People tend to say that there's not enough post-WWII propaganda in this thread. So, here's a PSA-style poster I made for the second half of the 20th century of
my Sparrow Avengers universe.
"The worst thing is to suffer silently, tacitly, in fear. Do not allow extremists to rid you of your individual, civic and humane values. Report (them), defeat (them) !
Report the above listed symbols and insignia at your nearest police department. Extremism and terrorism can be defeated only by courage and openness.
(C) 1971 Visegrád Security Alliance, Slovak Institute for the Combating of Organised Crime"
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Despite the post-WWII history of central Europe in my Sparrow Avengers universe not being as bad as OTL, it's no walk in the park either. The symbols displayed on the poster in an appropriately menacing, ominous red, represent (clockwise, from the top left)
falangism,
integralism, radical regionalism,
fascism and
communism.
While the others are pretty straight-forward, radical regionalism obviously needs a bit of explanation : Since regionalism as a political philosophy and movement was one of the main moving forces behind the timeline, and greatly influenced the ATL pre-WWI central Europe and the ATL interwar period as a whole, its success was bound to bring forth some negatives as well. In this particular case, when the central European successor states started to reunite after WWII, certain old-fashioned or neophyte regionalist stalwarts greatly disliked the idea. These hardcore regionalist groups, advocating fervently against the very concept of unitarian nation states, were fairly quickly pushed out of mainstream political discourse during the 1950s. While most of these dissenters gave it a rest, several soldiered on by founding new political parties and gradually radicalising over time. By the end of the 1950s, certain extremist branches of the 'Rad-Regs' - a nickname they earned in popular colloquial parlance - took their 'glorious neo-regionalist struggle' even further. What started as loud and violent demonstrations became an armed terrorist campaign, backed by similar criminal groups, sympathisers and foreign regimes abroad. The countries of the Visegrad Union, despite their post-WWII successes and growth, entered a new era of fear and paranoia, as decentralised Rad-Reg terrorist cells repeatedly attempted to disrupt the political and social order as much as possible, and return the central European countries to the interwar status quo (or take the regionalist balkanisation ideals
even further)...
To get an idea of what these locos-in-the-cocos are like, imagine a blend of Northern Irish and Cold War era FRG terrorist movements. Despite the main focus of my TL being the interwar years, one of the next posters from my timeline will come from the same period of the 20th century as this one. And it will feature the other side's opinions, so get ready for some kooky rhetoric of trigger-happy, balaclava-wearing Rad-Reg 'dissenters'.
