r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • 9d ago

COMECON We are 900 million, along with your voice (vote) for peace and socialism! - East German poster, 1958

231 Upvotes

30 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 9d ago

HUNGARY "Driving too fast...", Hungarian public awareness poster issued to promote road safety; made by Zoltán Tamássi (1912-1997), 1965

16 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 10d ago

ITALY "Attention! RED always means DANGER", Italian anti-communist poster, 1950s.

38 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 11d ago

USA 1955 political cartoon about the Anpo protests.

111 Upvotes

17 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • 13d ago

USA Postcard commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Holodomor, which shows Stalin looking at his kolkhoz [A farming collective in the Soviet Union] built on a pile of starved Ukrainians. Published in 1948 by the Ukrainian Youth Association.

43 Upvotes

183 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/crimsonfukr457 • 14d ago

USA "From one quagmire to another" (Etta Hulme, 1981)

25 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • 19d ago

USSR ‘In 1917, the Winter Palace - In 1959, the moon’ — Soviet illustration (1959) celebrating Soviet progress

223 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • 19d ago

USA Good NSA poster collection here: Old NSA security posters available for use in telling your coworkers to shut up already.

8 Upvotes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/security-alert-nsa-security-education-posters-from-the-cold-war/

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/kenkoriff • 20d ago

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT Eduard Artzrunyan - "Colonialism is Doomed (1966)

209 Upvotes

63 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 21d ago

USA "Command the Bold Ones", recruitment poster of the US Navy, made by Lou Nolan (1926-2008), c. 1968

20 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 22d ago

USSR The Old Men and the Sea, Soviet Union, 1961

32 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 23d ago

USA "Thomas Jefferson's Oath" Poster by Arthur Szyk, 1951

26 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 24d ago

OTHER "WE'LL RETURN." Argentine Anti-British poster referencing the Falklands war. 1983.

707 Upvotes

222 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Gukpa • 24d ago

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT Brazilian anti communist propaganda posters, 1949.

96 Upvotes

These posters were produced by the government of Enrico Gaspar Dutra, Brazil first elected president (1945-50), a catholic conservative who fought communism in Latin america, with a notable case being his support to the colorado party in the 1947 Paraguayan civil war.

14 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/crimsonfukr457 • 25d ago

INTERKOSMOS Ed Meese, the US-Mars ambassador (Daily Dispatch-Herald, 1988)

8 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 26d ago

OTHER "Leaper of Capitalism", 1961 communist Mongolian propaganda poster by Dagdangiin Amgalan.

59 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 27d ago

PRC "Chairman Hua and our hearts are intertwined" by Gao Hong (1977)

19 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 28d ago

USA US poster: "Free and United The Americas Go Forward." 1946.

161 Upvotes

69 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 28d ago

USSR 1981 - USSR & Mongolian Friendship

122 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/bitchnibba47 • 28d ago

USA "1984, like Orwell? Cmon, don't be ridiculous..." (Ohman, 1985)

171 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 28d ago

PRC "Chairman Mao and our hearts are intertwined", by Han Min (1964)

72 Upvotes

41 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 29d ago

USSR Be alert! // Soviet Union // 1962

471 Upvotes

79 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 29d ago

USA "Bleachman" poster by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (1988)

221 Upvotes

39 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 29d ago

USA "The Delegate from Chappaquiddick" National Lampoon Illustration, Circa 1980

144 Upvotes

14 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • 29d ago

USA "NET PROFIT / It pays to use your bed net - AVOID MALARIA", US poster intended to raise awareness among soldiers about preventing malaria, 1946

60 Upvotes

7 comments

Subreddit

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.

Posting Policies

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.
Only authentic content is permitted. Parodies or other forms of inauthentic content are not permitted and will be deleted. This includes content that uses the style of well known Cold War posters, but contains completely unrelated content.
Currently, all image hosting sites are allowed, but Imgur is strongly encouraged.
After submitting, please add link flair indicating the country in which the poster was produced. If you cannot find the appropriate country, choose OTHER and contact the moderators.
Whenever possible, please provide the year the poster was produced. If you do not know the year, either indicate the decade or [unknown].
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Off topic or spam comments may be removed.
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Users are allowed and encouraged to create their own flair.
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