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[Soviet Propaganda]  [American safety poster]

The first poster is from the Soviet Union, during their successful attempt to grasp the spirit of Communism and beat it to death against the walls of a brutal dictatorship. The second poster is from Imperial America; it does mention packages, and it doesn't doesn't have the phone number for the informers hotline, but once John "Death Squads" Negropointe has had a chance to settle in to his new job, they'll release more accurate posters.

The thing I noticed about Imperial America's take on the traditional Soviet propaganda poster is that it's not nearly as good as the Soviet design. There are some pretty clunky pieces of soviet art, but the American propaganda poster just oozes "produced by a company where quality is job 3!" (job 1 and 2 are the now traditional payola to the GOP and overpaying your CEO, of course.) You'd think that it wouldn't break anything to go to one of the various art schools around Baltimore and actually hire some people who have, um, knowledge of how to do a good propaganda poster?

(link to the MARC propaganda poster via Arthur Silber)