Friday, January 28, 2011

Soviet Propaganda Posters from 1917-1922.



(click posters) Winning the hearts and minds. Translations: top left—Peace and freedom for the Sovietdom (Who is the giant red naked man? update: it's Trotsky, and update: it's an anti-communist poster—see comments.); top right—Tsar, Pope and the Rich; bottom left—Parasites and slackers do nothing and prevent others from working; bottom right—Red plowman. See many more of the posters here.
Previously: Wonderfully violent Soviet work safety posters.

7 Comments:

Blogger Charlie Putz said...

The red giant is Trosky. Do i win something?

8:44 AM  
Blogger copyranter said...

A red badge (make your own).

8:52 AM  
Blogger WujiMedia said...

The top right actually says: Tsar, Pope and the Rich.

Cool posters, though!

9:40 AM  
Blogger copyranter said...

Thanks.

9:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The great giant is Leon Trotsky. But this is NOT a soviet poster, it is an anti-communist, anti-semitic poster demonizing Trotsky, who was a "Russified" Jew. I urge you to correct your description.

Faithful reader,

Adam
San Francisco

11:14 AM  
Anonymous -1-track-mind- said...

Can either Adam, the faithful reader from San Francisco or Monsieur Putz tell me why the giant red apelike naked man, aka: Trotsky, the "Russified" Jew was drawn wearing a 5 points star instead of the Hexagram 6 points Star of David???

RSVP

11:50 AM  
Anonymous hapre said...

read more about the Trotsky poster here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteArmyPropagandaPosterOfTrotsky.jpg

2:42 PM  

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