USA
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Karl Heinrich Marx (American cartoon, 1948)
Text: Karl Heinrich Marx – After 100 years, his boils go marching on. Year: 1948. Publisher: Time magazine. Artist: Ernest Hamlin Baker. Additional information: Shows a sinister Karl Marx next to a boiling cauldron, with a hammer and sickle forming in the smoke. Commissioned for the centenary of The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848.
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The Sleeping Sickness (American cartoon, 1911)
Text: The Sleeping Sickness. Year: 1911. Publisher: Puck magazine. Artist: Gordon Ross. Additional information: Shows European nations colonising Africa while a giant African man sleeps slumped against a tree.
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While people suffer from poverty and trouble, communist officials get high on pleasure (American leaflet, 1952)
Text: While people suffer from poverty and trouble, communist officials get high on pleasure. Year: 1952. Publisher: 1st Radio Broadcasting & Leaflet Group. Artist: NA. Additional information: Contrasts the apparently leisurely life of a communist official with the plight of a Korean family. Produced by the ‘1st Radio Broadcasting & Leaflet Group’ and dropped over…
