Highligts for Warspot: France in search of the enemy

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In the early 30s, there was still relatively calm in Europe, but each country had its own «chief of panic» — a political force that rang the bells and called for arming on the threshold of a future war. After the devastating First World War France had no desire to be in fight. However, In 1926 a right-wing association was created in the republic, calling the land for arming, first of all, against Germany and the Soviet Union. The Centre for propaganda of national-republicans («Centre de propagande des républicains nationaux» — CPRN) collaborated with many popular artists and illustrators, producing dozens of alarmist posters every year, aimed primarily against socialists and communists.

Below are some works made on order of the CPRN by the popular French artist Andre Galland, showing a defenseless France in the face of militant neighbors.

«And we want France disarm itself?» A poster made in 1932, which shows aggressive neighbors (and not just neighbors) targeting defenseless France, and their annual expenses for the defense. A strike is not expected only from Poland, while the biggest guns are, as usual, by Soviet Russia. At the same time, the expenses of France are prudently not indicated

«France, which has survived four invasions in 100 years, has no right to ignore the danger!». A poster of the same 1932, on which a solid black mass under the leadership of German cavalrymen is rushing from the east

Left is a 1927 poster: a communist spits on the grave of the Unknown Soldier near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Right is a certain evolution of views, a poster from 1936 with German bombers of an incomprehensible design over Paris: «This is what awaits us if the Communist front disarms France»