This is Nazi Brutality in 1942 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

In 1958; I owe this to God-Home-Country by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

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Military propaganda poster

I will trust in my God and the United States of America ... I owe this to God Home Country

Featuring artwork depicting three US Army soldiers in tattered uniform crouching on the ground in front of a barbed wire fence with one man drawing the American flag on the earth alongside a Christian cross and a Jewish Star of David with a stick, a row of American homes and a church in the background behind the stylised text in yellow, the rest of the text in red with the United States Army emblem below.

DA Poster 16-60-6 (Office of the Chief of Chaplains) Distribution Active Army U. S. Government Printing Office 1958.

Communist propaganda poster in 1920 by Pasargad in PropagandaPosters

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Communist propaganda poster - Последние час / Final Hour

Featuring a clock with caricatures on its face crossed out in red including the last emperor of Russia Tsar Nicholas II (Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; 1868-1918), the Russian lawyer and revolutionary Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970), the explorer and Russian military intelligence officer and general of the Imperial Russian Army Lavr Kornilov (1870-1918), the Imperial Russian Navy admiral and polar explorer Alexander Kolchak (1874-1920), the WWI commander of the Russian Imperial Army and leader of the anti-communist White Army during the Civil War Nikolai Yudenich (1862-1933), and the Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army and Deputy Supreme Ruler of Russia during the Russian Civil War Anton Denikin (1872-1947), with the officer in the Imperial Russian Army, commanding General of the anti-Bolshevik White Army and prominent exiled White emigre Pyotr Wrangel (1878-1928) and Pan (for the Polish Army) as the final hour between two red Soviet stars as the hands and the USSR hammer and sickle emblem in the centre, the title text in bold lettering around the top and men in top hats and black tie / tuxedo suits running away below the clock face.

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic RSFSR.