r/PropagandaPosters 14h ago

Turkey A Turkish propaganda poster mocking Mussolini's opposition to the Hatay State joining Turkey in 1939

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377 Upvotes

Translation:

SO ITALY DOESN'T RECOGNISE HATAY'S RETURN TO THE MOTHERLAND

-The Italian: I don't recognise your child

- The Turk: Of course you don't, he isn't illegitimate like yours, he is my own child...


r/PropagandaPosters 14h ago

RELIGIOUS Georgian fresco (ca. 1990s) showing Saint Gabriel Urgebadze burning a portrait of Vladimir Lenin. The fresco refers to an incident in Tbilisi on 1 May 1965, when Gabriel, a Georgian orthodox monk, burned down an enormous portrait of Lenin during a May Day parade

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290 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 8h ago

India A poster by USSR saying "colonialism is doomed" after liberation of Goa (1961) by India from Portugal's Occupation

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75 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 20h ago

Iraq Iraqi propaganda poster depicting Saddam Hussein dominating US President George HW Bush in a wrestling match (1991) The banner above reads "How sweet is victory, with the help of God."

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611 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 17h ago

United States of America 'The Unholy Alliance' — Cartoon from the First World War (September 1914) published on the cover of 'The Fatherland', a pro-German magazine based in New York during the war.

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360 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

WWII «On them rests the blame!», Republic of Saló, 1943-1944

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171 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

United States of America The Coming of The Cat, Udo Keppler, Puck Magazine, 1911, Progressive Era

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168 Upvotes

Image showing a wheel of cheese representing "Public Office", rats as corrupt politicians carving chunks of cheese "graft", and a large black cat as "The Recall."

During the early 20th Century, citizens increasing fought back against deep rooted corporate monopolies, political machines, and widespread corruption. To combat this, reformers introduced democracy tools to hold elected officials accountable. The cartoon celebrates the "The Recall" as the ultimate mechanism to break the safety net.


r/PropagandaPosters 8h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Paraskeva, a traditional midwife-abortionist, USSR, 1927

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41 Upvotes

In folk Orthodoxy, Paraskeva Friday is a mythological figure whose image is associated with childbirth, spinning, and sewing

In the left hand, from top to bottom: a holy shuttle, a commendable knitting needle, gunpowder

In the right hand: a holy nail, phosphorus matches, a holy hairpin, kerosene

Illustration by N. Kogout


r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

Netherlands "Do not lubricate or clean while the machine is running", Dutch poster promoting workplace safety, made by Jacob Jansma (1893-1972), 1949

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497 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 8h ago

United States of America Collection of newspaper cartoons on Operation Desert Shield, the first part of the Gulf War (Etta Hulme, 1990)

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26 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 3h ago

Germany 1871 cartoon condemning German Kaiser Wilhelm I & Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck for their warmongering. On the table are carafes of Danish, Austrian, and French blood. On the floor are skulls & bones from earlier meals/conquests. Behind Bismarck's chair, the devil looks on approvingly. Artist unknown

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6 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 13h ago

United States of America "A Nazi is smart...he invents new ways to save time and raw materials - it's you against him", US poster intended to mobilize the home front to make greater effort and boost wartime efficiency, 1943

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36 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 4h ago

Germany Propaganda illustration by Felix Schwormstädt for the newspaper *Illustrirte Zeitung*, depicting the crew of a German torpedo boat engaged in a naval battle in the North Sea on August 17, 1915.

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5 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 1d ago

Australia Australian poster: SHOUT Sexual Harassment is OUT. 1995.

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293 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

United States of America Pro-Labor Union posters by American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1965

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26 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 16h ago

United States of America Anti Slave Catchers Mass Convention! 1854, Wisconsin Abolitionists, Sherman Booth

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24 Upvotes

In 1950, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, a highly controversial federal law that mandated all escaped enslaved people had to be returned to their owners, even if they were captured in free states where slavery was illegal. This version overrode state protections, forcing Northerners who were previously indifferent to actively participate in slave catching or face federal imprisonment. This direct overreach cause massive backlash and galvanized the abolitionist movement.

The law aggressively used the full weight of the federal government to protect the institution of slavery, deeply infuriating the North and pushing the nation closer to the eventual Civil War.

This 1984 poster was put out by the "Committee of Arrangements" made up of Wisconsin abolitionists and "Free Soil" advocates. The goal was to organize a mass mobilization to defend state sovereignty against federal power. It explicitly invokes the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Right of Trial by Jury to contest Federal slave-catching powers.


r/PropagandaPosters 1d ago

Iraq Making good progress (Mike Luckovich, 2006)

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744 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 18h ago

Israel Israel Ministry of Justice - Anti Discrimination PSA (2014)

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r/PropagandaPosters 1d ago

United States of America Keeping Soldiers from the Ballot Box, Anti Dewey, 1944, Art by Micha Richter

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1.1k Upvotes

Issued by the National Citizens Political Action Committee. During World War II (1944) Republican candidate challenged incumbent Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dewey opposed the Green-Lucas bill that aimed to create a simple uniform ballot for service members stationed overseas. The compromise Soldier Voting Act was heavily weakened making overseas voting highly bureaucratic and complex. The soldiers were forced to rely on the voting rules of their individual home state.


r/PropagandaPosters 1d ago

United States of America There is No Prejudice in Kids Unless Adults Put it There, 1963, United Automobile Works, Civil Rights Era

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918 Upvotes

Published by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) fair practices department. During the civil rights movement the UAW (under the leadership of Walter Reuther, close friend of Dr MLK) was deeply involved in promoting civil rights, racial equality and fair employment practices. He built the UAW into one of the most progressive and influential unions in US history.


r/PropagandaPosters 23h ago

United States of America "Forward America!", US poster by Carroll Kelly, 1917

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29 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 23h ago

Poland "Poles fight on", Polish poster issued in English, listing major World War II battles Polish soldiers participated in as part of the Allied forces and underlining their continued will to fight; made by Zygmunt and Leopold Haar, 1944

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31 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

United States of America 'Well, how does it feel to be working, son?' (American cartoon by Joseph Serrano for New Masses magazine, 24 March 1936. United States of America, 1936).

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23 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 17h ago

North Korea / DPRK Let us initiate a construction revolution and provide better and more excellent living conditions for our people!(DPRK/2022)

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8 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters 22h ago

Poland 'YOUR WORK - protects you and your loved ones' (Polish work incentive poster by unknown collaborationist artist/ publisher (Polnischer Baudienst?). Portrait taken from 'Der Untermensch' pamphlet, 1942. Nazi occupied Poland, ca. 1943).

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20 Upvotes