Comenius civil war propaganda

1. The Spanish Civil War.

2. 1. The propaganda in the Spanish
Civil War.

3. 2. What is propaganda?
Propaganda is an activity that is to convince the
public of the qualities, values and benefits
offered.
Also it uses posters, newspapers, informational
films, brochures etc.., to transmit messages.

4. 3. Spanish Civil War.
In this war society splits into two sides. Each side
used posters as a means of propaganda.
-THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. -THE NACIONAL SIDE.

5. 4.1. Women!
In the poster we see two important iconographic
resources that are characteristic for communism.
-The red star (very
frequent propaganda in
Soviet Union).
-The hammer and sickle (symbols
Communism adopted by the
Marxist-Leninists
from the Third International).

6. 4.2. Women!
It tries to convince women using the slogan
''to defend your freedoms and rights'' to
define the objectives of the organization.
Another poster that treats the topic of the
female role.

7. 5. The Republican Side.
Unlike the cartel wants to
convince men to join the
Communist Party. Drive the
words to the workers,
peasants, soldiers and
intellectuals, who can fight.
The Communist Party was a
political party that based its
ideology and practices in
Marxist theory.

8. 5.1. Reinforce ranks.
The great part of the poster
takes up the Soviet flag the
characteristic symbol is the
hammer and sickle.
The figure of Leon Trotsky
appears on the flag. It was a
very strange politic who was
the leader of an international
revolutionary movement
leftmost identified with the
name of Trotskyism.

9. 6. The National Side.
Women in the civil war had
an importance also in the
national side. The family
and home were the main
areas, but we can not forget
about their existential
labour.

10. 6.1. Women at work.
- 1,140 women worked in
laundries, there were 76 washing
sites that worked during the war.
- 20,000 women worked in the
factories that supplied clothes to
the soldiers of the national army.
- The Created Female Section
organized courses to educate new
nurses coming to mobilize 8,000
women.

11. 6.2. For a better Spain.
The slogan of a cartel is
'' For Mother and son
and for a better Spain ''.
In this claim states that
the objective is to
improve the situation in
the country.

12. 7. The National Side.
The Slogan of a cartel is'' SPAIN UP! ''. Convince
the uprising, to fight against the Republicans.
The iconographic element is the yoke and
arrows, holding symbols of the Catholic Kings,
you can define which symbolizes strength and
combat.

13. 7.1. The National Side.
This poster presents the soldier, he his hands
are holding two flags, one of the National Side
and the other is representing Falange Side.

14. 8. The Falange.
The Spanish Falange was a Spanish political
party of the extreme right with the
characteristics of fascism and Catholic
traditionalists components. Before the war it
joins the JONS.

15. 9. Unity.
''Talking about Spain is named Falange''. The
slogan tries to surround the issue of the national
side containing the fact that the Spanish Falange
belongs to that side of the conflict. It also
indicates that the approval of that party's
support for the homeland.

16. 10. The comparison.
- THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. - THE NATIONAL SIDE.

17. 11. The Republican Side.
The poster shows the head of a
soldier with the different flags
of the countries that supported
the Republicans.
The People's Army were the
national armed forces of various
countries and non-regular war
forces organizations.

18. 12.''All molten militia ...''
The People's Army of the
Republic are organize between
July and August 1936 to deal to
the government attack that
started in July 17.
This poster join people, so
everyone can identify and know
that they will never be alone in
the conflict.

19. 13.The flags.
The face of a militant form flag of the "País
Vasco", the flag of the Spanish Republic , the
flag of "Cataluña", the flag of "Comunidad
Valenciana", the flag of "Madrid", the flag of
"Castilla y Leon" and the flag of "Andalucía".
Besides the letters that are below of the soldier
say "all joins militias in the Popular Army".

20. 14. The National Side.
The poster shows the head
of a soldier, in his helmet is
painted the boat into the
sea, on the left there is the
raised hands and on the
top there is a hidden small
eagle.

21. 15. The iconographic resources.
The boat symbolizes strength and solidity of a
national army, the raised hands are the element
of fascism that has the origin in nationalism. It is
a expression that teaches justice to the national
side and generally fascist system. When they
greeted, the shouted a motto that says: "Spain
up", the Falangists considered a sign of
patriotism and a statement of intentions.

22. 16. The slogan.
The slogan is ''Spain was and is immortal''.
The statement stresses that with the help and
effort the sense of nationality is maintained.
Spain with the support of the people can be
improved but only with the support of the
society.