Europe
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French anti-communist cartoon (1922)
Text: NA. Year: 1922. Publisher: Le Pèlerin. Artist: NA. Additional information: Published in Le Pèlerin, the cartoon depicts Bolsheviks plundering the imperial tomb in St Petersburg’s St Peter and Paul Cathedral, suggesting the looting of the resting place for Russia’s Tsars. The cathedral had served as a resting place for Russia’s Tsars since the eighteenth…
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Italian painting, 1937
Text: NA. Year: 1937. Artist: Basilio Cascella. Additional information: Painting shows Mussolini shirtless while skiing on Monte Terminillo. Basilio Cascella, an Italian artist, along with his son Michele, produced a number of Mussolini-themed public artworks in the 1930s. These included grand mosaics for Milan and Messina train stations, an agricultural series showing Mussolini at work…
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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,…
