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I Love Government Propaganda Posters

January 17, 2002 - 2:13pm

John is not really dull he may only need his eyes examined.
Posters distributed by our government have always interested me, because I grew up thinking only the Nazi's spread propaganda. I was in high school before I learned that our government does it too. And of course at the time I was fascinated.

This Library of Congress page that Mena found, reminded me of a trip to DC as a high school student. There was an exhibit of WWII posters that grabbed my attention because of the blatant messages behind them. So today I was excited to see the link and laugh at some of the ridiculous posters. We're really not this dumb, right?

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I really like the "Help your neighborhood by keeping your tenement clean" poster....Seeing as how many of the adult occupants spoke/read very little english. Good intentions are not always effective. Cool link, though :)
Posted by SummerStar on January 17, 2002 - 5:09pm

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