The message of this propaganda means that these fifteen people, each representing a different religion, group, and culture are united together in this poster. The poster tries to tell the people of Russia not to fight, but to unite together into one powerful nation, as you can see in the propaganda the flags of each religion are made into a picture of the Soviet Union. You can tell whether they are from religions or not because of their traditional costumes. The picture of the Soviet Union flag looks mostly red from a far point and is also shining will bright green lights meaning that the Soviet Union is made up by these people, the people of Russia. Therefore, this poster encourages the people of Russia to unite into one country representing themselves as the Soviet Union. I think that this propaganda is effective to the people since it persuades the people to unite.
This poster is trying to tell the people of Russia that sending workers to work in Siberia is a great opportunity to achieve something big. This poster is trying to change a person’s thought toward this cruel way of getting rid of people who opposes Stalin. Stalin sneakily brain-washes the people of Russia to think that sending people to Siberia is a great way of improving their lives, instead of thinking that Stalin is exiling the people who might threaten his rule in Russia. Therefore, the poster tries to make the reader believe that the people in Siberia are enjoying their work since they have huge smiles on their faces. This is an effective way tricking a person’s mind showing how clever Stalin is and how planned and organized he is. However, you may notice that the colours of the people’s clothes are dull meaning they are employed to a bad occupation, which would not really attract the people of Russia to go to work in Siberia.
This propaganda poster shows the people of Russia that the future of Russia can be like the industrial city shown in the poster. This poster is trying to encouraging them to cultivate vegetables near factories. They are told to use the system, Five-Years Plan (collectivization), to improve their industries and agriculture. The poster shows the reader that when there is a lot of food supplied (surplus), which they can sell in industrialized cities. Therefore, this poster suggests that why shouldn't they farm near the cities for many benefits to the city since food is one key to Russia. This poster is also effective because it makes the people of Russia consider this effective way of living for their own benefit. Meaning they are doing for the sake of their future and it also improves the city's food supplies if agriculture takes place near industrialized cities.
This propaganda poster resembles something to do with responsibility and rightfulness. There is a red hand catching a bunch of people’s arms who are trying to steal money. This picture clearly shows that people who do not work should not get an equal amount of share. The poster shows that it is not right that the people who work hard should share their earnings. In addition, the poster also tells the people about the Kulaks. The red hand is stopping the Kulaks from stealing the worker's earning because the New Economic Policy is changed to the Collectivization. Kulaks hated Collectivization because they didn't get any profit from this new system instead they lost a lot of lands. Therefore, this is an effective poster to the workers because the poster now tells them that they do not need to worry about their earning because they will get depending on how much effort they put in to their work.
This propaganda poster's message is that the people should work harder because following their new system; they have an opportunity to achieve something greater, meaning they will get paid as how much effort they put in to their work. The background shows a man and a woman, showing that there would be no difference in achieving anything big even though their genders are different. In my opinion, I think this is another effective poster as it gives the people of Russia more hope, freedom, and courage.
In conclusion, these posters were basically made for people rights except some propaganda posters. However, the posters mostly helped the people think and give steps to guide them to which path of life they should take. There was a lot of use of propaganda posters during the Russian Revolution since it was a time when there was always a person who led the country and needed to have the people's belief in the person (meaning the leader). Therefore, the use of propaganda was for the good and also for the bad, but mainly made/shown for the people of Russia and the Soviet Union's benefit. Hence, you can see that propaganda was used in a variety of ways.
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