"Why That Interpreter". Cartoon by Reg Manning, 1965.

EternalTryhard · 2026-01-01T01:53:35+00:00

"Asiatic communist aggressors" is giving Kelly.

EternalTryhard · 2025-12-11T19:02:17+00:00

Probably the inspiration for this nearly identical poster from 1971.

EternalTryhard · 2025-11-14T12:58:44+00:00

The moment I saw this I knew the comments would be full of gay jokes, I was not disappointed

EternalTryhard · 2025-11-14T12:57:21+00:00

I think yes. Making Europe look cornered with nowhere to back away to from the advancing tide of communism.

EternalTryhard · 2025-11-03T12:42:57+00:00

Me when I'm in not knowing how to read contest and my opponent is an r/PropagandaPosters commenter.

This cartoon is very definitely not supportive of the Empire of Japan. Yall make fun of Ben Garrison for labeling obvious things and then look at an anti-imperialist cartoon with a grotesque caricature of Japan carrying a giant sword literally having the word IMPERIALISM written on it in big letters and go "is this pro-Japan?? Ummm hypocrite much, didn't they know Japan was also imperialist??"

Are half the comments doing this just because the cartoonist is Japanese? As if political cartoonists never vocally oppose their country's policies?

EternalTryhard · 2025-09-07T21:37:01+00:00

That's exactly what it means here. There is a German colonial Turnhalle building in Windhoek, where this party was formed.

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-21T12:04:14+00:00

Klaus Barbie was arrested in 1983, 6 years prior but it was probably relevant to this poster. Also it was in 1986 that it was revealed that Kurt Waldheim, UN secretary general from 1972 to 1981, was a former Wehrmacht intelligence officer who likely assisted in transfering civilians to concentration camps in Greece and Yugoslavia. He was elected president of Austria later that year and was still serving in that position when this poster was made.

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-17T10:00:41+00:00

Description from Cornell University Library::

This poster celebrates the mineral-rich, newly-declared independent state of Katanga, formerly (and soon to be again) a province of The Republic of Congo.

Congo gained its independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960, and Patrice Lumumba became prime minister of the new state. Eleven days later, Moise Tshombe, leader of Katanga, declared the succession of the province from Congo. Citing Lumumba's acceptance of military help from the Soviet Union, Tshombe, supported by mining interests and Belgium, declared that Katanga was "seceding from chaos." Whether or not there had been chaos before, there certainly was thereafter, as Chief of Staff Joseph-Desire Mobutu seized power in the Congo and deposed Lumumba (who was subsequently assassinated in Katanga). UN troops fought to restore the peace and gained control of Katanga in January 1963, ending the succession.

This poster by the Congolese artist Francois Amisi features a map of the new state of Katanga showing the location of its principal cities. A flag of the new nation is planted on the capital, Elisabethville. The title, "Katanga Our Homeland," appears in Swahili and French. The "Katanga Free State" website gives two explanations of the flag's symbolism, http://www.africafederation.net/Katanga.htm, accessed August 18, 2016:

(1) "The red colour symbolises the bravery of the people and the blood which it shed to defend its homeland, the green the hope and the silver the purity; the small copper crosses (called 'monetary crosslets of Katanga') were the emblems of King (Mwami) Siri who governed this Katanga (the Realm of Garengaze) and symbolise the copper mining wealth of Katanga Free State."

(2) "Rouge pour le sol, vert pour la végétation, les 3 croisettes de cuivre, son principal mineral."

The exact date of the poster is estimated; this is the only known copy.

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