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| Back | Copyright 2023 Curio and Relic | Last Modified: 12/2023 |
Starting with the fun stuff, we have a series of morale posters from the 2014 invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The 2014 posters all contain the tagline "Separatism Is Harmful To Your Health". Good classic pinup girl art. Saint Javalin and the tractor towing a captured Russian tank are from 2022, work of a Western artist raising money for Ukraine relief.
But countries have dark parts of their history. Stalin's forced collectiviation drive, coupled with political persecution created a famine that killed millions in Ukraine. That episode is referred to as the Holodomor ("death by hunger" or "killing by hunger".). In the wake of the Holomodor, Ukrainian anti-soviet / anti-communist sentiment joined with anti-semitism, lumping the Jews in with Stalin for blame. The final poster is a Russian poster written in Ukrainian, celebrating the joint Russian / German occupation of Poland starting in 1939-1941.