The Propaganda Archive

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

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You cannot break the Korean people! (Soviet poster, 1953)

Text: You cannot break the Korean people!

Year: 1953.

Publisher: NA.

Artist: Viktor Koretsky.

Additional Information: Shows a prisoner tied to a pole with a star carved into his shoulder. A plaque above him reads ‘Kojedo’ in reference to the Koje-do (or Geoje) POW camp, which was the site of a major prisoner uprising in 1952.