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Big-character posters (Chinese: 大字报; lit. 'big-character reports') are handwritten posters displaying large Chinese characters, usually mounted on walls in public spaces such as universities, factories, government departments, and sometimes directly on the streets. They were used as a means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication.
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. [ 15 ] [ 18 ] Arabic script in posters had begun to be phased out by the 1930s, as the Soviet government promoted Latin-based scripts for speakers of languages such as Azerbaijani ...
The Museum of International Propaganda features a permanent collection of propaganda posters, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts from more than 25 countries. The main gallery showcases unique and educational images, representing the political art of various nations, including North Korea, Cuba, Nazi Germany, China, Iran, and the Soviet Union. [1]
The Office of War Information (OWI) Bureau of Graphics was the government agency in charge of producing and distributing propaganda posters. [16] 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 posters were 100 centimeters high and 212 centimeters wide. [115] The visual style of the posters was bold text and Nazi-influenced colors; it was meant to capture the attention of the German passersby. The text was big so that several people could read it at the same time and from a distance of a few feet. [115]
File:Palestine Communist Party (P.K.P) propaganda in support of Red Army 1940s.jpg File:Partido Comunista de España (1930s poster).jpg File:Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España (sticker, 1999).jpg
Nazi propaganda, a suicide note and “extremely graphic” clips of mass killings were among a trove of more than 3,000 images and 200 videos recovered by the FBI from a cellphone belonging to ...
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 ...