







A question about what happened to certain political party items over time.
Tried asking over at r/History and r/AskHistorians, but I couldn't post my images. Aside from obvious stuff, like the destruction of most Nazi era German statues, flags and the like, or things like weapons, vehicles or uniforms, what happened with items that one wouldn't really think much about that were ubiquitous in certain regimes of the past(and some current)? Propaganda posters, party banners, parade items, those giant flags, public portraits, rally backdrops, etc. Even something unusual but significant, like the facade of the former Fascist Party HQ in Italy, or the old portraits of Marx and Lenin one would see hanging on the side of a building in North Korea, but they no longer display, or like the time Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union held a joint military parade in 1939, with floats and banners displaying the swastika AND the hammer and sickle, as in image no. 4. I watch a lot of documentaries about geopolitical history, and wonder what happened to some of the items you used to see all over the place. Whether it's Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, North Korea, socialist Albania and Romania, the time Britain had a Fascist Movement in the 30s(what happened to their flags and banners?), on and on - you get the idea. Is most of it just stored in a warehouse somewhere, destroyed, in a museum or in private hands? I know it's a case-by-case basis, as not every country is going to do the same thing, but it's just a curiosity I have.