1952
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European Commonwealth (Soviet poster, 1952)
Text: European Commonwealth. Year: 1952. Publisher: NA. Artist: I. Semenov. Additional Information: Mocks the relations of the US and the nations of Western Europe. The papers on the table are labelled ‘Atlantic Treaty’, ‘Treaty on the European Defence Community’, ‘Management of Mutual Security’ and ‘General Agreement’. Uncle Sam’s syringes read ‘Typhus’, ‘Cholera’, ‘Glanders’ and ‘Plague’.…
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American poster, 1952
Text: [Description below] Year: 1952. Publisher: Advertising Council. Artist: Otto Soglow. Additional Information: In the poster, management and labor work together for high income, shorter hours, choice of jobs, more food, better housing, luxuries, better schooling and free elections, ultimately defeating communism with a ‘better way of life’ round fired from the ‘U.S.’ cannon. Small…
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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…
