The Propaganda Archive

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

This archive is currently a work in progress. New content and features will be added over the coming months. If you would like to learn about or support the project, you can do so below:

African liberation

Colonialism has no place on the earth! (Soviet poster, 1961)

Text: Colonialism has no place on the earth! Terror, Hunger, Robbery, Slavery [words on footprints] Year: 1961. Publisher: NA. Artist: Nikolai Petrovich Smolyak. Additional Information: Flags depicted are those of Algeria, Ghana, Liberia, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Morocco, the United Arab Republic/Egypt, Somalia, South Africa.

July 3, 2023

Propagandopolis

Europe, Soviet Union

1961, African liberation, Anti-imperialism, Flags, Nikolai Petrovich Smolyak, USSR
The people of Africa will overpower the colonisers! (Soviet poster, 1960)

Text: The people of Africa will overpower the colonisers! Year: 1960. Publisher: State Publishing House. Artist: Kukryniksy. Additional Information: A slightly tweaked version of the design by Biafran cartoonist Chuks Anyanwu shows a Biafran man overpowering both the colonialist (here depicted with a hammer-and-sickle on his chest) and Nigeria. Published during the Biafra War, 1968.

July 2, 2023

Propagandopolis

Europe, Soviet Union

1960, African liberation, Anti-imperialism, Kukryniksy, USSR