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title: Opera Nazionale Balilla school report cover, Ministero Educazione Nazionale (Italy, 1932)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/opera-balilla-pagella-copertina-1932/
description: 'Dark-green cover of a pupil''s report card (pagella): a tapering stack of white and black vertical bars studded with axe-blades forms a stepped pyramid'
section: Collection
---

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[![Opera Nazionale Balilla school report cover, Ministero, 1932 Fascist Italy print: Dark-green cover of a pupil's report card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/opera-balilla-pagella-copertina-1932.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/opera-balilla-pagella-copertina-1932.jpg)

# Opera Nazionale Balilla school report cover, Ministero Educazione Nazionale (Italy, 1932)

Dark-green cover of a pupil's report card (pagella): a tapering stack of white and black vertical bars studded with axe-blades forms a stepped pyramid or fasces-like tower above the printed words MINISTERO EDVCAZIONE NAZIONALE and OP. NAZ. 'BALILLA'. A circular office stamp is partly visible at lower left and a small designer's mark at lower right. The tell: the state's own school stationery carries the fasces as a modernist monument, so the first document a six-year-old brings home already pairs the school with the party's emblem.

## Propaganda techniques used in this print

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Full record

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

## Text on the object

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

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

```
MINISTERO EDVCAZIONE NAZIONALE
OP. NAZ. "BALILLA"
```

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

```
Ministry of National Education. National Balilla Organisation.
```

The circular stamp at lower left is only partly visible and is not transcribed.

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