Everybody get to work to destroy the Four Pests

人人动手消灭四害
Renren dongshou xiaomie sihai
You Longgu - Everybody get to work to destroy the Four Pests
1960, March
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
77x53 cm.
BG E16/358

A poster for the campaign to 'Kill the Four Pests', directed against flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows (in 1960 replaced by bugs after the sparrows had been largely exterminated with disastrous ecological results). These are unhygienic, or eat food that is meant for human consumption. People are mobilized to kill as many as possible.

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