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'Safeguarding the college student' — American cartoon (ca. 1948) showing the soldier of 'Christian Home Training' protecting college students from the arrows of unbelief, communism, atheism, radicalism, modernism, humanism, evolution and doubt. The cartoon is by U.S. Abell and was published in the Christian magazine 'Moody Monthly', for which Abell worked for almost three decades.




Soviet cartoon (1972) showing an American general wringing coins out of his European allies before depositing them in the 'NATO' bin. The factory of 'U.S. military industry' meanwhile chugs away in the background.




'The NATO circus' — Soviet cartoon (1958) showing a NATO officer as a circus trainer forcing the British lion and French rooster to balance nuclear bombs.




Soviet cartoon condemning the alleged poisoning of western youth with 'tele-propaganda', violence and pornography. Drawn by Naum Lisogorsky for Krokodil magazine, 1978. Caption reads: "Hours of daily television propaganda of violence, cruelty and debauchery poisons the souls of Western youth and greatly contributes to the growth of crime in capitalist countries."


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'The sculptor of Germany' — German cartoon published in Kladderadatsch magazine in 1933 showing Hitler mixing genetic soup into German 'Aryan' super soldiers. Artist: Oskar Garvens.




'The Moloch of the plutocracies' — German cartoon (April 1940) showing Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill shovelling soldiers into Moloch's mouth. Published in Kladderadatsch magazine, illustration by Oskar Garvens.




'How that turned out...' — Soviet cartoon (1958) showing a captive Nazi officer gradually becoming a NATO officer. This was actually quite true, but fewer steps. Classic example here


Published in Krokodil magazine, 20 February 1958. The cartoon is by Herluf Bidstrup, a Danish communist cartoonist whose work regularly featured in Soviet publications.





Similar theme in this Romanian poster published the following year:
Romanian anti-NATO propaganda poster (1959) showing American hands placing a NATO label over a Nazi zombie's head: 'New label on old merchandise'. Text on the zombie's head reads 'Denazified'. Nazi ET tech had tablets back then too. Ironic considering Romania was an actual German ally with its own fascist movement, the Iron Guard.




Wartime propaganda intended to convince sceptical US audience that Britain presides over a commonwealth of trading nations, rather than an empire. Published around 1941.