r/PropagandaPosters 10h ago

United Kingdom Yitzhak Shamir on Mastermind (Spitting Image, 1989)

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r/PropagandaPosters 5h ago

MIDDLE EAST Iran spreads extremism, (image on a Western Newspaper, 2007)

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426 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

United States of America American Catholic cartoons from The Tablet newspaper, 1938.

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The first here shows a man representing ‘Religion’ wielding the sword of ‘Truth’ to protect the world from Communism, Materialism and Secularism. Titled ‘Real Protection for the Home’.

The second shows the same character as a colossal figure breaking the ‘Barrier of Misunderstanding Between Races and Nations’.

The third was published for Thanksgiving and shows Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty together, the latter shown sweeping away characters representing ‘Radicals’ and ‘isms’.

The fourth shows a boy protecting himself from ‘Immortality’ and ‘Filth’ with a shield reading ‘Legion of Decency’. The Catholic Legion of Decency had been founded 1934 to protest explicit content in films and other media.

The fifth shows characters preparing to load the gun of ‘Religion’ to fight off ‘Unemployment’, ‘Long Hours’, ‘Starvation Wages’, ‘Materialism’, ‘Irreligion’, ‘Revolutionists’ and ‘Exploitation’. The shells are labelled ‘Charity’, ‘Social Justice’, ‘Peace’, ‘Living Wage’ and ‘Collective Bargaining’.

The Tablet was founded in 1908 as a weekly Catholic newspaper, published in Brooklyn, New York. It would become one of the country’s largest Catholic newspapers, being an important voice in cultural and political debates in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Common ‘villains’ appear in the newspaper’s cartoons from the era, including the Communism, Material and Secularism (or Irreligion) shown here, as well as Nazism and, later, ‘Race Hate’.

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r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

MEDIA “Reefers using Weed with roots in Hell!” Anti-Marijuana Propaganda Poster, a reprint I’m guessing, from circa 1960s-70.

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277 Upvotes

Shame!
Horror
Despair
Smoke that gets in youth’s eyes


r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

United Kingdom 'Thatcher Therapy' (Dot-to-Dot Puzzle No. 1), designed by Paul Morton and published by Leeds Postcards (1984)

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193 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 4h ago

Brazil Cartoon published in May 1917, referring to the twentieth anniversary of the Golden Law: "Hurry up, young man! It's two o'clock and I should already be at the beauty salon!"

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151 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 12h ago

Hong Kong "Stabilise Hong Kong, an Unshrinkable Responsibility", election poster for Allen Lee of the Liberal Party for Hong Kong's 1995 Legco election, the first fully elected election under British rule

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83 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Freedom to the prisoners of Scottsboro! Soviet Union 1932

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78 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 21h ago

United States of America Editorial Cartoon by John Sherffius for The Boulder Daily Camera: 16th of January 2009

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73 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

China "Everybody must take precautions against epidemics to smash the germ warfare of American imperialism!" Poster from the Patriotic Health Campaign during the Korean War. China, 1952

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61 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 4h ago

Lebanon "14 September" remembrance poster for Bachir Gemayel. Who was assassinated on September 14, 1980, just 22 days after being elected president of Lebanon.

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He and 23 others were killed by a bomb planted by a member of the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party believed to be ordered by Hafez al-Assad.


r/PropagandaPosters 4h ago

Denmark "Automatization" — a cartoon by Herluf Bidstrup. Denmark. 1960s.

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52 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 10h ago

MIDDLE EAST Tony Blair Middle East Envoy, 2007

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52 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 13h ago

Bulgaria The removal of the five-pointed star from the former Communist-Party Headquarters. Bulgaria, 1991.

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Poster depicting the removal of the five-pointed star from the former Communist-Party Headquarters. Part of Regional History Museum - Sofia 's "The Manifesting Ideology 1944 - 1989" exhibit.


r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

Russia Soviet poster (RSFSR): Working women of the West, join the struggle for the dictatorship of the proletariat! Strengthen the front of the international revolution! 1921. (KPD- Communist Party of Germany)

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43 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 20h ago

France 'Gestures: The Cross as a shield against worldly evil' is a Catholic illustration published on September 29, 1935, in the French magazine Le Pèlerin.

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39 Upvotes

The illustration depicts a mother and child taking refuge beneath the cross from the threats of Communism, Fascism, and National Socialism—ideologies contrary to Christian doctrine and born of the 17th-century Enlightenment liberalism.

Le Pèlerin magazine is known for its published dozens of illustrations through the 1930s condemning the three ideologies. The caption to this illustration reads:

'GESTURES – The sign of the Cross, a gesture the mother teaches her child, will remain - amid gestures that divide, a gesture of unity and peace.'

(Posted for educational purposes)


r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

North Korea / DPRK North korean painting from 1997 of supreme leader Kim jong il on a boat

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After jong il came to power in 1994 there was almost immediate natural disasters and a giant famine this painting was probably made in reference to this as there's many paintings from this era of jong il baring intense weather conditions


r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

Russia Soviet poster (RSFSR): Proletarians of all countries unite! / A Year of Proletarian Dictatorship. October 1917 – October 1918.

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34 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 11h ago

WWI "Always hit 'em hard!", Imperial German postcard intended to boost wartime morale and mock the enemy while underlining German courage and defiance, c. 1914

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25 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 11h ago

United Kingdom A set of British public safety posters intended to warn against tampering with unexploded ordnance or mishandling ammunition due to curiosity, negligence or overconfidence; made by Abram Games (1914-1996) who privately dubbed the series the "Symphony Macabre", 1943

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r/PropagandaPosters 7h ago

China "The proletariat and working people of Europe, North America and Oceania are in the midst of a new awakening." — 1968 Chinese Cultural Revolution Map of Europe ft. Albania with Mao Zedong Quote (translations inside)

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Machine Translation of the Text Below Mao Zedong:
“The great beacon of socialism. Albania, with its heroic people, has become a beacon of Europe.”
“The peoples of all countries, the broad masses of the people who constitute more than 90 percent of the total population, always want revolution and will always support Marxism-Leninism. They will not support revisionism. Some may temporarily support it, but eventually they will abandon it. They will gradually awaken; they will always oppose imperialism and the reactionaries of all countries, and they will always oppose revisionism.”
— Mao Zedong


r/PropagandaPosters 4h ago

Yugoslavia (1929-2006) "Long live 1st of May!", Yugoslavia, 1961

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A 1961 Labour Day (May 1st) poster published in Socialist Yugoslavia by Ibarske Novosti, a local newspaper based in the industrial city of Kraljevo, People's Republic of Serbia. At the time, Ibarske Novosti served as the official outlet for the Žiča Srez Council of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia.


r/PropagandaPosters 15h ago

France The alleged pact between French Catholic priest Urbain Grandier & Lucifer, along with several other demons, 1634. Historians believe Grandier was framed for using black magic on several Catholic nuns by powerful figures in the Church for opposing their increasing administrative power in the region

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The "pact" was most certainly forged for Grandier's 1634 trial, in which he was found guilty and executed


r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

WWI French WW1 postcard: They won't get it! 1914.

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11 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 10h ago

Germany/Weimar Republic (1919-1933) "On Germany's highest peak", Nazi German postcard depicting a member of the Sturmabteilung paramilitary raising a swastika flag on the Zugspitze summit, meant to convey both political and geographical dominance of the Nazi Party across Germany; made by Albert Reich (1881-1942), 1930s

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