La fuerza pública estaba al servicio de los caciques y de los enemigos del pueblo. La fuerza pública es hoy la garantía de la libertad y del orden republicano – Historic Reproduction
![La fuerza pública estaba al servicio de los caciques y de los enemigos del pueblo. La fuerza pública es hoy la garantía de la libertad y del orden republicano, [Spain] : Subsecretaría de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/94/9410522654de-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: La fuerza pública estaba al servicio de los caciques y de los enemigos del pueblo. La fuerza pública es hoy la garantía de la libertad y del orden republicano, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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La fuerza pública estaba al servicio de los caciques y de los enemigos del pueblo. La fuerza pública es hoy la garantía de la libertad y del orden republicano
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The poster's own slogan sets it apart from the many Civil War posters that simply rally troops: it argues that the state's armed forces once served local bosses, the *caciques*, and the Republic's enemies, but now guarantee liberty and republican order. The Subsecretaría de Propaganda, the Republican government's propaganda office, issued it between 1936 and 1939, when the government was trying to win public trust for security forces reorganized after the military uprising of July 1936. Its message reflects the Republic's effort to present a loyal, reformed police and military as protectors of ordinary citizens, not instruments of rural landowners.
| Created / published | [Spain] : Subsecretaría de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 99 x 66 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Spanish 1930-1940.Offset lithographs Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Carteles de la Republica, no. 357; Palette and the flame, p. 18. Promotional goal: Sp. J44. 1936. Forms part of: Spanish Civil War posters at the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Military personnel. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,815 × 4,711 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220931 |
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