Carteles Guerra Mundiales

                   World War Posters

Poster is the political arm of the poster that focuses on political propaganda. The political poster is an effective transmission of ideologies graphic and visual instrument. It has been defined as "a cry in the wall" that grabs attention and compels to receive a message. Throughout the twentieth century has been used as a tool of political propaganda of any political, democratic or authoritarian regime.

Guerra Civil Española

                             Civil War Poster

The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española)was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975.

The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, under the leadership of José Sanjurjo, against the elected government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña.

Carteles Comunistas

                          Communist posters

             Beloved Stalin - The happiness of the people

 Under Stalin the revolutionary association between the Bolsheviks and the workers that was forged in the October Revolution of 1917 faded because of the huge expansion of the the urban working class through the recruitment of peasants into the factories and mines and the enormous demands placed on workers by the Five Year Plans, demands that prompted grievances and covert forms of resistance.

Arquitectura del siglo XX

                        20TH Century Architeqture

                                           GPO

The project for the Post Office building of Santander presented by Eugenio Fernandez Quintanilla, considered the heir of Leonardo Rucabado and Secundino Zuazo proved was chosen in the 1915 contest. This project advocated regional deestilos use with a trend somewhat ornamental.

Ficha de arte :neoimpresionismo

                                      NEOIMPRESIONISM                           The Bed | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In the painting The bed, we can see two laying women looking at each other. Although the character in the right might seem a man is, actually, a woman with short hair. On the scene, Lautrec himself said “…It is the very epitome of sensual delight”.  The artist painted an almost identical canvas entitled The kiss, in which the two characters are obviously kissing. Beyond the first impression, these paintings don’t reflect a lesbian relationship between the women. The girls that worked in the cabarets usually slept together at the end of the night, because there wasn’t any room for individual beds. It was common that the bond they developed was more fraternal than sexual, although this can be generalized. Lautrec’s The bed doesn’t seem to be about erotic desire. It just shows a tender scene where the women shelter together protecting themselves against a hostile or, at least, an indifferent world.

D-Day

     For the first day of the Invasion of Normandy, see Normandy landings

The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. They designate the day and hour of the operation when the day and hour have not yet been determined, or where secrecy is essential. For a given operation, the same D-Day and H-Hour apply for all units participating in it. When used in combination with numbers, and plus or minus signs, these terms indicate the point of time preceding or following a specific action. Thus, H−3 means 3 hours before H-Hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-Day. (By extension, H+75 minutes is used for H-Hour plus 1 hour and 15 minutes.) Planning papers for large-scale operations are made up in detail long before specific dates are set. Thus, orders are issued for the various steps to be carried out on the D-Day or H-Hour minus or plus a certain number of days, hours, or minutes. At the appropriate time, a subsequent order is issued that states the actual day and times.In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day of the Normandy landings  — initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War ll. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after that operation.

Other days such as A-Day (Battle of leyte), L-Day  (Battle of Okinawa) etc. have different meaningsfor the military.

Other languages have terms equivalent to D-Day such as "Hari H" (indonesian),Час Ч (Russian), Dagen D (Swedish), Dan D(Slovenian), E eguna (Basque), Jour J (French), Lá L (Irish), Tag X (German), and Ziua-Z (Romanian). The initial D in D-Day has been given various meanings in the past, while more recently it has obtained the connotation of "Day" itself, thereby creating the phrase "Day-Day", or "Day of Days

Stalin and Lenin photo correction

   

The Water Commissar

   This image taken by the Moscow canall was taken when Nikolai Yezhov was water commissar. After he fell from power, he was arrested, shot, and his image removed by the censors.

Nikolai Yezhov

Yezhov was born in Saint Petersburg and from 1915 to 1917, Yezhov served in the Tsarist Russian army. He joined the Bolsheviks on May 5, 1917, in Vitebsk, a few months before the October Revolution. During the Russian civil war 1919–1921 he fought in the Red Army.

 After February 1922, he worked in the political system rising in 1934 to the Central Committee of the Communist Party; in the next year he became a secretary of the Central Committee. From February 1935 to March 1939 he was also the Chairman of the Central Commission for Party Control.

In 1935 he wrote a paper in which he argued that political opposition must eventually lead to violence and terrorism; this became in part the ideological basis of the Purges. He became People's Commisar for Afairs  (head of the NKVD) and a member of the Presidium Centra Executivel Committee on September 26, 1936. Under Yezhov, the purges reached their height, with roughly half of the Soviet political and military establishment being imprisoned or shot, along with hundreds of thousands of others, suspected of disloyalty or "wrecking" Yezhov himself fell out of Stalin's favour and on April 10, 1939, he was arrested and on February 4, 1940, he was executed

 

Lenin's speec

Leon Trotsky On May 5, 1920, Lenin gave a famous speech to a crowd of Soviet troops in Sverdlov Square, Moscow. In the foreground was Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev. The photo was later altered and both were removed by censors.

Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лeв Давидович Трóцкий) was a Ukrainian born Bolchevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo

He became an enemy of the State and was erased from Soviet history after leading the failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing bureaucratization of the Soviet Union. Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union in the Great Purge. As the head of the Fourth International , he continued in exile to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, and was eventually assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a Soviet agent who used an ice axe to fatally stab Trotsky. Trotsky's ideas form the basis of Trotskiyism, a variation of communist theory, which remains a major school of Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories of Stalinism.