If you do not want a return to the past, rifle in hand! To the Polish front!
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False dilemma The headline "If you do not want a return to the past, rifle in hand!" Two choices: the Polish front or the old regime. Peace, exhaustion, and simply going home are not on the sheet.
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Oversimplification The tavern The past is a tavern with a lamp and two black figures staggering. Everything before 1917 becomes drink and the police.
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Appeal to fear The prison On the other side of the worker, the prison gate and the striped sentry box. What waits if the Poles win is already drawn.
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Color and typography The red worker A worker in pure red silhouette, arms out, keeping the past and the prison apart. Red is the only color on the sheet that is not a threat.
A ROSTA window of 1920 by Ivan Malyutin. The "windows" were hand-stenciled posters, often in several panels like a comic strip, pasted in the empty shop windows of Moscow and other cities and replaced every few days with the news. Mayakovsky wrote most of the verses; Malyutin and Cheremnykh drew most of the pictures. This one, from the Polish war, offers a choice between the past (the landlord with his whip) and the rifle.
- The poster offers two futures. Are there only two?
- The ROSTA windows were replaced every few days. What does speed do to propaganda?
- Why draw in flat stenciled shapes rather than realistic figures?
See also
Same era, or the same techniques.
