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arrow-up1627arrow-down1imageNo mercy for fascismlemmy.worldhohoho@lemmy.world to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square28fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareSassyRamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 days agoWhat’s the origins of this poster? It’s exactly what we need in this world right now.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·3 days agoBased on the existence of the swastika, I’m going to say some time in the early 1940s.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agothere’s a “16” under the signature. that’s typically a date signifier. I’m gonna guess this is modern from 2016.
minus-squarehobovision@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoFrom another reply it seems it’s a modification of a poster from 1918, so in the original under the signature is actually an 18.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agointeresting, i figured it couldn’t be 1918 because the swastika wasn’t associated with facism yet, but the swastika was just added later i guess.
minus-squareIsoprenoid@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-23 days agoI did some sleuthing. It has been adapted from a poster about fighting against tuberculosis. https://www.loc.gov/item/99613643/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_strangling_of_a_poisonous_snake,_representing_the_crushi_Wellcome_L0029946.jpg
What’s the origins of this poster? It’s exactly what we need in this world right now.
Based on the existence of the swastika, I’m going to say some time in the early 1940s.
there’s a “16” under the signature. that’s typically a date signifier. I’m gonna guess this is modern from 2016.
From another reply it seems it’s a modification of a poster from 1918, so in the original under the signature is actually an 18.
interesting, i figured it couldn’t be 1918 because the swastika wasn’t associated with facism yet, but the swastika was just added later i guess.
I did some sleuthing. It has been adapted from a poster about fighting against tuberculosis.
https://www.loc.gov/item/99613643/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_strangling_of_a_poisonous_snake,_representing_the_crushi_Wellcome_L0029946.jpg