Vintage Propaganda posters, Political cartoons, and Postcards

[General Emílio Médici]

Some stuff on my HD


WW2 In the pacific, showing off contact between locals and the US troops who were setting up the massive supply lines. In this case, Americans share a coke with a polynesian native and he in return is impressed with the ink on the soldier's chest. (Fun fact: such contacts are where Cargo Cults come from)

Donald Duck does his part (He would canonically fight in the Pacific and developed PTSD from jap ambushes)


The Meme


A american made little guide on how to quickly identify chemical agents before they start harming you

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Roughly translated:
You'll carry them too.
A person with a hereditary disease will cost an average of 50,000 Reichsmarks by the age of 60.

Trudeau rushing to adapt this for Canda by making the taxpayer gay and brown.

 

[The Grognard]

A propaganda poster from the 1950's meant to get people to consume more milk.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Soviets overtaking the British Empire after the stock market crash.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Soviets overtaking the British Empire after the stock market crash.
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Which is hilarious as GB and the wider empire was relatively unaffected by the great depression.

 

[Hamsteroid]

The best Christmas greetings

 

[Thiletonomics]

Here's an old Axis propaganda poster, which makes you wonder how WW2 would have changed had the powers actually fought in unison, instead of their own battles, while Italy was just there to be there:

 

[Hamsteroid]

 

[Romeo]

KdF-Wagen Advertisements (Nazi Germany)​

Strength through Joy (Kraft dur Freche; KdF) leisure movement promoting the KdF-Wagen to German middle-class families and couples for leisure driving. The KdF-Wagen is the first iteration of the Volkswagen Beetle. Funnily enough, the KdF-Wagen never was able to be serially-produced for the masses, and thus only government and military officials ever used them.

 

[Polock]

While not vintage, it definitely evokes the feelings of Cold War propaganda, maybe its just an Eastern Europe thing.

 

[Bruce LaLiLuLeLo]

Does anybody have an archive of Soviet Anti Zionist cartoons? I saw a few and they look very good but cant seem to find any archives of the stuff

 

[Hamsteroid]

Workers refusing orders from the French during the Occupation of the Ruhr 1923-1925

No! You will not force me! / No! You will not force us!

 

[GoGoNoJo]

This isn't a political cartoon per-se, but it is politics-adjacent; it's a 1966 cartoon from "Cavalier" magazine depicting world events from the time in the style of a medieval tapestry. I thought it was rather interesting given there's a meme based around the same concept.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

1867 Paraguayan wartime poster showing the "Empress of Brazil", depicted as a black woman, telling Brazilian soldiers to seduce Paraguayan men.​

 

[GoGoNoJo]

Not cartoons, but very much political; here are some Reagan jokes from pre-1980s MAD. I love going through old issues of MAD magazine - they're such fascinating time capsules of eras long since past. I find these two jokes in particular to be very interesting, because they show that Reagan had been a well known political figure long before his election in 1980 (both of these examples are from more than 10 years prior).
Issue 133, March 1970

Issue 131, December 1969

 

[GoGoNoJo]

 

[Polock]

Japanese view of the world, 1932



This kind of political cartoon map is one of my favorite types of historical illustrations.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Empire of Japan, Manchukuo, and the Reformed Government of the Republic of China

 

[Breadbassket]

A poster from the obscure Anti-Rent War.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Seems to be an interesting pre-Korean War propaganda poster celebrating friendship between the USSR and North Korea.

 

[Polock]