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title: Barrer España, Bando nacional (Nationalist poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/barrer-espana-bando-nacional-poster-1937/
description: Colour poster showing a huge soldier in a side cap with a broom, in front of the red-yellow-red flag, sweeping away two small.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Nationalist Spanish poster caricaturing Freemasons and politicians, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Barrer España, Bando nacional, 1937 Spain poster: Colour poster showing a huge soldier in a side cap with a broom, in front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/barrer-espana-bando-nacional-poster-1937.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/barrer-espana-bando-nacional-poster-1937.jpg)

# Barrer España, Bando nacional (Nationalist poster)

Colour poster showing a huge soldier in a side cap with a broom, in front of the red-yellow-red flag, sweeping away two small, distorted men in a top hat and tails and in a suit, together with a hammer and sickle and a Masonic square and compass, among the words 'Bolchevismo', 'Injusticia social', 'Politicastros', 'Masones', 'FAI' and 'Separatismo'. The tell: very different groups (communists, Freemasons, anarchists, regional parties and politicians) are placed in one list of things to be swept off the floor, and the opponent is drawn as small, grotesque and disposable.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BOLCHEVISMO
INJUSTICIA SOCIAL
POLITICASTROS
MASONES
FAI
SEPARATISMO
D.E.P.P.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Bolshevism; social injustice; petty politicians; Freemasons; FAI (Federación Anarquista Ibérica); separatism
```

'Politicastros' is a pejorative for politicians. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

[← ¡Arriba España! (Falange poster drawing, about 1937)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arriba-espana-falange-drawing-1937/) [Dominion of Canada (map, Department of Mines and Resources) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-dominion-of-canada-map-1937/)

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