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Roma Roma Italia

title: EXTENSION OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE TEST OF THE FALSE ONE

subject date: 2010-04-23

state: Roma

caption: ANTI-COMMUNISM ''The Christian Democrats try to cover the shame of their corruption with lies and slander! Here is the proof of the fake'', ''The photographs of the Exhibition of the afterlife were taken near Rome!''. Near the entrance, a panel denouncing communist activists warns visitors of the systems used by the Christian Democrats to create the educational exhibition of anti-communist propaganda. The ''Exhibition of the Afterlife'', 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 beyond the Curtain), had been the target of controversy for the mystified images, in fact some Roman citizens had 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, unmasking nature as anything but ''tragically true and real'' and ''rigorously controlled'' of documents concerning the alleged oppressed peoples in Eastern European countries. 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 → Mostra dell'Aldilà), report by MONS published in ''Lavoro'', illustrated rotogravure newspaper of the CGIL, Rome, n. 21 of 24 May 1953.

category: HIS

city: Roma

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 45499

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Sessanta

licence: RM

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Guerra fredda

technique: Fotografia

id: 5871

file name: FSNgilardi_45499.jpg

keywords

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