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CRUSH THE FASCIST REPTILE! MEDICAL AID FOR RUSSIA

Theme: Making posters in South Africa: Shattering the silence


Call Number: 3596
Identifier: AL2446_3596
Title: CRUSH THE FASCIST REPTILE! MEDICAL AID FOR RUSSIA
Date: 1941
Subject: Images of Defiance-IOD;
Medical aid;
South Africa;
Soviet War;
Description: This poster is silkscreened in green, red, black and white graphics texts on grey. This is an anti-fascist, pro-Allied poster produced to raise funds in South Africa for the Soviet war effort in the 1940s. The text reads “CRUSH THE FASCIST REPTILE! MEDICAL AID FOR RUSSIA”Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 3 (number 3) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition.
Creator: PAG
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpg
Preservation image - tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some material is held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information
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