Another propaganda piece is an artwork created by Herbert Smagon in 1989 titled “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” and it portrays the drastic difference between West and East Germany. Smagon’s controversial work solidifies the piece as propaganda; His service in World War Two had a huge influence on his art, which revolved around Nazi soldiers and graphic war scenes. The piece shows the oppression those in the communist country endured and how the destruction of the wall will bring them back into the light of freedom.

https://medium.com/@catiecooper1414/why-propaganda-changed-how-we-viewed-the-berlin-wall-65be231ce6b5

Imagine not only thinking but unironically painting this piece and thinking it portrayed Western Germany as a good place.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Yeah, I think the artist was a mass of fascist brainworms hiding in a skin-suit and this is supposed to depict joyous Eastern Germans rushing to supposed freedom only to be embraced by what a Fascist thinks is “moral degredation” or something. ie, the treat hog west German hedonists have betrayed the purity of the Aryan nation, blah blah blah, the East Germans are rushing from one oppression to the other.

        That’s the best I can come up with to explain this in light of the artists brainworms.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Some might remember that Eastern bloc women enjoyed many rights and privileges unknown in liberal democracies at the time, including major state investments in their education and training, their full incorporation into the labor force, generous maternity leave allowances and guaranteed free child care. But there’s one advantage that has received little attention: Women under Communism enjoyed more sexual pleasure. A comparative sociological study of East and West Germans conducted after reunification in 1990 found that Eastern women had twice as many orgasms as Western women.

      Per NY Times: https://archive.is/da9fy