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‘We fight against Bolshevism! Shared struggle — shared victory!’ Axis propaganda from Lithuania
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Description: A European man’s arm holds up a sword, implicitly likening the Axis to the Crusaders, and behind it are three Baltic flags and two other European ones: the flag of Lithuania, the flag of Latvia, the flag of the Third Reich, a flag of Finland, and the flag of Estonia. In the background is an unarmed Bolshevik skeleton (equating Bolshevism with death) looking at the sword with concern, almost trembling before it.
Brandishing a sword of all things against an animate skeleton who has no more flesh to lacerate or blood to bleed is kind of a fitting image for the fascist delusion that overwhelming brutality will crush an oppressed people's will. The colonized are wishfully depicted as dead, but frustratingly still walk, refusing to stay buried, their will to live after being stripped of so much a haunting mystery to the fascist cowards. Refusing to engage the mystery, they can only project their own fears - they surely sense that if their colonial grab fails, a sword would be fine tool to cut away the slave plantations and egg monopolies on which they've gorged.