Tyranny Sampler

"Hell will hold no surprises for you."
― Baron De Laubardemont, in The Devils (1971)

Tyrannies -- big and small, strongman governments tarted up with paternalism and slogans and great-looking posters. Oppression of the people, for the people. That sort of thing.

Shown here are posters from independent projects and editorial spot art from different blogs. Red text indicates a link.

SPOT ON, CITIZEN!
From the poster set, The Big Picturebook Of Fascism.

COMRADE PUTIN AND HIS CRITICS.
Posted October 15, 2006 at E-Nough!

UNCONDEMNABLE III.
Posted August 24, 2008 at E-Nough!/Pave.

UNCONDEMNABLE VIII.
Posted September 7, 2008 at E-Nough!/Pave.

TRUTHS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN.
From the poster set, Totalitarianism Is Bad.

UNCONDEMNABLE VI REDUX.
Posted September 2, 2008 at E-Nough!/Pave.

UNCONDEMNABLE X.
Posted September 18, 2008 at E-Nough!/Pave.

UNCONDEMNABLE XII.
Posted November 25, 2008 at E-Nough!/Pave.

VAMPYR.
From the poster set, The Big Picturebook Of Fascism.
(Used to illustrate this post at E-Nough!)

Poster text reads:

The Kremlin set its business day by the troubled sleep of Mr. Stalin and rewrote policy and reinvented history on the spot to accord with his waking views. Mr. Stalin’s genius, sensu lato, resided not in his perversions, which aside from scale were the ordinary stuff of criminal sociopathy, but in managing, year in, year out, the wholesale complicity of the Soviets in those perversions.

The Soviets, the great and the low, all queued up and vied, in turn, to be the biggest boosters, the pettiest of doctrinaire accusers, the cruelest tormentors, the most completely confessed, and finally the most gratefully abased of criminal slough eager to be whisked up into one of history’s bigger omelets.