/r/PropagandaPosters

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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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Early 1940s French poster about the first national congress of the collaborationist Milice.

2 Comments
2024/09/16
12:08 UTC

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Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry, California, 1942

45 Comments
2024/09/16
10:11 UTC

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Forever Together. Polish-Soviet friendship poster. 1980, Poland

12 Comments
2024/09/16
07:54 UTC

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"Inscription on Battle of Liberty Place Monument" // New Orleans, Louisiana, United States // 1932 // ? // Inscription celebrating the attempted overthrow of Reconstruction government of Louisiana by the White League

20 Comments
2024/09/15
20:39 UTC

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"Look before you buy. Boycott the products of apartheid." British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BDS, 1978)

21 Comments
2024/09/15
16:44 UTC

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Mongolian painting (1967) celebrating friendship with the USSR. Artist: Ürjingiin Yadamsüren.

71 Comments
2024/09/15
15:44 UTC

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Christmas Card leaflet, Korean War (1951)

2 Comments
2024/09/15
15:43 UTC

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«The solemn meeting of N. Khrushchev and D. Eisenhower in Washington.» USSR, 1959.

65 years ago, Khrushchev was the very first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

10 Comments
2024/09/15
13:00 UTC

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1892 artwork in Le Petit Journal depicting the Dahomey Amazons (recently featured in the movie "The Woman King")

15 Comments
2024/09/15
12:47 UTC

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Yes, I am a Russian invader. // Russia // 2015

594 Comments
2024/09/15
12:27 UTC

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Anti-British Indian pre-independence poster by Indian Independence League, 1942

Indian Independence League was founded by revolutionary Rasbihari Bose.

15 Comments
2024/09/15
10:05 UTC

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AIDS protest poster for Benetton Colors Magazine. The edition featured a fake "obituary" of former President Ronald Reagan and a picture with his face retouched as if he was diagnosed with AIDS. 1994 [821 x 1200]

43 Comments
2024/09/15
05:34 UTC

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"21 October 1969 A Bloodless Revolution. 1st Announcement SRC Act on Behalf of the People." Poster announcing the foundation of the Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1991)

3 Comments
2024/09/15
01:10 UTC

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"Peace on the Oder and Neisse helps secure the peace in Europe", DDR, 1952

14 Comments
2024/09/15
00:52 UTC

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Propaganda Poster of the German National Socialists criticizing the french’s 1928 national team.

https://preview.redd.it/ccv4p1r9stod1.png?width=941&format=png&auto=webp&s=6710a2504f2145ea301488fde115694fd985776b

The Poster encompasses the German caption:

„Auch ein Triumph

(Im Marathonlauf der olympischen Spiele in Amsterdam errang der Neger El Ouafi den Sieg für die französischen Farben.)

Ouafi, quasi ein Symbol des heutigen Frankreich!“

Which roughly translates to:

„What a Triumph!

(In the marathon discipline during the olympic games in Amsterdam the negroe El Ouafi gained the win for the French Flag.)

Ouafi, pretty much a Symbol of today’s France!“

The Propaganda Poster hereby uses the example of the marathon runner Boughera El Ouafi of Algerian ancestry who represented Frances team during the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. It shows himself winning the discipline, with a man of characteristics seen back then as typical jewish, (Nose, wealthy, expensive clothes, big body) tapping him on his back with seemingly more enthusiasm than Oafi himself, despite his newfound success and fame being primarily only that of Oafis.

It encompasses the National Socialists notion of a very well connected World-organized Jewry, trying to conquer the whole world through many means, one of which was primarily using their wealth and interconnected communities to uplift ethnic and non-european man in status and wealth while simutaniously trying to undermine the status and pride of men of European ancestry, with the ultimate goal of a „mixing, Outbreeding and ultimate abolition of the „white“, „aryan“ or European race. -Which were according to their worldview one of the last obstacles that would give Opposition to this World Jewry concerning historic differences and disputes alongside abolitions which European people led towards Jews during Centuries. 

It also features a baby wagon of the inscriptions of „RF“, presumely standing for the „République France“ showing that according to the National Socialists view, the whole of Frances Republic was in such a state and process of being conquered by this World-Jewry, and a darker skinned baby, showing that therefore the plan of uplifiting non Frenchs immigants status and fame in the French republic in order to replace native French people was working.

2 Comments
2024/09/14
19:26 UTC

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"A people following its king on the path to the pride and greatness of Iran" Imperial State of Iran, 1950s.

142 Comments
2024/09/14
17:26 UTC

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"The motherland meets the hero". The painting depicts the moment of Yuri Gagarin's arrival in Moscow after the first human spaceflight in history, USSR, 1961

52 Comments
2024/09/14
17:01 UTC

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A Japanese propaganda lithograph rallying for occupation of the Russian Far East during the Japanese intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. 1919.

10 Comments
2024/09/14
15:49 UTC

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"We will die for Rhodesia", 1970s Rhodesian poster featuring military women.

899 Comments
2024/09/14
12:42 UTC

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"Xiang Xiuli" - poster by Qiu Ruimin, 1992 [Heroic Chinese Worker]

2 Comments
2024/09/14
10:24 UTC

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"Chairman Mao leads us Forward" - 1968 poster

29 Comments
2024/09/14
10:14 UTC

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"We Shall Liberate Taiwan!" - 1969 PLA poster

55 Comments
2024/09/14
10:07 UTC

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Ethiopians salute a poster of Mussolini, 1936.

31 Comments
2024/09/14
09:10 UTC

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"The Continuation Of The War Only Means Death To You" (North Korean leaflet for US troops in Korea, based of a piece of WWII Soviet Propaganda) (Ca. 1951)

11 Comments
2024/09/14
02:30 UTC

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GERMAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLET WITH A CARTOON SHOWING A DEVICE CALLED 'F.D.R.'S MONEY MAKING MACHINE.' DROPPED ON FIFTH ARMY TROOPS BY GERMANS IN ITALY, CIRCA 1944.

2 Comments
2024/09/14
02:29 UTC

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"For 1971-1975 we shall reach an annual crop average of no less than 195 million tons!", 1971

26 Comments
2024/09/14
01:31 UTC

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