The Propaganda Archive

A project by Propagandopolis to create the internet’s largest archive of propaganda posters, postcards, pamphlets, stamps and other ephemera.

This archive is currently a work in progress. New content and features will be added over the coming months. If you would like to learn about or support the project, you can do so below:

The rich rule the country freely (Soviet poster, 1971)

Text: The rich rule the country freely / They shoot anyone who interferes / They shoot accurately, they shoot perfectly / This is their absolute freedom.

Year: 1971.

Publisher: Agitplakat

Artist: Boris Georgievich Rezanov.

Additional information: Poster shows an assassin perched on the Statue of Liberty with a gallery of his victims behind, featuring Lincoln, John and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.