Tongshu calendar: Can posters be used as bullets?

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This illustration is from the "Red Army Alphabet Series Works" published in 1921. The author is the creator of the former Soviet Union's most outstanding revolutionary propaganda painting Dmitry Moore.His political publicity poster "Have you joined the army?" Become one of the most iconic civil war posters after the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Soviet propaganda paintings first appeared during the Russian proletarian revolution. They conveyed the slogan of the Communist Party to the general public and called on workers and farmers to fight for freedom and justice.

Propaganda paintings played a very important role in the October Revolution and subsequent civil war.In those years, few newspapers were published, so publicity painting played a role in replacing newspapers.Propaganda art has the characteristics of popularization. The images it depicts can be easily understood by everyone. The short -term and powerful slogan accompanied by it has played a continuous appeal to the action.During the civil war, propaganda was sent to the front line, which had the same effect as bullets and shells.

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