The 20th Century Propaganda Poster is Still Fighting in 21st Century Ukraine

Classic PSYOPS in the iPhone epoch

Jul 27, 2022

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By the end of the 19th Century, the industrialized masses were literate enough, and the industrial presses fast enough, to have mass culture. Advertisers and other propagandists took note right away, but of course the whole project got its biggest boost after 1914 and 1939 amid the outbreak of World Wars. What’s new today is the QR code on this poster, …

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