Nothing especially special about this post other than it has something to do with PROPAGANDA. No, I'm not going to delve deep into the very definition of "propaganda"; I just thought it'd be interesting to post some of the propaganda posters in the 20th Century.
By the way, here's the Wikipedia definition of "propaganda": Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is 'to propagate (actively spread) a philosophy or point of view'. The most common use of the term (historically) is in political contexts; in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments or political groups.
Also, I kind of like the anti-Nazi poster about Joseph Goebbels. As a perfect specimen of the Aryan race, Joseph Goebbels stood at a towering five feet tall with a congenital defect that gave him a limp. To those who don't know who Goebbels is, he's the Nazi Germany master propagandist, appointed by Hitler to be the Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. The title of this post is a quote attributed to Goebbels, as a clear testament of his contempt for an enlightened masses.
Finally, let history be set that it was V.I. Lenin who made long-flowing trench coat en vogue, long before Neo of The Matrix made it tres cool, or the Columbine school shooters, for that matter. Who would have thought Lenin was the original "The One"? Well, obviously the millions of people who used to live behind the Iron Curtain. By the way, the Cyrillic words on the poster say, "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, and Lenin will live." At least in Russia, with Lenin's statues seem to be the most popular form of outdoor art--and his enbalmed body in the mausoleum--it's as if Uncle Vladimir have never left.
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