s a reason why you see some liberals try to denigrate the legacy of the French Revolution in favor of the comparatively conservative (arguably reactionary) American Revolution. As it turns out, revolutionary violence against a parasitic ruling class is a transferable concept.
In Poland French Revolution is only slightly less smeared in mainstream than October one.
Which is quite ironic given how Polish nationalism and later independence movements came to be.
It also was used by various reactionary governments up until the 1970s. In fact the Paris commune symbolically burnt the guillotine as it was a symbol of oppression.
Still doesn’t takeaway it’s message now though.