# decorate my apartment with propaganda and dissent! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136 "2010-01-08T05:15:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/21 "2010-01-08T21:37:02Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > It looks like it might be a Vichy France poster, actually - it portrays the US as a rather unfriendly-looking octopus with dollar signs in its eyes, which is not exactly flattering. Also - my French is terrible, but I suspect “Non! Le France ne sera pas un pays colonise!” means something like “No! France will not be colonized/a colony!” So, it’s the Vichy government trying to mobilize opposition to the Allies - particularly the US - by claiming that Vichy defeat will subject the people to American rule. > > Or maybe not - did I mention that I got Ds in high school french? Yours makes a lot more sense than what I thought. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/22 "2010-01-08T21:52:54Z")
You’re on the right track, but it’s a French communist poster. They would have been almost certainly opposed to the Vichy government. It was funded by workers in a Renault factory (car company). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/23 "2010-01-08T21:56:29Z")
I’m partial to [this one](http://www.marx-brothers.org/whyaduck/cards/all-hail.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/24 "2010-01-08T22:07:35Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > [Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?](http://www.georgetownbookshop.com/georgetown/display2.asp?id=167). > > We have this one framed, hanging on our bathroom door. That’s a great site. Thanks for posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/25 "2010-01-08T22:22:12Z")
It’s more of an apparel thing, but you really need [this](http://hideyourarms.com/2009/07/07/che-guevara-wearing-che-guevara-tshirt-atshirt/). ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/26 "2010-01-08T22:27:05Z")
This is cool, the Soviet Anthem featuring a slide show of communist propaganda posters. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/f2-zzmCmMVI/hqdefault.jpg "Hymn of the Soviet Union") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-zzmCmMVI) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/27 "2010-01-08T22:45:06Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > You’re on the right track, but it’s a French communist poster. They would have been almost certainly opposed to the Vichy government. It was funded by workers in a Renault factory (car company). D’oh! Should have caught that - “colonialism” is the traditional boogeyman of communist groups, after all. Fascists generally don’t condemn it - after all, they want _their_ countries to have colonies. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/28 "2010-01-08T22:53:44Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > This is cool, the Soviet Anthem featuring a slide show of communist propaganda posters. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-zzmCmMVI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-zzmCmMVI) If I ever have a revolution I’m going to steal that anthem. It is spine tingling. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/29 "2010-01-08T23:39:00Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > If I ever have a revolution I’m going to steal that anthem. It is spine tingling. That’s weird, I don’t find it chilling or “spine tingling” at all. It’s rather upbeat. Is it just because they’re singing in Russian? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/30 "2010-01-09T00:28:50Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > That’s weird, I don’t find it chilling or “spine tingling” at all. It’s rather upbeat. Is it just because they’re singing in Russian? That’s probably it. Everything sounds more revolutionary in Russian. I have a question, did these posters actually work? ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/31 "2010-01-09T00:34:00Z")
I’m not sure “spine tingling” was supposed to be a bad thing. I really like Russian male choirs, myself. If there’s one thing the Red Army was good at, it was the music. Thanks for the link **Icerigger** , we are studying the 1917 Revolution next week and I will make my daughter watch it! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/32 "2010-01-09T00:58:46Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > My recommendation would be the vintage section of [allposters.com, subsection propaganda.](http://www.allposters.com/-st/Propaganda-Vintage-Art-Posters_c18502_.htm) Those. Were. Awesome. hh ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/33 "2010-01-09T05:30:01Z")
A stars-and-bars “FUCK COMMUNISM!!” poster (either vintage or a reprint… or even just a computer printout) from Paul Krassner’s counter-cultural political, satirical mag \*The Realist \*would be right up your alley, I should think. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/34 "2010-01-09T11:47:17Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > That’s probably it. Everything sounds more revolutionary in Russian. You could try [Paul Robeson’s version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU3vUOa2sw). (Note: this is the 1944-edition lyrics. Good ol’ Uncle Joe! :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/35 "2010-01-09T12:18:00Z")
Yeah, I like that one as well it really makes you want to join the party. Lets all sing… The great Soviet Union shall live through the ages, A mighty republic shall ever endure… Long, live our Soviet motherland, built by the people’s mighty hand… and my favorite line: **and with Stalin our leader with faith in the people…** You mean all the people Stalin and Beria left alive? ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/36 "2010-01-09T12:50:46Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > Make sure to have copies of Das Kapital and Mein Kampf placed prominently on the coffee table. 😃 Don’t forget _Atlas Shrugged_. Then you could have _Common Sense_ as dissenting literature. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/37 "2010-01-09T13:52:16Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > You mean all the people Stalin and Beria left alive? “The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/38 "2010-01-10T10:24:14Z")
From our own propoganda files, how about MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? And rather than the usual portrait of Che, maybe there is access to the movie poster. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/39 "2010-01-10T13:00:38Z")
I meant spine-tingling in a good way. I didn’t mean it in a chilling way. The Robeson version is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136/40 "2010-01-10T13:02:02Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > From our own propoganda files, how about MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? From our own, I rather like [these three](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11514714&postcount=2). Strange bedfellows, eh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decorate-my-apartment-with-propaganda-and-dissent/524136.md?page=3)