Satirical propaganda by Italian illustrator Gino Boccasile (1901¡V1952) , showing caricatures of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt as gangsters holding pistols, a pirate flag with skull and crossbones, and dead people on the ground in a city of ruins. Poster issued by the Italian Social Republic (Italian: Repubblica Sociale Italiana, RSI), known as the National Republican State of Italy (Republic of Salo), a German puppet state which was created during the later part of World War II, that existed from the beginning of the German occupation of Italy in September 1943 until the surrender of German troops in Italy in May 1945.