Propagandopolisさんのイラストまとめ

“Swiss, don’t let yourself be ousted!” — Swiss anti-communist poster from ca. 1928 showing a caricature of an Asiatic communist elbowing his way past a man wearing a Swiss cross.

“The twilight of a united, free Armenia” — Armenian postcard published ca. 1919/20, around the time of the ‘twilight’ of the First Armenian Republic.

Italy's invasion faltered and Greece was able to gain the upper hand by the end of the year. Cartoons and postcards mercilessly mocked Mussolini's foolhardiness, painting Greece as the David to the Italian Goliath.

In the illustration, a soldier of the British Indian Army turns his bayonet on his British comrade while the forces of the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army) advance. The soldier isn't very flatteringly portrayed.

“Let's deal the enemy a blow with Bolshevik harvesting!” — Soviet poster from the Second World War (1941) showing a woman raising a sheaf of wheat over her head, the grains falling off as bombs.

The painting depicts a 1914 battle between German and British naval forces, during which the British sank four German ships with over 2,000 German men killed. The image was quickly coopted for propaganda purposes and widely reproduced, especially on postcards.

“John Bull, the protector of the oppressed” — 🇩🇪 German anti-British postcard (1915) showing the colossal John Bull sitting atop the nations of the British Empire, clutching Ireland in his left hand. To the right you can see the battered Russian bear and French rooster. ⁣

It was the occupying Germans who first discovered the graves in 1943. They quickly weaponised the massacre into a continent-wide propaganda campaign, particularly in the occupied territories and client states where anti-Soviet sentiment was often already quite widespread.

“Liberate Taiwan and complete unification” – 🇨🇳 Chinese New Year picture (nianhua) from ca. 1950 showing a Chinese soldier leading the army over to Taiwan. On Taiwan you can see a bloodied Chiang Kai-shek cowering while his American accomplice flees.⁣⁣

“Honor the Brave” — 🇺🇸 US poster from 1917 showing veterans of different generations marching in a Memorial Day parade.