propagandopolis Profile Banner
Propagandopolis Profile
Propagandopolis

@propagandopolis

Followers
160K
Following
9K
Media
6K
Statuses
10K

Propaganda, political graphics, cartoons, war art and more. DM submissions. Prints available on the website:

Joined June 2018
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
6 hours
'Mosley will win!' — Stencil of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Undated, 1930s.
Tweet media one
12
32
264
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
23 hours
The painting is displayed in Pyongyang's Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
3
3
72
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
23 hours
North Korean painting (undated, ca. 2000s) showing troops overrunning a US position during the Korean War.
Tweet media one
14
124
1K
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
1 day
Text below quotes an August 1914 speech by Prime Minister H.H. Asquith: . 'The Belgians have won for themselves the immortal glory which belongs to a people who prefer freedom to ease, and security even to life itself. We are all proud of their alliance and of their friendship.
0
2
14
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
1 day
'Bravo Belgium!' — British postcard from the First World War, ca. 1915.
Tweet media one
4
38
459
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
There is also this well-known (unofficial) painting:
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
3 months
Soviet portrait of Marshal Georgy Zhukov, 1974.
Tweet media one
3
9
66
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
A couple more paintings by Yakovlev. None as dramatic as the Zhukov portrait. The first is a 1942 portrait of Ivan Panfilov, general and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. The second is a 1937 painting titled 'Miners write a letter to Comrade Stalin'.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
3
3
62
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
The portrait is by Vasily Yakovlev (shown in last picture here), a well-established Soviet artist who had produced portraits of Stalin, Vasilevsky and others prior to his Zhukov portrait. A few sources online suggest that the painting was judged 'ridiculous' and banned from
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
1
4
41
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
Soviet portrait of Marshal Zhukov, ca. 1946.
Tweet media one
30
286
3K
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
'Let's surround orphans with motherly kindness and love!' — Soviet poster, 1946. Artist: Nikolai Zhukov.
Tweet media one
8
53
530
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
Another from the delegation:
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
4 months
'New Zealand, Ally Down Under' — Poster published by the New Zealand Legation in Washington D.C. during the Second World War, ca. 1942.
Tweet media one
0
1
38
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
2 days
'New Zealand fights' — Poster published by the New Zealand Legation in Washington D.C. in 1942. Artist: A.T. Peel.
Tweet media one
6
37
361
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
3 days
Behrendt was a Dutch-German political cartoonist active throughout the Cold War. His work appeared in Dutch, Swiss and German publications. One here from the Swiss magazine 'Nebelspalter':
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
9 months
'10 years of NATO' — Swiss cartoon (May 1959) celebrating the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty. By Fritz Behrendt for Nebelspalter magazine.
Tweet media one
0
6
172
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
3 days
The cartoon shows the dictatorships of Europe falling while the Soviet Union stands firm, with Brezhnev depicted as a prison guard. Drawn by Fritz Behrendt for the 8 August 1974 issue of Algemeen Handelsblad newspaper.
1
6
173
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
3 days
'Renewal in Portugal, Freedom in Greece, Hope in Spain … No news from the Gulag Archipelago' — Dutch anti-Soviet cartoon, 1974.
Tweet media one
17
167
2K
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
5 days
The mission was part of the Interkosmos program, which facilitated joint missions with other communist and Soviet-aligned countries. A Soviet poster celebrating another Interkosmos mission, with Syria:
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
5 months
'Joint Soviet-Syrian spaceflight' — Soviet poster celebrating the 1987 Soyuz TM-3 mission, showing the Soviet and Syrian flags around Earth. Artist: P. Shegeryan.
Tweet media one
1
7
56
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
5 days
East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn flew with Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky on 26 August 1978 to the Salyut 6 space station (depicted in the poster), becoming the first German in space. The poster was published by the Publishing House for Agitation and Visual Media (Verlag für
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
1
5
53
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
5 days
East German poster (1978) celebrating the joint Soviet-German Soyuz 31 mission.
Tweet media one
11
288
2K
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
8 days
The cartoon was published in the 23 August 1917 issue of American Machinist magazine, illustrating an article titled 'Why Force Us To Speak a Foreign Language?'. The author condemns 'metric propagandists' and argues that the adoption of the metric system would constitute 'one of
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
3
8
139
@propagandopolis
Propagandopolis
8 days
'What has he done to deserve this?' — American cartoon (1917) showing Uncle Sam unhappily shackled to the metric system.
Tweet media one
47
278
2K