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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…
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It’s time to fight! (American cartoon, ca. 1950)
Text: It’s time to fight! Year: ca. 1950 Publisher: The Catholic Advance newspaper. Artist: Leo Canavan. Additional information: Shows a man labelled ‘Vigorous Catholic Action’ confronting the beast of ‘World Anti-God Forces’.
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Hungarian Freedom Fighter (American magazine, 1957)
Text: Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Year: 7 January 1957. Publisher: Time magazine. Artist: Boris Chaplin. Additional Information: Published in the wake of the Hungarian Uprising. The flag behind them, with the communist coat of arms cut out, was a widespread symbol of the uprising.
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