Description:
Poster for the printing and paper-industry exhibition held in 1948 December 3-8, in the Museum of Applied Arts.
The poster was made one year before the Socialist dictatorship had started, however, the design is very much a socialist realist style. It has the red star, the communist symbol on it, and the red drapery in the background is also very typical of the socialist era's visual works. The text says that the event was organized by the Printing House and Paper Industry Worker's Craft Union and for the occasion when the Professional Unions became one Industrial Association. This pehomena was one of the many premonitory signs of the upcoming socialist regime what organized numerous worker's associations and was keen on creating large craft unions for industries instead of preserving the independence of individual workers and small factories.
The poster is an interesting historic document of the period when a short democracy transformed into the autarchy of communism after being on the losing side in World War II.
