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Anti-Communist propaganda

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 14 November 2013 by delclem

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“Horror movies and Weird Tales magazine have given us some beautiful, spooky and unnerving works of art. But if you really want a dose of scary brilliance? Check out the posters that warned people of the evils of Communism. These are scarier, and more beautiful, than pretty much any horror art you’ve seen.”
>photo album (c) l09.com 2013

Nazi propaganda posters in Serbia during WW2

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 26 November 2011 by delclem

“One of the issues the Nazi authorities faced with the local population during four years in occupied Belgrade (1941-1945) was how to fight the ideological influence of both the Soviet Marxist-Leninism and Anglo-American liberal democracy.

Among various other propaganda techniques, a well established means of mass political advertising were posters. Although the Nazis never reached the avant-garde coolness of Soviet design, it is certainly interesting to see how the German propaganda machinery worked (…).”

Reblogged from (c) Bturn, 2011. More posters > LINK