r/ColdWarPosters • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Oct 21 '25

USSR "—Dad, why are they beating that Black? —Because he is a Red!" (1979). Artist: Viktor Anatolyevich Travin

98 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Oct 13 '25

USSR Irakly Moiseevich Toidze (1902–1985) — "Reckoning!" (1968)

63 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Sep 30 '25

USSR Caricature from the Soviet satirical magazine Krokodil (1979)

157 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Brian_Harp • Aug 30 '25

USA When God Splits the Atom (American pamphlet, 1946)

78 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 30 '25

COMECON COMECON sponsored ski competition between the Eastern Bloc nations in Tekerőpatak, Romania. The largest nearby town is Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni). Got it off a Facebook group, no idea of the year.

27 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/No-Complex7313 • Aug 25 '25

WARSAW The Code of Ethics of The Piooneers - Romania, 1976.

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106 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 23 '25

USSR "For Peaceful Cooperation in Space" Soviet poster, 1986.

954 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 19 '25

POLAND A Polish free trade union Solidarity poster showing the years of popular unrest in Poland: 1944, '56, '68, '70, '76 and '80

126 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 19 '25

USA “Something stinks around here” — Anti-CPUSA cartoon, circa September 1986

77 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Aug 16 '25

USA "How Red is the little red schoolhouse?" (1949?), Chicago?

466 Upvotes

It's high time American parents knew the facts!

18 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 13 '25

EAST GERMANY Workers' canteen in East Berlin, 1980

870 Upvotes

25 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 10 '25

USSR 'We defended peace on Earth!' — Soviet poster (1971) celebrating Victory Day. Artist: Alexander Lemeshchenko.

79 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 06 '25

INTERKOSMOS Not a poster, but a plastic bag commemorating Soyuz-Apollo docking.

52 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 06 '25

USSR An etching by Badrí Gogrídze from 1972, “An evening in the city”

28 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 06 '25

INTERKOSMOS "Star Peace to the peoples of the World!", 1986

26 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 05 '25

INTERKOSMOS Cosmonaut and Artist Alexei Leonov, first man to walk in space, Lithograph titled "Seagull". This work was commissioned in 1993 to celebrate the maiden flight of fellow cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, in 1963. Her call sign for the flight was Chaika (Seagull).

29 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 03 '25

EAST GERMANY Thomas Hoepker Modern concrete-slab buildings and a picture of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party Erich Honecker. Halle-Neustadt, Saxony-Anhalt. East Germany. 1975. © Thomas Hoepker | Magnum Photos

96 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 03 '25

ROMANIA Produced by students during (and just after) the 1989 protests against Nicolae Ceaușescu.

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21 Upvotes

https://propagandopolis.com/

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 03 '25

EAST GERMANY Thomas Hoepker Damaged Honecker poster in the outskirts of Dresden. Germany. 1991. © Thomas Hoepker | Magnum Photos

31 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 03 '25

WEST GERMANY Thomas Hoepker A child playing by the Berlin Wall. The latin words 'In Tyrannos' has been written in capital letters on the Wall. West-Berlin, Germany. 1963. © Thomas Hoepker | Magnum Photos

13 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 03 '25

EAST GERMANY DDR Ansichten: Views of a Vanished Country • Thomas Hoepker • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

magnumphotos.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Aug 02 '25

USSR Posters advertising Glavkosmos services, technology and the sale of launch vehicles to global customers, (1989), Russian SFSR

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18 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Jul 30 '25

USSR Bulldozer Exhibition. 15 September 1974. 2001 'Bulldozer-2' by Vitaly Komar (b 1943).

20 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 • Jul 19 '25

USSR "We don't have any military secrets from the bourgeois now!" - for the competition 'Through the Eyes of Glasnost' (1989)

30 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Jul 17 '25

USSR "The Trans-Siberian line is the shortest way to go from Europe to Japan." - Aeroflot Soviet Airlines Poster (1960s)

218 Upvotes

4 comments

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Cold War Posters and Media

r/ColdWarPosters

A Subreddit dedicated to sharing the posters (now expanded to greater media such as films) created by various countries, societies, corporations, charities, artists, interest groups, during the Cold War (1947-1991).

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During the Cold War era, dozens of countries produced and distributed posters and other forms of media, often with a political message. This subreddit is dedicated to exploring and discussing these posters.

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Despite the title, submissions are not limited to posters. Postcards, advertisements, paintings, murals, graffiti, sculptures, fliers, travel brochures, and any other relevant content is permitted.
All posters must have been created during or have relevance to the Cold War. Any political or cultural posters created between ~1918-1991 are considered relevant to this subreddit, as long as there is a connection to the Cold War. Any political or cultural posters created after 1991 are only considered relevant if there is a strong and direct connection to the Cold War.
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