1939
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Equality of sacrifice? (Canadian cartoon, 1939)
Text: Equality of sacrifice? Year: 12 October 1939. Publisher: The Federationist. Artist: NA. Additional information: Cartoon shows a worker shouldering the immense ‘war costs’ while a capitalist runs off with the war profits’. The cartoon appeared in the The Federationist, a Vancouver-based newspaper published by the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the 1930s and…
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Resist together (Soviet poster, 1939)
Text: Resist together! The slogan of national war is passed from mouth to mouth: “The father will fall in battle, the son will take his place, the brother will replace the deceased brother, the wife will replace the murdered husband”. Year: 1939. Publisher: NA. Artist: Viktor Semenovich Ivanov. Additional Information: Poster shows a dying Chinese…
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Russia wants peace (British newspaper, 1939)
Text: Russia wants peace. Year: November 1939. Publisher:’Russia Today’ newspaper. Artist: NA. Additional information: The page shows an image of Polish peasants gifting apples to a Red Army soldier, with the text at the bottom reading: ‘On September 17 the Red Army crossed the Polish frontier to save the people from war … it was…
