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“Vote down EDA” — Greek anti-communist poster from the 1958 legislative election showing the Soviet octopus stretching its tentacles across Greece. Its eyes are labelled “KKE”, for...
“Forward! Every able Paulista is a soldier” — Brazilian poster from the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, when the state of São Paulo rose against the government of Getúlio Var...
“9 May 1945” — Czech postcard celebrating the Red Army's arrival in Prague on 9 May, 1945. In the illustration, a Red Army soldier stands on a torn Nazi flag while offering his han...
“The hand of God destroys communism” — Propaganda leaflet from the Dhofar War in Oman (1963-1976) showing a great fist branded with the Sultan’s sword and dagger emblem smashing th...
“MFA, sentinel of the people” — Portuguese poster (1974) showing a soldier sitting atop a massive ‘MFA’, guarding a family below. https://t.co/bZ0iX5WxeR
I recently spoke with @rolandebrown about his book Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda for the first ever Propagandopolis Podcast! You can find it on Spotify, Soundc...
Soviet illustrations of Romanian leader Ion Antonescu and Finnish leader Carl Gusaf Mannerheim published at the end of the Second World War. https://t.co/wgALoi6J1g
Anti-communist leaflet published by the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Thailand, ca. 1960, contrasting school scenes from "Communist" and "Free" countries. https://t.co...
"President Wilson said at the Treaty of Sevres - These lands belong to Armenia" – Poster published in Lebanon, undated but possibly around the early 1930s. https://t.co/SExTCzjDPy
“The cat that wanted to be alone” — British cartoon published in a December 1945 issue of Punch magazine showing the shadows of the British lion, American eagle and Russian bear lo...
“Oppose censorship” — Irish Republican poster published in An Phoblacht ('The Republic', Sinn Féin's official weekly newspaper) during the British government's broadcasting ban. ht...
“Hail, oh hail liberty” — Greek illustration from the Second World War published in Rizospastis, the official newspaper of the Greek Communist Party (KKE). https://t.co/ByxJTss4kv