Why propaganda artists rarely critize their own country. A point I want to make.

I keep seeing comments like "our X vs their Y" or "it is wild that they said this while they were doing that thing" in here.

I want to point the fact that most propaganda were produced by artists, or got commisioned to artists by the goverment for spesific orders.

People point this too often, specially in propaganda posters from a country that did something similar to what poster critiques for

But it makes sense that a artist, who is literally just a civilian with a paintbrush, didnt knew what his country was doing at the time, specially if there were a censorship going on. Or worse, literally cant say anyting about it for his own safety.

You can say that "he isnt a real artist if he cant critize his own society" but how? Exactly HOW he supposed to do this? Imagine being a comic artist that lived during 3. Reich and you just made a poster that points the badness of hitler or critized nazism. Where will you publish it? Whic newspaper will accept to post your stuff? Without a media a artist is literally mouthless and thats why none of them "spoke against evil".

Thats actually the biggest problem with these subjects. Survivalship bias.

Artist and propagandas who critized their own system %100 existed. İt is just we dont see them as they never got a chance to publish their works, or their posters got collected and exterminated after it went against the goals of their country.

The newspaper who published anti hitler comic simply pulled said comics away from the market and erased them once he rise to power and started assaulting other publishers for not supporting nazi ideology. Hence the artist and his poster never became famous or his works survived today.

That and the artist cant critize hitler when he got commisioned by goverment to critize Stalin, thats literally not what his job is 😭