He might have donned the jackboot for '95's plasticky sci-fi no-no Judge Dredd, and the mandibles of CGI Marxism for drab insectoid Commie allegory Antz, but Sylvester Stallone has always otherwise displayed a contempt for any hint of totalitarian repression of the individual that borders on the fanatical - be it from the Evil Empire of the Great Bear in clangorous fistic flagwaver Rocky IV or the strike breaking, cigar-chompin', labour racketeering Cleveland tycoons of F.I.S.T.
This sublime still from soccer-centred boy's-own WWII drivel Escape to Victory witnesses a supremely relaxed Sly cocking a snook at what appears to be a Hitler Youth recruitment poster churned out by Herr Goebbels' Nazi propaganda machine, and is just begging for a juicy caption...
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