Propagandopolis
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Join the Volunteers (Irish poster, ca. 1930)
Text: Join the volunteers. Year: 1930s. Publisher: Irish military. Artist: NA. Additional information: Produced for the for the Volunteer Force, established in 1934 by the then-governing party Fianna Fáil. The force was intended to attract the party’s young Republican supporters and provide military training to any young Irishmen who desired it. It was hoped that…
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Roman Communists! Khrushchev has fallen (Italian poster, 1964)
Text: Roman Communists! Khrushchev has fallen, Stalin is vindicated – Long live the glorious comrade Stalin! Year: 1964. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Poster displayed in Rome, 1964, celebrating Khrushchev’s downfall. The poster is signed ‘I compagni cinesi’, or ‘The Chinese Comrades’. Khrushchev was removed from power during a plot arranged by his successor…
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Under new management (British cartoon, 1947)
Text: Under new management. Sign reads ‘Private Profit’. Year: 1947. Publisher: Daily Worker newspaper (later renamed Morning Star). Artist: NA. Additional information: The cartoon was published the day that the coal mines were formally nationalised under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, passed by Clement Attlee’s Labour government the year before as part of a broader…
