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Silence Propaganda has been using since the World War 2 until now. 'That is evident in autocratic regimes: in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, but also in present-day states like China, Iran, or North Korea, huge state efforts are made not only to propagate the ideological tenets of the regime, and not only to detect, censure, and repress dissidents, but also and especially to make sure that people keep silent about certain areas of private and public life' (Leone, M. 2017). To make sure the people keep silent during the World War 2, they made posters or even postcard for the soldiers to remind their nation about it. Most of the posters and postcards had used denotation and connotation in it. For example, this postcard  made by Italian Fascist which shows two men talking and a man reading newspaper at the back and also with a sentence 'Il nemico vi ascolta' which means 'the enemy listens to you'. The sentence would act as a denotation because it is the most s...

Semiotics is often used in political propaganda to attract the voters or either plant certain ideologies into people's minds.  Umberto Eco stated that 'semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as  a  sign’. It involved the study of things that we refer as 'signs' in our everyday life, their meanings and the way they are presented. We will take the propaganda during Leninism in Soviet Union as an example. Vladimir Lenin who was the Soviet Union politician said that ‘genuine art is one expressed so clearly, that it is perceivable for everybody. Its topic is something more sublime and important for the mass of workers rather than the idle minority’. That is why the messages conveyed through the visual arts during Leninism is easily comprehended by their nation, not just only the upper class, but to all citizens. This poster is created during the Leninism. The words on the posters are 'Long live Marxism-Leninism'. Their signs in their visua...