Content note: Nationalist Spanish poster caricaturing Freemasons and politicians, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Bando nacional (Nationalist Spain); author and publisher not named on the Commons record
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nationalist Spain
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Leader
- Francisco Franco
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Barrer España - Bando nacional (1).jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked
BOLCHEVISMO INJUSTICIA SOCIAL POLITICASTROS MASONES FAI SEPARATISMO D.E.P.P.
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.
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