In Shanghai, there is a whole museum (in the basement of an apartment building) devoted to propaganda posters like these.
One of the most fascinating things I noticed is that many of the posters depicted a wide range of non-Chinese people. Of course, idealized depictions of Soviets is to be expected, but what I didn't expect to see and actually ended up seeing a lot of were depictions of black Americans in images promoting Chinese communist ideals. In effect, China supported the Civil Rights Movement during the period that it was going through the Cultural Revolution because it saw race and class struggle to be intertwined, however problematic China's own struggles between minority and majority ethnic groups have been. And China also hoped that the Civil Rights Movement would take America down a notch. I found this all pretty mind blowing, and incredibly fascinating!
JScrambler on January 21st, 2018 at 21:57 UTC »
At least we know that the communist countries have awesome gyms.
awhellnogurl on January 21st, 2018 at 22:40 UTC »
omg that looks so gay how the fuck did they not notice it
cochon1010 on January 21st, 2018 at 22:51 UTC »
In Shanghai, there is a whole museum (in the basement of an apartment building) devoted to propaganda posters like these.
One of the most fascinating things I noticed is that many of the posters depicted a wide range of non-Chinese people. Of course, idealized depictions of Soviets is to be expected, but what I didn't expect to see and actually ended up seeing a lot of were depictions of black Americans in images promoting Chinese communist ideals. In effect, China supported the Civil Rights Movement during the period that it was going through the Cultural Revolution because it saw race and class struggle to be intertwined, however problematic China's own struggles between minority and majority ethnic groups have been. And China also hoped that the Civil Rights Movement would take America down a notch. I found this all pretty mind blowing, and incredibly fascinating!