Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bolschewismus ohne Maske

Bolschewismus ohne Maske

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Original - A 1937 anti-Bolshevik Nazi propaganda poster. A man with a skeleton face stands over bloody corpses, wielding a whip. His hat and clothing are Bolshevik in style. Translated caption: "Bolshevism without a mask - large anti-Bolshevik exhibition of the NSDAP Gauleitung Berlin from November 6, 1937 to December 19, 1937 in the Reichstag building".

Reason: A jarring poster. Supports the article well, demonstrating the Nazi party's use of of propaganda to create external enemies for the German people. Warning: High resolution image. Use the courtesy file if you're just glancing at it. Unrestored version: File:Bolschewismus ohne Maske.jpg.
Articles in which this image appears: Nazi propaganda
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator: Herbert Agricola, restored by Jujutacular

Support as nominator --Jujutacular ^T · C 07:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Thanks to Hekerui for the translation. Jujutacular ^T · C 16:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support. Superb scan, great restoration. NauticaShad es 20:24, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support The original was in pretty bad shape; this looks good to me. Great EV. And many thanks to the nazis for pointing out the cruelty of the Bolsheviks. :-P Fletcher (talk) 01:23, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support for historical value. According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD USSR detained 1,548,367 victims. (it is minimal official quantity) --George Chernilevsky ^talk 07:05, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I hope that everyone is joking and no one is so naive to think that that "cruelty" is a feature of Bolsheviks, or at least, if you want, not to ignore it is a feature of every single important and powerful regime that ever existed or currently exists on earth. This is propaganda. It contains part of the truth but as all propaganda the part convenient for the one producing it. The is the same kind of propaganda (containing analogous partial truths) about any other regime:(I was going to put examples but that way probably people can get offended. Just pick your random one.). Gnemetropos (talk) 16:05, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let's just stick to the point here. It's impossible to reach a conclusion here on what the true face of Bolshevism was that we'll all agree upon. The question is whether this picture has enough quality and encyclopedic value to qualify as an FP. In my opinion, it has: its technical and artistic quality are obvious and I think it provides a typical example of Nazi propaganda and its illustrations, so I'll simply support. --Desiderius82 (talk) 12:59, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Echoing the above, very nice scan, very good restoration, incredible EV. Thanks btw for the courtesy version, holy file sizes Batman. Cat-five - talk 03:03, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per NauticaShades and others. Nice work. --Avenue (talk) 11:06, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Bolschewismus ohne Maske2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:38, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]