The Propaganda Archive

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Kurdistan (American map, 1952)

Text: Kurdistan.

Year: 22 September, 1952.

Publisher: Time magazine.

Artist: Robert M. Chapin.

Additional Information: Shows Kurdistan as a hammer and sickle. Published as part of a report on growing communist influence in Kurdistan: ‘All over Kurdistan today, Soviet propagandists are working like beavers to make the Kurds look to the Russians as the liberators who will come one day to unite them in freedom’.