Propaganda Reveals A Nation’s Personality
The above picture is a 1931 Russian propaganda poster that reads We Smite the Lazy Workers and can still be found in a collection in the Russian State Library in Moscow. Westerners might laugh at the notion of hard-work being a snare to any political system, but Russians always saw life (including manual labor) as communal, not individual, even before communism. Archbishop Fulton Sheen warned hundreds of times that Russia's communism might come to the United States. But what many American Catholics may forget is that Sheen was a Russophile, a great lover of Russia. AB. Fulton Sheen frequently pointed out that Russia's ancient desire for community and Holy Russia's [...]
