San Francisco area, San Rafael
 

Museum of International Propaganda in San Rafael. Now it's my favorite museum of all the Bay Area. So many memories came back looking at the former USSR posters! Very interesting, and I recommend to visit if you are in that area.
https://museumofpropaganda.org/

Thanks for this, Dayenu. There are a fair number of people who could learn from this.

Ha ha, I agree!

Thanks so much, Dayenu! (And chag sameach while we're at it.)

I love propaganda posters, and have three of them hanging on the wall in my living room, two original and one reproduction.

The original ones are (a) a US poster from 1943 warning people to keep mum about their loved ones' whereabouts; the image is pretty well known and was used in the closing credits for the first Captain America movie -
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fod...812bf3b5ba.jpg
The second one (no useful picture at present) is a Soviet poster from the late 1940s showing men pouring liquid steel in a stylized open-hearth steel plant, titled "More steel for the Soviet state!" and urging the production of 25.4 million tons of steel by 1950.

The reproduction is from an exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem from 1998 which displayed Soviet and Israeli propaganda art from 1930 - 1955. It includes a fantastical Soviet airplane flying over (then) Leningrad dropping something orange by parachute. Weird but I love it.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fod...b2d385892d.jpg

Thanks again for the link!

Though the US has never had a totalitarian government, I hope there is an exhibit on US propaganda.

Chanukah Sameach, Gardyloo! We loved the museum so much that my son and I decided to donate our Soviet-era pins and posters to the museum. We'll definitely go there again.

Prairie, yes, they have some US propaganda displayed also, along with Korea, Cuba (Fidel and Che Guevara), Guatemala - and I am sure I am missing many other countries. They collected the posters for 30 years.

Click on the "political" category and enjoy!

https://www.chisholm-poster.com/

We will be in SF in April. This sounds interesting.

We had a two day stop in St. Petersburg in 2007 and used a tour co. through our cruise line. Our guide Anna was Russian and for two days we heard a lot of “great Russian” descriptives like great Russian generals, great Russian architects, great Russian athletes and so on. No great Russian chefs however. :lol:

Jacketwatch, if you make it to the museum, you will see the "great Russian leaders", one of them is on the bathroom door.

Lenin?

Jacketwatch, yes, your guess is correct :lol:

I have driven by the museum and always wondered about it. Now I know it is worth a visit!

I'm local and have never been! Will have to check it out.