Auction 005 Original Vintage Posters - September Sale
By AntikBar Auctions
Sep 21, 2024
404 King’s Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0LJ
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Propaganda Poster Bolshevik Labour Camp Italy Elections

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Propaganda Poster Bolshevik Labour Camp Italy Elections
Original vintage Italian elections propaganda poster issued by the Christian Democratic political party featuring an illustration of a guard with a gun over his shoulder observing male and female workers with pickaxes, carrying boulders, and pushing carts. The writing on the wall reads Dittature Rossa / Red Dictatorship, the caption below the image reads - At the UN session on February 15, delegate Mayhew denounced the existence of forced labour camps in the USSR. In the camps favourers and ethnic groups from the countries occupied by the Red Army are locked up. The existence of forced labour was admitted by Molotov at the Sixth Congress of the Russian Bolshevik Party. - the text below titled L'inganno Bolsevico / The Bolshevik deception, elaborates on the Bolshevik leaders in power imposing forced labour, slave regime, mass deportation, in places where Bolsheviks are not in power they try to impose forced non-cooperation idleness, strikes, bankruptcies, and worker layoffs. Founded in Nazi occupied Italy in 1943, the Democrazia Cristiana / Christian Democratic Party became the largest party in the Italian parliament until its dissolution in 1994 following corruption scandals. Fair condition, folds, tears, paper losses, staining, creasing. Country of issue: Italy, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 86x58, year of printing: 1940s.

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