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title: ¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!! (Falange youth poster, Cádiz)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/flechas-a-la-espana-grande-falange-poster-1937/
description: Colour poster of a youth in blue shirt and shorts, with the Falange yoke-and-arrows badge on his chest and another at upper left.
section: Collection
---

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[![¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!!, 1937 Spain poster: Colour poster of a youth in blue shirt and shorts, with the Falange](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/flechas-a-la-espana-grande-falange-poster-1937.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/flechas-a-la-espana-grande-falange-poster-1937.jpg)

# ¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!! (Falange youth poster, Cádiz)

Colour poster of a youth in blue shirt and shorts, with the Falange yoke-and-arrows badge on his chest and another at upper left, throwing a bundle of arrows, over the red lettering '¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!!'. The tell: a boy's athletic throw stands in for national destiny, with the party emblem doing the work of the argument.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## 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

```
¡¡Flechas... a la España grande!!
ESTABLECIMIENTOS GERÓN - CADIZ
Macías
```

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

```
Arrows... for Greater Spain!! (the pun is on 'flechas', arrows, and the Falange youth 'Flechas')
```

Signature read as 'Macías'. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

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