Map published in Time magazine (22 September, 1952) showing Kurdistan as a hammer and sickle.
The map was published as part of a report on growing communist influence in Kurdistan.
'All over Kurdistan today, Soviet propagandists are working like beavers to make the Kurds look to the Russians as the liberators who will come one day to unite them in freedom'.
'All over Kurdistan today, Soviet propagandists are working like beavers to make the Kurds look to the Russians as the liberators who will come one day to unite them in freedom'.
The map was designed by Robert M. Chapin, Time's in-house cartographer who produced many an anti-communist map during the Cold War. Thread here:
The article is worth a read tbh. Funny passages like this one describing Soviet agitators disguised as dervishes, wandering Kurdistan and spreading communism through song
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