What’s a propaganda poster from your country that goes hard?

by Tiespecialo

46 comments

  14. Id say this.

    https://preview.redd.it/soe6jdzvct9e1.png?width=1811&format=png&auto=webp&s=56f1a3f102569a62d2c965201dc612130dd9ada7

    The bringing home of the body of Charles XII after he had been killed in Norway marks the end point of what is referred to as “Stormaktstiden”, translated into something like “the Period of Greatness”.

    I think it is so important to understand how it is a part of all national propaganda in Sweden, from the text in our anthem to how history is taught in school to the political narrative in the country to sort of accept that there is a period behind us, that was our greatest era, but that we deep down is supposed to be a great power, like this in the national anthem:
    “You rest on memories of days of yore,
    When your honored name soared across the earth;
    I know that you are and will remain what you were,”

    I think it creates the ideal to always strive to be best, expressed for instance in the idea of Sweden being “a humanitarian superpower” (in Swedish stormakt, the same word used to describe this lost era), and why persons like Greta Thunberg or “unique responsibility towards refugees” have such a strong bearing. But also things like new technology or pop music that hits globally. People want to find something that makes Sweden important on the global scene.

  28. https://preview.redd.it/wrnoukfsjt9e1.jpeg?width=1405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62199b09a99dd2983054d3ca4f92b1a25b10dbc5

    Not a poster per se but painting by a Finnish artist Edvard Isto, Hyökkäys (Attack/Aggression). Prints of this painting were spred throughout Finland in the change of 19th and 20th centuries and the painting itself was moved into Sweden for safety, because the Imperial Russia didn’t really like it. In the painting the double-headed eagle of Russia attempts to take away the book of law from the hands of Finnish Maiden.

    Essentially the painting was used to oppose the Russification of Finland in the change of 19th and 20th centuries.

  43. funny thing the Greeks did not claim Rhodes but ended up getting it in the end. Its arguably the most beautiful aegean island.

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