Europe
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Sukarno liberates the Indies (Dutch cartoon, 1945)
Text: Sukarno liberates the Indies. Year: 26 October 1945. Publisher: Metro. Artist: Marten Toonder. Additional information: The cartoon shows Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno clumsily attempting to free the bound Indonesia. Japanese soldiers meanwhile march in the background. The cartoon was published on the cover of ‘Metro’, a Dutch magazine founded during the Second World War,…
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Ireland, One Country, We Demand Freedom (Irish poster, ca. late 1960s)
Text: Ireland, One Country, We Demand Freedom. Year: Late 1960s or early 70s. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Poster reads ‘Ireland, One Country, We Demand Freedom’. Photographed during a demonstration in Manchester. The man behind him holds a sign reading ‘release all political prisoners’.
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Join us! (Serbian/Yugoslav poster, ca. 1999)
Text: Join us! Year: 1999 Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Anti-NATO poster published in Serbia (Yugoslavia) around the time of the NATO bombing campaign of 1999. The design shows a pile of skulls with the American flag at the top right, the image being borrowed from a famous 1871 painting by the Russian artist…
