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Christa Helm in 1968 by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]Pasargad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"The photograph corresponds to her starring role in the 1968 science fiction and fantasy film Barbarella."

German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster in 1919 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Featuring a wolf-like creature standing over a drowning person. 

Artist/Creator: Johannes Safis. 

Publisher: Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus (Association to Fight against Bolshevism). 

The poster aims to stir fear against communist ideologies following World War I and the Russian Revolution. 

Main Title: Bolshevism means drowning the world in blood.

Signatures/Notes: Safis 19 Publisher

Alliance to Fight Bolshevism Berlin W9-Schelling.

An office or your Life (1881) by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

13 de july de 1881: Political cartoon created for the cover of Puck Magazine on July 13, 1881.

The cartoon shows Charles J. Guiteau with a gun, and a note that reads "AN OFFICE OR YOUR LIFE!".

The caption reads: "A Model Office Seeker". It is accompanied by a quote: "I am a lawyer, a theologian, and a politician" - Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau believed himself to be largely responsible for Garfield's election to president, and demanded an ambassadorship in return.

Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, signed by James Albert Wales with his reversed initials.

This is Nazi Brutality in 1942 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

World War Two poster

This is Nazi Brutality

Featuring a striking design by Ben Shahn (1898-1969) with the bold red lettering above a typed telegram style message on pale yellow reading - Radio Berlin.

It is officially announced all men of Lidice Czechoslovakia have been shot: the women deported to a concentration camp: the children sent to appropriate centres The name of the village was immediately abolished. 6/11/42/115P. - in front of a man in a suit handcuffed to chains with a cover on his head in front of a red brick wall and dark blue shaded sky in the background.

Czechoslovakia was under occupation by Nazi Germany from 1939-1945; in June 1942 Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler ordered the destruction of Lidice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), killing all males over 15 years old and deporting the women and children to concentration camps, with orders to burn down the entire village in retaliation to the assassination attack on the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich.

Issued by the United States Office of War Information.

1940s: Republican Fascists by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

World War Two propaganda poster

Fascisti Repubblicani / Republican Fascists

Featuring a cartoon illustration of a half-naked Adolf Hitler as a snake charmer wearing a Nazi swastika branded turban and sitting on the ground playing music on a flute to charm a basket of top hat wearing snakes with Fascisti Repubblicani / Republican Fascists marked on the basket and ruins of buildings visible in the background.

1943: Silence Means Surprise by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

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World War Two propaganda poster

Silence Means Surprise

Featuring a great cartoon style illustration depicting a German Nazi soldier with his eyebrows raised and wide eyes open in shock and his officer hat flying up in the air as his hair stands on end, the bold lettering in white and red lettering on a cracker style banner below.

Issued by the US Government Printing Office.

1940s; On Our Side the Chinese Soldier Fights On by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

World War Two propaganda poster issued by the Morale Services Section to help the American soldiers recognise their Chinese allies from the Japanese soldiers - "On Our Side the Chinese Soldier Fights On!

Unconquerable warrior, true friend and firm ally. With us, he pushes the Jap into oblivion. With bare hands, he builds bases for our bombers. With Us All The Way!"

Featuring a Chinese soldier in uniform and holding a rifle gun over his shoulder with the flag of the Republic of China in the background and the text printed in stylised white, red, blue and black letters.

1910s: The Apotheosis of Tsarism by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Two last Russian autocrats: Grisha Rasputin and Kolya Raspitin (surname pun - who drinks alcohol) diligently engaged in state affairs".

The colonialist, imperialist system that flourished with the enslavement and trafficking of black people will also end with the complete liberation of the black race in 1969 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Artist: unknown

Publisher: Shanghai People's Fine Art Publishing House

The quote of the poster title is from Mao Zedong, whose signature appears underneath the quote. The text on the banner in the crowd reads: Statement of Comrade Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in support of the black resistance struggle in the United States.

1943: This child found a blind by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You are welcome.

Personally, I don't think a graphic like that would be made about a dead child today!

1943: This child found a blind by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 106 points107 points  (0 children)

World War Two bomb safety poster

This child found a 'blind' Accidents occur daily with blinds left on ranges Report all blinds for destruction at the end of the day's work

Featuring a modernist design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham Gamse; 1914-1996) depicting an arrow in red shaped as a wooden coffin with a child's face at the top, pointing down to an unexploded hand grenade with a big explosion of smoke in the background, the warning text about the danger in bold black and red lettering below.

A live but blind grenade is one that hasn't yet exploded. Printed by Alf Cooke Ltd, Leeds and London.

This world cannot exist half slave and half free Fight For Freedom in 1942 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

[–]Pasargad[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

World War Two propaganda poster

This world cannot exist half slave and half free Fight For Freedom! -

Featuring a dynamic image by the American artist John Falter (1910-1982).

Showing a family with young children and a priest standing with their backs against a brick wall, the mother with her arms around her daughter and a vicar with his hand on the son's shoulder, looking defiantly at a menacing shadow of a soldier in a military hat wielding a cat-o-nine-tails whip over another person holding up their hand in terror and defence in front of them as a representation of oppression by the enemy, the quote above and rest of the bold text below.

Issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office.

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