The Propaganda Archive

A project by Propagandopolis to create the internet’s largest archive of propaganda posters, postcards, pamphlets, stamps and other ephemera.

This archive is currently a work in progress. New content and features will be added over the coming months. If you would like to learn about or support the project, you can do so below:

Anti-communist poster (ca. 1980’s)

Text: ‘Khalq’ and ‘Parcham’, the two main factions of the ruling People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

Year: 1980s (undated).

Publisher: Internal Islamic Front of Afghanistan.

Artist: NA.

Additional information: The poster was one of many churned out by the ‘Internal Islamic Front of Afghanistan’, aiming to oppose the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It depicts a hammer-and-sickle-branded skull and crossbones, with the flags of the two main factions of the ruling People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, ‘Khalq’ and ‘Parcham’.