r/PropagandaPosters • • 7h ago

United States of America "I wish I had eaten more wisely", poster issued as part of the US Army Conservation Program to be displayed in military mess halls, intended to promote mindful eating and minimize food waste among servicemen, 1943

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404 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 4h ago

China Heliostats drawing a hammer and sickle at Dunhuang Solar Power Plant, Gansu Provine, China, 2021.

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288 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

United States of America "Thank you, Canada." -- A full-page ad in The New York Times thanking Canada for its aid in freeing six American hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis. USA, 1980.

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264 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 9h ago

Russia "Escorting a cop. Yesterday he was a master, today he is an abject slave". Russian Republic, 1917.

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139 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 6h ago

Japan "The Cruelty of the British / To save Manchester, the British rulers shed the blood of Indians and in return gave them hunger and poverty", Imperial Japanese leaflet in Hindu and Bengali, referring to the deindustrialization of India to turn Indian soldiers and civilians against England, c. 1944

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135 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

United States of America Surviving childhood (Stahler, 1991)

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121 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 2h ago

United States of America 'An Awful Blot' — American cartoon (ca. 1914) showing Uncle Sam standing next to a map of the US blotted with 'Child Labor'.

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101 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 6h ago

Germany/Weimar Republic (1919-1933) "The civil constitution in every state should be republican", Weimar German federal election poster, quoting Immanuel Kant's essay "Perpetual Peace" and urging citizens to vote for the pro-democratic forces of the nascent republic, 1924

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57 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 23h ago

WWI French WW1 postcard with Alsatian woman: "Always French!" 1915.

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36 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

France "LEUR PATRIE" ("Their Homeland")-An antisemitic cartoon from the French newspaper La Libre Parole (The Free Word), (1893)

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30 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 23h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Soviet poster: "A party is invincible if it knows where to lead and is not afraid of difficulties." J. Stalin. / Let’s make this year the final year of difficulties. / There are no fortresses that the Bolsheviks cannot take. 1933.

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26 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "The path to our glory is immutable – Fascism will die! The enemy will fall! We were inspired by the great Lenin – the great Stalin leads us in battle!" By Pen Varlen (1942)

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19 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 10h ago

Switzerland USSR, Russische Ausstellung, Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich (El Lissitzky, 1929)

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19 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

United States of America U.S. Army training poster depicting Soviet CBR capabilities, 1966

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18 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 22h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) Soviet poster: Let’s vote for happiness, for the future of our children! 1960.

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16 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 6h ago

United States of America Mexico's Most Wanted (MacNelly, 1997)

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14 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 16h ago

United States of America The Spirit of '88 (Paul Conrad, 1988)

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15 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 7h ago

United States of America "Give us MORE...", a set of posters issued by the US Army to motivate armaments industry workers and boost wartime production, 1944

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12 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 15h ago

United Kingdom 1794 cartoon mocking Whigs who sympathized with the French Revolution. By Isaac Cruikshank.

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8 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 22h ago

WWI Russian WW1 poster: Subscribe to the 5 1/2% War Loan. The more money, the more shells! 1916.

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9 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 7h ago

Greece "Blackball EDA", Greek anti-communist poster urging citizens to vote against the left-wing United Democratic Left (EDA), framing both it and the outlawed Communist Party (KKE) as agents of the Soviet Union, 1950s

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7 Upvotes

The tentacles bear the names of various left-wing and/or Soviet-friendly organizations, such as (from left to right):

  • Committee for the Liberation of Glezos (named after the prominent left-wing WWII resistance figure Manolis Glezos, sentenced to death three times and frequently imprisoned post-war for his communist views)
  • Democratic Union (a short-lived centre-left coalition)
  • Fellow travelers (communist sympathizers)
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Democratic Trade Union Movement
  • Greco-Soviet Association
  • Peace Committee

r/PropagandaPosters • • 6h ago

Sweden "For defense and work - the Second Defense Loan", Swedish poster issued to raise funds for modernization and mobilization of the country's military during World War II, 1941

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4 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 2h ago

United States of America Advertisement in Lobo's Back #2 (1992)

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2 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 22h ago

WWI Austrian WW1 postcard: A Final Farewell to a Comrade" 1915.

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1 Upvotes