Ad for Cinzano

Designed during the mid-1930s, this ad shows a figure comprised of multiple figures in a reference to fascism.  (Facism's other key symbol was the fasces or bundled shafts of wheat or sticks, borrow from the ancient Roman's iconography of power and strength which Mussolini invoked) The clear inference is that Cinzano is the people's drink and that Italian industries are backed by Mussolini's army.  The multitude of figures bundled like fasces inside the large figure create a pattern much like a chainlink fence, suggesting the state is comprised of anonymous individuals whose only identity lies within the state.