(Take a look at the site where the postcard is sold. Please bare with me the link is very long.)
Click on the link and look closely at the image that says, “Spreading the wealth since 1917”. Notice the man in the foreground is President Barack Obama and following him are other genuine socialist leaders (some of which I cannot name). I have heard the overstated and untrue claims on different news outlets about certain groups claiming the President is a socialist. But to see it in this context on a post card for sale online among other communist/socialist postcards was a very interesting form of propaganda. Especially since it is obviously by a private organization. Literally I was just searching “propaganda in post revolutionary Russia” and this is what came up.
Another aspect that was shocking to me about this postcard was the subtlety. When I found it I had been browsing through the post cards for a while before I realized what the image contained. It reminds me of a political cartoon. Although I don’t agree with the image it makes it’s point very clear in an astute manner. All in all it is very thought provoking what you can come across on the Internet.
I found this image by searching the title of the postcard on Google images.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BX2aSG8RqEU/Sq6xEtXmhaI/AAAAAAAACpQ/ouNfKH6Yxjo/s400/Socialists+-+Spreading+the+Wealth+Since+1917.jpg
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