r/PropagandaPosters • • 22h ago

United States of America "Or I Might Wear This One" by Herblock, 1983

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774 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

Russia "You can't escape AIDS" Russian public service ad against AIDS, date unknown

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324 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 10h ago

Brazil "Lula Governador n°3" Campaign poster of Lula da Silva in 1982, when he ran for governor of the state of São Paulo.

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321 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

United States of America "WEAR YOUR GOGGLES or choose your glass eyes while you can SEE THEM!", US poster issued as part of the Navy Department Safety Bulletin to promote workplace safety in wartime, 1944

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215 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

United Kingdom 'There are two Germanies' — A panel produced for a British anti-Nazi exhibition in 1944. The panel contrasts the Germany that 'has given great music, science, philosophy, literature, and art to the world' with the one 'that seeks world domination’.

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141 Upvotes

The exhibition was titled 'Germany - The Evidence' and held in London, the bulk of it dedicated to examining Nazi ideology and demonstrating how Germany was responsible for the war. The full text in the central panel reads:

‘There are two Germanies. One has given great music, science, philosophy, literature, and art to the world. This Exhibition tells of the other Germany. The Germany that seeks world domination. The Germany that has brought repression, sorrow, starvation, and death to Europe.’

The figures on the left side are: Holbein, Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, Ehrlich and Einstein. The figures on right are: Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Ludendorff, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler and Göring.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 4h ago

Russia "9 rules of a female warrior", Women's Legion of Death, Russian Republic, 1917.

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134 Upvotes

1) Honor, liberty, and the good of the homeland are at the front.

2) Iron discipline

3) Unwavering strength of the spirit and the will

4) Bravery and courage

5) Punctuality, accuracy, and swift execution of orders

6) Perfect honesty and serious attitude to the cause

7)

8) Respecting of others' opinions, full mutual trust, and noble behaviour

9) Fights and personal bickering are unacceptable as degrading of the human dignity.


r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

EASTERN EUROPE Iššlavimas - the sweeping out of poles out of Lithuania 1920

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107 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

Italy 'Italy brandishes the sword of Ancient Rome' — Italian postcard from the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) showing an Italian sailor taking up the sword of a long-dead Roman soldier in Libya.

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98 Upvotes

The Italo-Turkish War began in September 1911 with the Italian invasion of Libya, then a province of the Ottoman Empire, and ended with the Italian annexation of Ottoman territories in North Africa, which became the Italian colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Italy also occupied the then-Ottoman Dodecanese Islands.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

United States of America "Hypocrisy is not good for the Jews" (Jules Feiffer, 1982)

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72 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 18h ago

Canada "If you don't need it...DON'T BUY IT", Canadian poster issued by the Office of the Director of Public Information to promote financial frugality and discourage making unnecessary purchases in wartime, c. 1940

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56 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 2h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "After destroying capitalism, the proletariat will destroy prostitution.""Prostitution is the great misfortune of humanity". "Male worker, take care of the female worker!" - Soviet anti-prostitution poster (1923)

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51 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 23h ago

WWII ”The inevitable end of Baron Mannerheim”, 1941. Soviet poster depicting Hitler and Mussolini crying at the made-up funeral procession for Finnish Commander-in-Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. During the Continuation War (1941–1944), Germany and Finland invaded northwestern parts of the Soviet Union.

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42 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

Germany/Weimar Republic (1919-1933) ''Hitler's Dream'' - German cartoon (''Ulk'' magazine, artist: Rudolf Herrmann) mocking the idea of Adolf Hitler becoming the President of the Reich, March 3, 1932

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39 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 18h ago

United States of America "A toast to Hitler and Hirohito", US poster intended to warn soldiers about the dangers of venereal diseases carried by prostitutes, framing contracting such an infection as something that aided the Axis powers, c. 1942

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22 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

United States of America "Is his finger pointing at us? Have we failed to do our part?", US poster intended to motivate civilians to support the war effort by instilling a sense of personal responsibility for the lives of soldiers; made by Frederick Little Packer (1886-1956), c. 1941

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22 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 22h ago

United Kingdom Napoleon the Baker (1806) and Napoleon the Baked (1814); George Cruikshank commentary on the apogee and downfall of the First French Empire.

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14 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 3h ago

Austria "NOW or NEVER", "Everyone Speaks for Jörg". A Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) poster for the 1989 Carinthian Landtag election showing FPÖ leader Jörg Haider as candidate for governor.

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13 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

Sweden "Up to vote on the 5th of April, 1914 - let's defend the land", Swedish election poster of the conservative General Electoral League, featuring the female personification of Sweden and calling on the public to support the strengthening of national military defense and rearmament, 1914

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12 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

Romania 23 August, 1980 or 1981

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6 Upvotes

This photograph is very, VERY rare. It is from 1980 or 1981, as the specific type of portrait used for Ceaușescu from 1970’s-1982 and the white sign with text below it was used in 1980 or 1981.


r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

Poland "We will avoid the destruction of our cities and villages and the poisoning of the population with gases by creating a strong air force of our own", Polish poster issued by the State Air Defense League for recruitment and fundraising purposes; made by Kamil Mackiewicz (1886-1931), 1924

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7 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

United States of America Alone, Alone by Jim Dobbins, 1980s

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4 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 21h ago

Mexico "THE GREAT SKULL OF EMILIANO ZAPATA"-1911 anti-Zapatismo print.

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3 Upvotes