/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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Protect the harvests, it ensures victory! German wartime home front poster WW2
20:25 UTC
"Coming out" for Harrison, anti-Benjamin Harrison cartoon from 1888
19:24 UTC
1989. What is the source for this?
15:23 UTC
1912 Stockholm Olympics poster featuring Thor on his goat drawn chariot
14:04 UTC
«EITHER our reason will win, OR life will perish at once» Soviet poster against the nuclear war, 1987.
13:01 UTC
"Daddy, kill the German," USSR 1942
Author: Maria Nesterova.
09:10 UTC
Chinese-Soviet friendship comic, 1959, found in a Chinese magazine in Vietnam
09:00 UTC
Soviet Motherland // Soviet Union // 1980s
08:46 UTC
‘Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?’ Paper towel advertisement, United States, 1930’s
07:10 UTC
"Karabakh is Azerbaijan" - Poster featuring Ilham Aliyev. Baku, November 2020.
05:26 UTC
"Don't Be a Sucker" (1945) - PSA from WWII era US gov't
01:16 UTC
Music video on Iraqi tv Mocking ISIS, 2014
01:04 UTC
“The German Soldier is the Guarantor of Victory” Nazi poster in occupied Poland during WW2
WW2 German poster in occupied Poland showing a German soldier standing besides an American vulture, a British snake, and a Soviet wolf
01:01 UTC
"One day, we'll be free" (International Herald Tribune, 2015)
22:44 UTC
Cover of the "Charter of the Malagasy Socialist Revolution", a 1975 book by Didier Ratsiraka, who led Madagascar between 1975 and 1993 and 1997 and 2002.
22:14 UTC
Humanized Italy as a barrier on the Piave, watching the Allies’ forces beat the Central’s ones. On top left, the leaders and commanders of the nations allied with Italy. circa 1917
21:31 UTC
“REAGAN HOOD Rob from the poor give to the rich”1980 pinback
We have the same thing in England with out prime minister keir Starmer he took away the winter fuel allowance from the elderly and put up the bus fair all while he gets £13k in free stuff like glasses and tickets to Taylor swift for himself the guys simply evil.
14:29 UTC
'Keep quiet, the Duce is examining the new positions' — Italian anti-fascist postcard (ca. 1944) showing Mussolini looking at pornography while his mistress, Claretta, shushes an officer.
14:15 UTC
Indulgent Mothers leading to Drunkard's Grave, 1915
13:22 UTC
Have a good time (Swedish American Line), INGA-GRETA SOLBRECK-MÖLLER, 1952
https://cometosweden.se/en/product/have-a-good-time-poster-50-x-70-cm/
Before "this is advertising not propaganda!!!!" Ads are allowed.
12:54 UTC
1870s Thomas Nast cartoon about Boss Tweed's control of the ballot box. "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"
11:27 UTC
It's time for a Guinness, Germany 1936
11:02 UTC
"Qualitative population decline due to insufficient reproduction of the higher-value population." | "This is what will happen when inferiors have 4 children and those of higher quality have 2 children." - Germany, 1935.
06:33 UTC
German plaque from 1911 on the now outdated doctrine of "human races". Top left is Native American, to the right is an Australian aborigine, an enlarged European in the center, an African in the bottom left, and an Asian in the bottom right.
06:25 UTC
"The Downfall of the Dictators is Assured" - A British cruiser rams an Italian submarine. London, circa 1943.
05:59 UTC
"Retreat on all Fronts" - American psychological warfare leaflet dropped over Germany to show their imminent defeat. 1945.
03:15 UTC
1888 Election poster (Harrison vs. Cleveland)
03:07 UTC
Media other than posters are allowed and have always been allowed in this subreddit
People report posts for not being posters all the time. This text has basically been unchanged in the subreddit sidebar since it was created:
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.
Now it might seem like the subreddit name was an oversight, which it was, but I like to think that those of you who have submitted all the posts over the years, you've been the propaganda posters all along :)
But seriously stop reporting paintings and videos and shit.
Now please share your favorite non-poster propaganda in this thread!
02:30 UTC
This is a news article from 1892
01:27 UTC
"Kids, don't play WAR. Parents, if you want your kids to live, prepare the moral disarmement, get rid of military toys." France, circa 1920.
20:07 UTC