Truly amazing – they’re about as subtle as a sledgehammer. I think they’re even less subtle than American propaganda cartoons, but that might be just my familiarity with them prejudicing me.
Well, let’s not forget that for the Russians, Hitler wasn’t “over there somewhere”; he was in their streets. There wasn’t any buffer of Western European resistance between them and the advancing Nazis. It wasn’t a time for subtle, ironic propaganda - it was a time for calling for every last ounce of heroic effort they could muster.
While that’s certainly true, I’ve noticed a lack of subtlety in other Soviet propaganda both before and after the war. Stalin liked to make his point clear, and he had no Goebbels to use sophisticated techniques.
Walt Disney’s Education for Death. Enjoy.