Propagandopolis
Propaganda, political cartoons and more from around the world. DM submissions. Prints available on the website:
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Less beer, less baccy, less employment - and they call this the People’s Budget! — British poster published in 1909 by the Budget Protest League in opposition to the government’s p...
"Concrete expression of Britain’s admiration - a hospital for Stalingrad" — British poster from the Second World War (1943) issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Design b...
"Don’t make me laugh!" — American cartoon from the First World War (1918) published in the Washington Star newspaper ridiculing the German denunciation of the shotgun as inhumane....
"If you want to look like that, work out!" – Soviet poster, 1966, showing a man flexing in a mirror before a brawnier version of himself. https://t.co/AenKlE3yfb
"Meeting over Berlin" – British poster from the Second World War (1941) showing British and Soviet pilots shaking hands while dropping bombs over Berlin. https://t.co/J2qkTXO0HF
Workers! Citizens!” — Hungarian poster from 1912 showing a red fist rising from a vast crowd of workers who are leaving the factory and surrounding parliament. https://t.co/QZ9sm66...
Yankee beetles – a thread of posters and other bits of propaganda from the Eastern Bloc published during the so-called 'war against the potato beetle' https://t.co/scQEbyRxew
"Colonial powers" – German cartoon published in Simplicissimus magazine, 1904, comparing the conduct of European nations in Africa. https://t.co/xp2ydBKkQm
“Save Serbia our ally” — American poster from the First World War (1915) published during the Great Retreat, when some 400,000 Serbs retreated from a joint German, Bulgarian and Au...
New podcast out now on Peruvian propaganda. Available on Spotify, Apple, Google etc. Also made a video displaying all the posters we discuss: https://t.co/8MCxpwv5Zi https://t.co/x...
“Should we boycott the Olympics?” — Cover of a 1980 issue of Newsweek magazine showing a Soviet tank with the barrels forming the Olympic Rings. https://t.co/0fwO4AL6K5
Japanese propaganda matchboxes from the Second World War showing Japanese tanks, scissors, planes and bombs destroying the forces of the US, Britain and ROC. https://t.co/a2KjczFhv...