If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next, Spanish Ministerio de Propaganda, c1937.
The Republican government published the poster of a child killed by Nationalist bombers during the Spanish Civil war. This, alongside Picasso’s Guernica (which was also produced following German/Italian bombing raids for the Nationalists in Spain in 1937) stand as two of the most chilling pieces of political art, one as propaganda, one as independent art.

If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next, Spanish Ministerio de Propaganda, c1937.

The Republican government published the poster of a child killed by Nationalist bombers during the Spanish Civil war. This, alongside Picasso’s Guernica (which was also produced following German/Italian bombing raids for the Nationalists in Spain in 1937) stand as two of the most chilling pieces of political art, one as propaganda, one as independent art.

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