---
title: '1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: PNF election poster as reproduced in L''Illustration, April 1924'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bolscevismo-fascismo-pnf-illustration-1924/
description: Two-panel election poster headed '1919 - Bolscevismo' and '1923 - Fascismo'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Poster images of a ruined house, a grieving woman beside a fallen figure and red-flag marchers, set against a harvest scene. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: PNF election poster as reproduced in L'Illustration, April 1924](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bolscevismo-fascismo-pnf-illustration-1924.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bolscevismo-fascismo-pnf-illustration-1924.jpg)

# 1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: PNF election poster as reproduced in L'Illustration, April 1924

Two-panel election poster headed '1919 - Bolscevismo' and '1923 - Fascismo'. On the left, men under a red flag stand over a ruined house and a seated woman beside a fallen figure; on the right, reapers and a woman carrying a sheaf work a field in daylight. Chosen scenes of disorder are set against chosen scenes of order, and the whole difference is credited to the ideology in the label.

## Text on the object

Original (Italian (with a French caption)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
1919 - BOLSCEVISMO
1923 - FASCISMO
PNF

[French caption printed beneath the image in L'Illustration:]
Les méfaits du bolchevisme en 1919; les bienfaits du fascisme en 1923.
[illegible]e pour la période électorale.
```

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

```
1919 - BOLSHEVISM
1923 - FASCISM
PNF (National Fascist Party)

[French caption:]
The misdeeds of Bolshevism in 1919; the benefits of fascism in 1923.
[illegible] for the electoral period.
```

The last line of the French caption is cut off at the left edge of the committed image, so its first word or words are marked [illegible]. The tiny artist or printer marks in the lower corners of each panel are not legible.

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