/r/PropagandaPosters
A subreddit for propaganda collectors, enthusiasts, or anyone fascinated by propaganda as an insight into history, sociology, perspective, and manipulation.
Propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
A subreddit for propaganda collectors, enthusiasts, or anyone fascinated by propaganda as an insight into history, sociology, perspective, and manipulation.
Posters, paintings, leaflets, cartoons, videos, music, broadcasts, news articles, or any medium is welcome - be it recent or historical, subtle or blatant, artistic or amateur, horrific or hilarious.
Guidelines
1) Don't vote on whether you agree with the message of a post.
2) Don't post with the intent to spread propaganda you agree with or the intent to degrade propaganda you disagree with.
3) Civil conversation is okay; soapboxing, bigotry, partisan bickering, and personal attacks are not.
4) Titles must have a date and must be neutral. If in doubt, you can simply use the caption of the poster (eg. "I want you!", US, 1917).
5) No current events. To help us to be objective, posts cannot be from within the last two years. Please post contemporary work on /r/ModernPropaganda.
6) No reposts. You can only repost the same image after a year.
7) No memes or clickbait. Image macros are only allowed if released by an official agency and the source is provided.
For a complete rundown and explanation of the rules, refer to the wiki.
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/r/PropagandaPosters
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"Der Amerikanische Weihnachtsmann" / "The American Santa Claus" - A skeleton draped in the American flag hands ammunition to African and Indian soldiers firing at German soldiers. Features a poem by H. Vogel describing the grief of a mother after losing her son in the war. Germany, 1915.
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Death to capital — or death under the heel of capital!"(Russian SFSR) 1919
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"Who is the Winner?" - German comparison between land captured by the Central Powers vs. the Entente. Germany, 1917.
00:49 UTC
Irish and Palestinian Marxist Armed Groups Unity Poster In Londonderry/Derry (Northern Ireland)
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Mickey Mouse doing black face?1930s-1940s
22:50 UTC
Pro Palestinian painting (in Arabic) in Northern Ireland
The bottom left translates in Arabic as "Freedom" and the top translates as "Our Day Will Come".
The Irish language version below:
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"Action Party", "Republic", "Justice and Liberty" (an antifascist political movement), "A new fascism can rise again, don't abandon the fight!" - Italian civil war 1943 - 1945 and after
Political propaganda poster where the Action Party guards against the rise of a new fascism after the Italian civil war (1943-1945) inviting not to abandon the fight
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Firm and loyal stands the watch at the Rhine!" (Germany, 1915) H. Hoffman [2233x3405]
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Soviet natural gas: trade prevents wars // Soviet Union // 1980s
10:36 UTC
"Your Turn has come, o doctor" (Syria, 2011)
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10:14 UTC
Have some! Ukrainian bread… Ukrainian steel… and land! - Ukraine 1941
09:30 UTC
November 1936 poster by the Crusade of Romanianism, an Iron Guard splinter party often referred to as "Romania's Strasserists"
09:09 UTC
USSR Poster “Peace” (1957)
08:40 UTC
"Whoever opposes Chairman Mao, smash in his head" (1967)
Sorry if the translation isn't very good, my Chinese isn't that great
08:15 UTC
An Open Letter to the Unconquerable Norwegians, World War II by Joseph Auslander
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Demon Jefferson Davis warming his hands over a burning Charleston. Harper's Weekly, 1862
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I Haven't Talked Yet! 1944 Norman Rockwell
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"Boycott Nestlé for unethical promotion and sale of infant formula in the third world Genocide for profit" - USA, 1974.
02:01 UTC
What does this say?
I bought this in Kyrgyzstan around 15 years ago and have always loved it. I get the general idea, but specifically what does it mean?
01:54 UTC
“Protest of German Women Against the Colored Occupation on the Rhine." - Germany, 1920.
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We're trying to find the way toward the peaceful solution... 1970s Soviet-era caricature
01:27 UTC
1945 poster
23:51 UTC
Anti-Ottoman Turkish poster from 1938
Young Turkey - Why did your back bend like that?.. From old age?
Ottoman - No… from bowing before every force!..
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"Saving is building , for yourself and for your country" rijkspostspaarbank netherlands 1957
The rijkspostspaarbank, later simply named Postbank and gradually privatized, a precursor to ING, was founded in 1881 to facilitate banking through the postoffice as a public good. This is still very explicit in this 1957 advertisement for a savings account for children framing having a savings account from a young age as a patriotic duty.
20:47 UTC
Italian propaganda leaflet airdropped over Vienna in 1918
20:22 UTC
"Towards prosperity and democracy , on the compass of the social democratic worker party" provincial elections 1935 , SDAP, Netherlands
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"Brick by brick - together you can build a new Afghanistan" - Afghanistan, 2001.
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1879 French colonial poster "Africa explored and civilized"
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