Favorite Over The Top Propaganda in History

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Entirely unrelated to the thread at hand but does anyone else think the guy playing Rommel here has a resemblance to Bruce Willis?
 
A couple of Soviet posters.

The Winter War:

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"Mannerheim the Butcher.

1910: The hired hand of Russia's Emperor Nicholas the Bloody.

1918: The murderer of tens of thousands of workers, the butcher of the Finnish people.

1939: The gold Mannerheim gets for the blood of the Finnish workers and farmers.

1940: The lackey of British fat cat bankers, the provocateur of an anti-Soviet war."


The Continuation War:

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"When there is not enough cannon fodder in Germany, then, sir, drink some blood of Finland's men!"
 
Some US anti-communist propaganda -

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Thanks Paul, I hadn't seen these before and found it interesting. These are some great examples of striking / extreme propaganda. :)

What follows below a rant about how I feel about the actual images themselves and the message they are designed to convey.

Awful! This stuff is truly appalling. No wonder American politics has drifted so far to the right that people have virtually no right to paid holiday, no healthcare, and have to pay insane amounts for education. It all gets shouted down as socialism and everyone bar the 1% suffers for it. This kind of horrible scaremongering propaganda is completely ridiculous. The sheer damage caused by this kind of fanatical propaganda is incalculable. No wonder the Cold War resulted in so much death and misery. It sickens me.

Here's some North Korean propaganda posters depicting the US in a fairly similar exaggerated way:

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I believe propaganda is almost always bad. It tries to make people look as monsters. When the truth isn't that simple at all. Human beings from all nations and backgrounds are capable of both great good and great evil. It's inherent in the human genome. By trying to make things black and white, good versus bad, out of a complex reality that is usually much less clear cut, propaganda does great harm in the world.
 
There's plenty of this on r/PropagandaPosters.

Anyway, may I submit the following, from the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission and the Joint Committee on Segregation? The part where they compare desegregation to the "arbitrary rule of the government of Hitler and Khrushchev", the part where they call "the new Carpet Baggers" the modern Freedom Riders or the part where they accuse "Communists" with stirring racial hatred after the one where they decry "race-mixing" (was LEander Perez communist?) are pretty terrible.
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And Hitler never chips in to fill the tank.
He also never backseat drives, yammers on about anything, messes with the radio, or tries to roll the window down and then complain when you lock it.

Also no bo.

Pretty good passenger by comparison.
 

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Probably not current politics anymore since it's over 20 years old, but this National Front TV spot for the 1999 europeans elections is one of my favorite, especially with the cheap CGI.


In a totaly different context, an other one of my personnal favorite.
 
In a technical sense, the greatest, most over-the-top piece of propaganda is Leni Riefenstal's 'Triumph of the Will'
 
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