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Italia

title: WHAT AN ITALIAN AND A SOVIET WORKER SPEND

subject date: 2005-06-21

caption: ANTICOMMUNISM Educational panel that compares the purchasing power of the salary of an Italian worker with that of one of the communist countries: naturally the presumed favorable condition of the Italian worker is ''documented''. The ''Exhibition of the Beyond'', organized by the ''Propaganda and Press Studies'' (Spes) office of the DC (an exhibition with an impressive title that referred to life in the countries behind the Curtain), had been the target of controversy due to the mystified images, in fact some Roman citizens recognized themselves in the photos of the alleged ''slaves of communism''. It had happened that, to illustrate the miserable conditions in socialist countries, photos taken in Rome had been abusively used, as if they had come from Eastern countries. At the end of a tour in northern and southern Italy, the exhibition landed in the capital, in Termini station, and here some Romans recognized themselves in the subjects on display. Conceived on the occasion of the elections linked to the so-called ''fraud law'', the event nevertheless contributed to raising awareness of the Cold War. Photograph by Ando Gilardi (1921 - 2012) #andogilardi from a large series created for ''Scandalo dell'al di qua'' (see from FSNgilardi_77968.jpg to FSNgilardi_77979.jpg and FSNgilardi_45516.jpg), report by MONS published on ''Lavoro '', illustrated rotogravure newspaper of the CGIL, Rome, n. 21 of 24 May 1953.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 45497

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Cinquanta

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Guerra fredda

technique: Fotografia

id: 5869

file name: FSNgilardi_45497.jpg

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