World War Two
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Spanish postcard, ca. 1943
Text: Swear to me, Stalin of my soul, that you will not allow yourself to be “conquered” by anyone. / Don’t be stupid, Winston, and think about the honeymoon that awaits you. Year: ca. 1943. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Part of a comic series, the postcard shows Stalin and Churchill as lovers beneath…
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O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree… (Soviet Christmas leaflet, 1941)
Text: ‘O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree…’ Year: 1941. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: Soviet “Christmas card” from the Second World War depicting a dead German soldier lying beneath a Christmas tree on the Eastern Front. Dropped over German positions ahead of Christmas. Reverse text urges German soldiers to end the war and blames…
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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…
