Youth may be wasted on the young, but under the totalitarian state they saw naivety and enthusiasm of youth as a particular opportunity. For the state to prosper, youth was treated as a sub-brand of the greater regime that both followed and perpetuated its ideology. Graphic design, typography, officially sanctioned styles and fashions, symbolism and signs played a huge role in transforming children and teenagers into functioning fascists, indoctrinated in stages according to their age and level of cognitive development. Young people were given daily doses of visual, written, and verbal propaganda. The goal for the youth was to graduate […]