hohoho@lemmy.world to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days agoNo mercy for fascismlemmy.worldimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1628arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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-squareIsoprenoidlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-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
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-23 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.
What’s the origins of this poster? It’s exactly what we need in this world right now.
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
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.