Luciano Ramo: Attention, we have caught the German snake! Now we must extract its venom fang, Brescia, F.lli Geroldi 1916
Gaetano Scarpignato: Expose the internal enemies! 1915-1918
Otto von Kursell: Down with Bolshevism! Bolshevism brings war and destruction, famine and death, 1919
Giuseppe Miozzi: The weapons of the Royal Carabinieri against the bandits, 1860-70, Florence, Aldo Funghi, 1933
The death of lies, 1932-33 approx. Caption: Marxism, Big Capital
Sergei Igumnov: Exterminate the spies and saboteurs, the Trotskyist-Bukharinist agents of Fascism, 1937.
(The confused caption reflects the disorder of official ideology. The snake wears a Nazi monocle, but the Germans were at the time potential, then actual Soviet allies. Hence, the need to refer to other enemies in the caption: Trotskyists and Bukharinists, as well as Fascists, whose name eventually transferred to the National Socialists.)
Jean Carlu (1900-1997): World Day of Peace, August 2, 1936.
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, set designer for Bertolt Brecht): Demand the ban of nuclear weapons, 1955
Victory of Venezuela over [American] imperialism, contemporary mural
We will overcome drunkenness! Anti-alcohol Soviet poster, 1960s
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