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Soviet propaganda poster, 1943. Soviet propaganda, during the country's victory at Stalingrad, had the notion of the hearth and family become a focus fir rhetoric for nationalist and patriotic themes. [34] The language of the propaganda often “dress[ed]” itself in private values and to sound like private speech. [35] (Kirschenbaum, Lisa A ...
The main distinction between United States poster propaganda and that of British and other allied propaganda was that the U.S. posters stayed mostly positive in their messages. [16] The United States posters focused on duty, patriotism and tradition, whereas those of other countries focused on fueling the people's hatred for the enemy. [ 16 ]
The Slabinja Monument to the fallen fighters and victims of WWII fascism from Slabinja, Croatia, seems to be directly inspired by this poster. [7]English doom metal band Witchfinder General employ the red wedge motif in the artwork accompanying their 1982 EP Soviet Invasion, and The Wake used the artwork for their twelve-inch single "Something Outside" in 1983. [8]
The term originated in the Soviet Union as a shortened name for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda (отдел агитации и пропаганды, otdel agitatsii i propagandy), which was part of the central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. [6]
A collection of posters on various themes. Britain re-created the World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards support for the war effort. A wide range of media was employed aimed at local and overseas audiences.
An American propaganda poster from World War II produced under the Works Progress Administration. In the United States, propaganda is spread by both government and non-government entities. Throughout its history, to the present day, the United States government has issued various forms of propaganda to both domestic and international audiences.
A 1917 Russian poster saying "Comrades democrats, Ivan and Uncle Sam". In 1912, future leader of Soviet Russia Vladimir Lenin described the American two-party system (that is, the Republican and Democratic Parties) as "meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties". [3]
By the 1960s, poster makers were beginning to be influenced by aesthetics and film posters from North America and Western Europe. [13] Posters used the language spoken in the region they were to be used in, and thus propaganda posters using the Arabic and Latin scripts exist, in addition to Cyrillic.