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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Joaquín de Alba

“Vulcan’s” Forge (Spanish cartoon, 1951)

Text: “Vulcan’s” Forge. Year: 1951. Publisher: Publicaciones Españolas. Artist: Joaquín de Alba (Kin). Additional information: Anti-communist cartoon from 1951 showing Stalin as a blacksmith reshaping ‘Europe’ from a swastika into a hammer and sickle. Seems to have been published in an English-language book of cartoons titled ‘This Peace’ attacking the postwar order.

May 5, 2023

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1951, Cold War, Joaquín de Alba, Publicaciones Españolas, Spain