Rate Greek civil war (post-WW2) communist poster

[Faklon]

So, the Nazis were kicked out of the country by an alliance of Greek nationalists, Greek communist partisans, and British forces.

Α new struggle begins where the Greek nationalists work together with the British to erase the communist threat supported by the Soviet Union, started with the Dekemvriana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekemvriana) and escalated to the Greek civil war.

During this period, the Greek communists put up this poster addressing general Ronald Scobie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Scobie) and how the Greek mother will be endangered by the British troops depicted as an evil black man.

https://www.zougla.gr/assets/images/319015.jpg


Opinions? How does it flow with modern sociopolitics?

[Hektor12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Louise_Jensen

[Blondie]

This poster is a little bit laughable, because overwhelmingly majority of american or british troops were whites. Black soldiers were in secondary role in general.

[kingmob]

Representative of communist aesthetics.

The better topic is why do we still call it a 'civil' war?

'Civil' dictates an intraethnic conflict.

Nothing Greek, modern or otherwise, about the ethnic affiliation of 'Greek communists'.

[Faklon]

This poster is a little bit laughable, because overwhelmingly majority of american or british troops were whites. Black soldiers were in secondary role in general.

Tbh, I haven't seen a black Brit from photographs of this period. At least not here, probably there were some.

I have seen Black Nazis from the Free Arabian Legion.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-177-1465-16%2C_Griechenland%2C_Soldaten_der_%22Legion_Freie s_Arabien%22.jpg

But even more interesting is that this poster comes from a communist front sponsored by the Soviet Union fighting against nationalists, and Brits seeking geopolitical interest.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Louise_Jensen

Unlike us, Cypriots love their Brits no matter how drunk.

[Faklon]

Representative of communist aesthetics.

The better topic is why do we still call it a 'civil' war?

'Civil' dictates an intraethnic conflict.

Nothing Greek, modern or otherwise, about the ethnic affiliation of 'Greek communists'.

Many people fighting for EAM and DSE were brainwashed patriots and religious, obviously not Zachariadis and probably not those who created this poster.

[kingmob]

Many people fighting for EAM and DSE were brainwashed patriots and religious, obviously not Zachariadis and probably not those who created this poster.


Yes, you are correct in your assessment.

Obviously, not the creature called Zachariadis and his bands of goons in Northern Greece.

[Blondie]

Tbh, I haven't seen a black Brit from photographs of this period. At least not here, probably there were some.

I have seen Black Nazis from the Free Arabian Legion.

But even more interesting is that this poster comes from a communist front sponsored by the Soviet Union fighting against nationalists, and Brits seeking geopolitical interest.

Yeah, btw this poster is interesting, i mean i thought commies are internationalists :)

[Renekton]

https://youtu.be/fnAFaIM-s8M

[kingmob]

Very few made the commie filth in Greece seethe like he did:


https://www.eaas.gr/sites/default/files/styles/news_original_image/public/arthra-sinadelfwn/FOSTERIDHS%20ANTONIOS-2%20%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF% 86%CE%BF.jpg?itok=GzRn6Ctx

[Incal]

Whoever made that post, foresaw the future.

[Faklon]

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[Tooting Carmen]

Communists, especially back then, were far less into racial equality than is commonly believed. But why use a Black person to represent a Brit in the 1940's?

[Faklon]

Communists, especially back then, were far less into racial equality than is commonly believed.

It's not that simple.
It's things like racial equality that define the modern "left" before even economics.


But why use a Black person to represent a Brit in the 1940's?


Don't know.
Brits were using people from the commonwealth for the fronts here, but I haven't heard about Blacks. Indians and Australasians mostly.

[gixajo]

Communists, especially back then, were far less into racial equality than is commonly believed. But why use a Black person to represent a Brit in the 1940's?

Colonial troops...?

But British used to have Indians or Pakis more than Blacks...