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World War I’s propaganda contained frequent references to the art and history of the past periods, what gave an opportunity to settle the struggle into the narrative frames of the history of mankind. By using such methods like naming the enemies as barbarians or predicting the dawn of empires, the recipients of propaganda were inspired to think about Ancient times as a natural cultural background of some countries and nations. In the propaganda posters there are plenty of recognizable references to the Assyrian, G...