Description: A European man’s arm holds up a sword, implicitly likening the Axis to the Crusaders, and behind it are three Baltic flags and two other European ones: the flag of Lithuania, the flag of Latvia, the flag of the Third Reich, a flag of Finland, and the flag of Estonia. In the background is an unarmed Bolshevik skeleton (equating Bolshevism with death) looking at the sword with concern, almost trembling before it.
Did these posters ever work on anyone? Like, someone who was on the fence (but also wasn’t like a peasant farmer who wouldn’t really be exposed to posters I guess) but after seeing a couple of these thought “yeah I’ll volunteer for the SS, what’s the worse that can happen”
If the only thing you know about Bolsheviks is that they are spooky skeletons, you might be convinced.
Frankly, probably.
Yeah, look at your slop right-wing propaganda today.
Given that Nazis failed to organize Lithuanian SS units, no.
I doubt they were effective on anyone who wasn’t already sympathetic to the Nazi cause.
Brandishing a sword of all things against an animate skeleton who has no more flesh to lacerate or blood to bleed is kind of a fitting image for the fascist delusion that overwhelming brutality will crush an oppressed people’s will. The colonized are wishfully depicted as dead, but frustratingly still walk, refusing to stay buried, their will to live after being stripped of so much a haunting mystery to the fascist cowards. Refusing to engage the mystery, they can only project their own fears - they surely sense that if their colonial grab fails, a sword would be fine tool to cut away the slave plantations and egg monopolies on which they’ve gorged.depicting my enemies as skeletons while wearing a silly hat with a totenkopf
The eSStonian and Latvian definitely not nazi posters i totally swear guyz literally plagiarized off one another
Straight up only changed the flags, backdrop of the respective capitals, flags and language
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…
