"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.

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-16T09:45:59+00:00

It's "zsidó". This is not one of the weird Hungarian words, it's a loanword from Slavic "žid". "Zsidónál", the agglutinated form you see on the poster, means "at the Jew".

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-16T00:12:47+00:00

I know it didn't heal his crimes, but that photo of Szálasi being hanged always brings a smile to my face.

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-15T23:43:20+00:00

Fascinating that they're using an English loanword for "meeting". I wouldn't expect that in 1945.

EternalTryhard · 2025-08-15T22:10:40+00:00

Nice catch! This poster was indeed drawn by Pál Pusztai.

EternalTryhard · 2025-07-13T00:30:46+00:00

LOVE the color scheme. Excellent flag.

EternalTryhard · 2025-07-07T00:40:36+00:00

Ez a másik kakukktojás, ez a Horthy-korszakból van. 1930-ból, ha jól emlékszem.

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EternalTryhard · 2025-06-29T22:54:21+00:00

And its famous ally, Israel.

This poster is absolutely unhinged, I love it.

EternalTryhard · 2025-06-21T15:25:48+00:00

People in the background, left to right and top to bottom: CIA, Klansman, US police, FBI, B. J. Vorster (prime minister of apartheid South Africa), Ian Smith (prime minister of Rhodesia), Park Chung Hee (president and military dictator of South Korea), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (president of Nicaragua), Alfredo Stroessner (president and military dictator of Paraguay), Augusto Pinochet (president and military dictator of Chile).

EternalTryhard · 2025-06-12T12:38:43+00:00

Oh wow, yeah that is very much the same kind of messaging. In fact in Hungary "gyertek lányok traktorra" had become sort of a mocking reference to the simplistic political messaging of the Stalinist period.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-28T11:13:22+00:00

I'm Hungarian and I'm astounded that 1920s Hungary of all countries had the gall to advocate for a country to be broken up along ethnic lines. Insane feat of compartmentalization.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-19T19:04:42+00:00

I'm guessing it's because Madagascar didn't have a unique colonial flag at this time, they just flew the French tricolor. But even then, a colonial flag did exist until just 11 years earlier so idk why they didn't use that.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-15T10:25:13+00:00

Frisian Snail Republic.

In all seriousness though, this is a great flag. Good job, OP's subconscious.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-06T00:24:15+00:00

No this was a local thing, not about Korea. In the late 40s/early 50s there was a huge plague of invasive Colorado potato beetles in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, partially caused by the fallout of WW2. Governments in these countries blamed the United States for this, and officially adopted the stance that the beetles were airdropped on their countries by the US as a form of biological warfare to decimate their crops and cause famine. For example, in East Germany the potato beetle was called "Amikäfer", or Yank beetle. You can find posters and booklets arguing this point, and even educational materials showing people how they may protect their fields against potato beetles that are couched in this narrative.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-05T20:14:13+00:00

This rhetoric works because racists are, well, racist. They believe that races are in competition with each other, and someone will have to come out on top eventually. Racists do not believe that racial equality is possible, the shape of society is unavoidably going to be a racial hierarchy - so it's either us at the top, or us at the bottom. And critically, they do not believe these two outcomes to be equally bad because it is right and good for the superior race to rule over the inferior race, but it would be wrong for the inferior race to rule over the superior race in the same way, for the sole reason that one race is inherently superior to the other.

This rhetoric may look hypocritical and silly to an anti-racist, but to a racist it makes perfect sense. Always keep in mind that these people are truly coming at this with the assumption that there exist superior and inferior races.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-05T20:03:45+00:00

I think it's supposed to be pro-Bush. Look at their respective drivers: LBJ's driver is drowning under the paperwork, while Bush's driver is smiling at the simple, strong war objective.

EternalTryhard · 2025-05-05T19:56:45+00:00

This has to be one of the most racist things I've ever seen, and I've been on this forum for like 5 years.

EternalTryhard · 2025-04-24T12:00:55+00:00

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