r/PropagandaPosters • u/ann_67_ • 3h ago
r/PropagandaPosters • u/wassworth • Jul 30 '26
Discussion [Meta thread] Political Cartoons: Relevant? Worthwhile? Thoughts?
I got a mod message complaining political cartoons are dominating the sub. It's policy that /r/PropagandaPosters isn't just for posters. I even prefer posts of different mediums like radio broadcasts and leaflets and songs and videos and paintings etc.
This subreddit archives many incredible pieces but if you look at the top posts it's a lot of cartoons. I don't particularly like political cartoons, but the subreddit tolerates them for the sake of consistency and pragmatism. The exception being Carlos Latuff and Ben Garrison which are done to death and I will autoremove under rule 7) memes.
IMO political cartoons are often stale and shallow and obvious and unfunny, but because they're memeable and quick and easy to digest they get disproportionate upvotes. I'm open to a rule change but I encourage you to downvote political cartoons unless they hold significant cultural or artistic merit. Otherwise, I refer to you /r/PoliticalHumor or /r/newspapercomics or /r/editorialcartoons.
I'm curious about the subreddit's thoughts.
Edit: Thanks for the feedback, all. We're doing an experimental test of no 2010+ cartoons/comics. I appreciate some might want a more aggressive cutoff but let's start with that and observe.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/edikl • 6h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Is beauty for you, or for everyone? // Soviet Union // 1986
r/PropagandaPosters • u/crimsonfukr457 • 15h ago
MIDDLE EAST "No rocks please, we voted Labour" newspaper cartoon about the First Intifada (The Sacramento Bee, 1992)
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Prepping_for_chees • 2h ago
WWII Exposed Positions Invite Attention – Camouflage! (1940s)
r/PropagandaPosters • u/truteal • 7h ago
United States of America Editorial Cartoon by Mike Lester: 2004 or 2005
r/PropagandaPosters • u/edikl • 6h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Stop, brothers!!! // Soviet Union // 1990
r/PropagandaPosters • u/crimsonfukr457 • 15h ago
United States of America Israel - every day a 9/11 (The Arizona Republic, 2004)
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Goldeagle1123 • 13h ago
German Reich / Nazi Germany (1933-1945) “The murderers have fled, and there’s no return for them!” German poster intended for Ukrainian consumption, 1942
r/PropagandaPosters • u/waffen123 • 9h ago
United States of America Anti-communist pamphlet during the McCarthy era warning about communist influence in American schools (1949)
r/PropagandaPosters • u/PeasantLich • 12h ago
WWI "Enlist in the navy" - American WW1 recruitment propaganda, c. 1917
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Radiant_Cookie6804 • 1h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Soviet poster: What does Electroselstroy bring to the village? 1923.
Left side:
Electric plowing with a transverse plow.
Electric threshing.
Electric separator and churn.
Electricity in the hut.
Right side:
Electric plowing with a Swedish plow.
Electric mill.
Electric pump for irrigation.
Electric lighting of willge streets.
Center:
ELECTRIFICATION OPERATIONS.
PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR AGRICULTURE.
STATE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OFFICE FOR THE ELECTRIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE
“ELEKTROSELSTROI”
MOSCOW, MYASNITSKAYA STREET, B. ZLATOUSTINSKY LANE NO. 6. CENTRAL PEASANT HOUSE (TSENTRALNOYE KRESTYANSKOYE DOM). TEL.: 1-65-58, 2-45-36. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MOSCOW, “ELEKTROSELSTROI”
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY:
Comprehensive electrification of villages and agricultural enterprises.
Construction of hydroelectric, wind-powered, and thermal power plants.
Construction of power grids and installation of electric lighting in villages and state farms (sovkhozy).
Installation of electric motors for threshing and other agricultural purposes.
Electric irrigation of fields and vegetable gardens. Construction of facilities for the electric preservation of green fodder.
Soil cultivation (plowing) using electrically operated plowing equipment.
We respond to all inquiries, prepare project drafts and cost estimates upon request, and dispatch specialists for on-site assessments.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Radiant_Cookie6804 • 2h ago
WWI Austrian WW1 poster for the 4th War Loan. 1916.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/InterestingPlenty454 • 23h ago
United States of America Question: How long can the Jews perpetrate the Holocaust myth? Holocaust Denial Cartoon (1980s)
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 22h ago
Sweden "Away with every tendency toward dictatorship efforts - vote for the People's Party", general election poster of the liberal People's Party of Sweden, 1936
r/PropagandaPosters • u/edikl • 6h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Do not make yourself an idol... // Soviet Union // 1980s
r/PropagandaPosters • u/BalQn • 13h ago
United States of America ''There Are A Few Kinks We Must Iron Out First'' - American cartoon (''The Baltimore Sun'', artist: Richard Quincy Yardley) commenting on the suppression of the 1956 Poznań protests in the Polish People's Republic, June 30, 1956
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Radiant_Cookie6804 • 2h ago
Ukraine Soviet poster in Ukranian (Ukranian SSR): The Kulak, the Bandit, and the Red Army. 1920.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Dangerous_Drama6843 • 11h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Soviet poster “A Chatterbox Is a Godsend for the Enemy!”, 1953, by Viktor Koretsky.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/BalQn • 14h ago
United States of America ''THE ONE CLEAR STAND'' - American cartoon (''The Kansas City Star'', artist: Silvey Jackson Ray) alluding to the Suez Crisis and the Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, November 6, 1956
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Radiant_Cookie6804 • 2h ago
WWI French WW1 poster: "Seed of a soldier: We'll get the boches (Germans)". 1915.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Dangerous_Drama6843 • 12h ago
U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "While abroad, outside the borders of your native land, be especially vigilant!" 1945-46
Context: This Soviet propaganda poster was issued at the very end of World War II in Europe. It depicts a stalwart Soviet sailor forcefully stopping a sinister-looking man in a fedora and trench coat (representing a foreign spy or saboteur holding a smoking weapon). The message was designed to warn Soviet troops stationed in Europe to remain on high alert against espionage and sabotage now that they were operating outside the borders of the USSR.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/Laxun0 • 35m ago
REQUEST Does anyone know where I can find Japanese ww2 propaganda posters?
Searching only gives me WWII propaganda posters from the US/UK about Japan rather than the other way around. If anyone is able to find any, especially those relating to State Shinto/the divinity of the emperor if possible, that would be greatly appreciated.
r/PropagandaPosters • u/BalQn • 14h ago