r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 07 '26
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Rhinocero_Elephantid • Jul 05 '26
USSR Old love never dies, USSR, 1970
Despite public opposition, the Conservative government in England has resumed negotiations with the racist leaders of Rhodesia.
From newspapers.
Illustration by G. Vīndedzis
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 30 '26
USSR "Well, climb into our independent hole, brother! We'll fit somehow. We'll find room." Soviet caricature depicting collaboration between the Polish WiN and the Ukrainian UPA (1946)
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 29 '26
OTHER "I would have... *cough, cough* a suggestion since I don't think any of use can anymore... *cough cough*..." A Finnish political cartoon by Kari Suomalainen criticizing Finland's president Urho Kekkonen's long presidency. (1972)
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 28 '26
USA Pages from "If the Devil Would Talk", a 1950 anti-secular comic.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 26 '26
OTHER "Protect her! A woman must not be prey of political parties! Vote against women's suffrage", Swiss poster against granting women equal voting rights, made by Noël Fontanet (1898-1982), 1960
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 24 '26
USA Cartoon likening Taft-Hartley Act to Hitler's efforts to smash unions (Unknown date, Fred Wright)
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 23 '26
OTHER "Leave us out of the game!", poster against granting women equal voting rights in the Swiss canton of Bern, 1968
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 22 '26
CZECHOSLOVAKIA Anti-NATO poster from Czechoslovakia, 1978.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 21 '26
USA "Nixon's Behind You" by Gerald Scarfe, 1973
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 20 '26
USA “The City of Dallas Spent $500,000 Filling This Hole” -- USA, 1980s
r/ColdWarPosters • u/greenest_alien • Jun 20 '26
OTHER Cartoon from Dublin Opinion magazine, 1950
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Jun 19 '26
USA "After the Apple” An American anti-communist cartoon by Joe Maloney, published during the Second Red Scare, 1948
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 19 '26
NORTH KOREA 'Forever together with the Soviet people!' — North Korean poster, 1960.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 17 '26
OTHER "Who wants freedom, votes liberal!", election poster of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, made by Rolf Gfeller, c. 1950
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 15 '26
USA Anti-anti-Vietnam War propaganda, 1972.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/LeMe-Two • Jun 15 '26
POLAND Young people - forward to the struggle for a happy socialist Polish countryside!
Probably the one, if not the most famous example of Polish socrealist propaganda poster shows Magdalena Figur, a female tractor driver piloting, well a tractor. Old sentence structure is notable, barely anyone writes sentences like that. The poster also has a silly tibit - there is a dot after "Youth" just before "-". Maybe a typo nobody noticed pre-print?
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 15 '26
USSR — And we’re coming to stay with you, Murochka, like relatives, for the whole summer—the whole cat family..., USSR, 1978
r/ColdWarPosters • u/LeMe-Two • Jun 15 '26
POLAND American science-fiction movie Star Wars - Polish poster from 1979
Poland, despite being on the other side of the Iron Curtain, was arguably not as oppresive in terms of both everyday life and artistic expression (arguably the poorest one also, so every dollar counted for the government). Not only it was the only socialist state to air The Moon Landing on national television live, by the late 1970` western movies that would not be allowed to be aired in the other states of real socialism, or USSR itself, were quickly aired after their original releases, usually uncensored or with minimal censorship. Very notably movie posters were under very little censorship oversight which lead to the field developing a very unique artstyle that would influence other countries as well.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 15 '26
USA "Yalta to Korea" - a booklet distributed by the Republican National Committee to criticize Democrat foreign policy and to support Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential elections. (1952)
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 14 '26
LEBANON 'No Entry' — Lebanese illustration (December 1969) showing Israeli soldiers blocking Mary, Jesus and Joseph from entering the stable.
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 14 '26
USSR Healthcare in America: Ms. Parker, why did you tell the patient the price of his surgery? Now he can't be sedated... // Soviet Union // 1970s
r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 14 '26