“Truly miraculous is your power, sport!” Caption on grandma’s bottle: “Holy water”. Soviet anti-religion/pro-sport poster, 1984
French postcard published at the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) showing a samurai standing atop a mountain of slain Russian soldiers, with the rising sun in the background. Titled: ‘Triumph of the yellow’.
Anti-communist poster published in Malaya, 1952, showing Stalin blocking a schoolboy’s study with a red book titled ‘The Lies of the Communist Party’ (the boy’s book meanwhile is titled ‘The Truth’)
1200 Georgian coin featuring King (her actual title) Tamar’s monogram and the title “Queen of Queens” in Arabic.
“While revolutionaries as individuals can bre murdered you cannot kill ideas” Belfast, Northern Ireland, circa 2010.
German postcard on the defeat of British forces at Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, 1940
‘This is America.. …where public opinion is the basis of national policy’ (American work incentive poster by ‘Shahan’ (Ben Shahn)/ Farm Security Administration for Sheldon-Claire Co., Chicago. United States of America, 1942).
‘Don’t kill her daddy – with careless talk’ (American poster by Dorothy Hope Smith/ U.S. Government Printing Office for Office of War Information – OWI. United States of America, 1944).
A card in memory of Romas Kalantas who died by self-immolation in Kaunas on 14 May 1972 to protest against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. Published underground 1970s.
Anti-Soviet poster from the Soviet-Afghan War showing a man slicing up a hammer and sickle, with text at the top right reading: ‘God is great’. -1985
We taught you, we healed you, we gave you a house – And what, lazy parasite, have you done now for us? // USSR // 1960s
“The saviors” A mural from Venezuela depicting Jesus christ and imam mahdi with Christian and Shia political/military figures behind them, the writing says “the way of the Martyrs is the way of the prophets” 2020s.
Anti-communist leaflet published by the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Thailand, ca. 1960, contrasting school scenes from “Communist” and “Free” countries.
‘He who stands for nothing will fall for anything’ (American poster by Steph Sabo for AIGA Design for Democracy. United States of America, 2012).
‘Joe Dope thinks it funny to play “Lovely Lola. The Charmer” this way’ (American army safety poster by Will Eisner for U.S. Army Ordonance Department/ U.S. Government Printing Office. United States of America, 1943).
“The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas over Averroes” by Benozzo Gozzoli, showing Saint Thomas Aquinas between Aristotle and Plato with the philosopher Averroes on the ground. 1468-1484
1988 British National Front Strasserist article featuring Muammar al-Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini and Louis Farrakhan on its cover.
‘I too am a fascist!’ – German cartoon published in Kladderadatsch magazine (October 1933) showing Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss gesturing to portraits of Mussolini and Hitler.
Gold dinar struck during the Islamic conquest of Spain, with the declaration of faith (shahada) written in abbreviated Latin- INNDNDSNSDSLSNS (IN Nomine, Domini Non DeuS Nisi Deus SoLus Non deuS aliuS), 710 AD
“Circassians in Turkey spread immorality and prostitution. All Circassian daughters are prostitutes trying to poison the Turks” 2010s Grey Wolves meme slut-shaming famous Turkish women of Circassian descent.
“The three ideological positions: capitalist regime, communist regime and Argentine justicialist regime” (Peronist pamphlet, ca. 1950)
‘Long live the friendship between the Palestinian and Cuban peoples’ — Poster published by the Palestinian-Cuban Friendship Association, ca. 1990. Artist: Marc Rudin.
“The most happy return of the Emperor”, aureus struck after Septimius Severus’ victory in the Year of the Five Emperors, 197 AD
Do you know how your tanks act – Finnish leaflet targeted at soviet soldiers in Winter War, 1939 (See comment for translation)
“Parade of the victorious Soviet people whom defeated German Fascism” – One of the largest paintings in Russia, depicting the 1945 Moscow victory parade [Unveiled on 9 May 2020]
“The Pirate’s confessions”. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia article about John McCain captured as a POW in Vietnam (Novermber 1967) (translation below)
A recruitment poster for the Indian Armed Forces that says: “If you want to have Beautiful and Successful Daughters. JOIN INDIAN ARMY!” circa 2013–2014.
”Sudetenland is free!” – German postcard referencing the 1935 Saar status referendum, the Anschluss and the Munich Agreement, circa October 1938
”Here also lies German Land – Reich Colonial League” – German postcard advertising the Colonial Days of the Reich Colonial League in Dresden, Gau Saxony, circa July 1938
“Dead”, 1965 Brazilian satirical healine with the abbreviations of political parties disbanded when the Junta decide to adopt a two-party system.
”Where wood is chopped, splinters must fall” – anti-fascist cartoon published in ”Krokodil” magazine (artist: Yuliy Ganf), Soviet Union, 1944
”SENATOR BIDEN, DO YOU DENY YOU STOLE FROM OTHER’S SPEECHES?…” – American cartoon (”Chambersburg Public Opinion”) commenting on Joe Biden’s plagiarism scandal, September 29, 1987
‘Only a Dope would do this…’ (American work incentive poster by Frederick Little Packer/ Bressler Editorial Cartoons Inc., New York. United States of America, ca. 1944).
‘Keep Australia White’ – Australian poster (1917) published ahead of the conscription referendum, showing the sword of conscription piercing the heart of freedom while Chinese workers arrive from the north.
‘Canal Army soldier! The heat of your work will melt your prison term!’ 1932? USSR. Agitprop poster used to motivate GULAG prison laborers during the construction.
«Becoming a donor is probably your only chance to get inside her.» Advertisement of the Belgian organ donor foundation “Reborn to be alive”, 2008.
”MEBBEE THIS WILL ONLY MAKE THE DOG MAD” – Canadian cartoon (”Vancouver Daily World”) commenting on the French occupation of the Ruhr, January 19, 1923
”SQUEEZE PLAY” – American cartoon (artist: Karl Hubenthal) made after the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, August 1956
”THERE IT IS – »NEW EUROPE«” – Soviet cartoon (artist: Boris Efimov) depicting Vichy France, Benito Mussolini, Jozef Tiso, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Miklós Horthy and Ion Antonescu as Hitler’s dogs, July 1941
‘Stop US aid to the genocidal junta of El Salvador’ (American poster by ‘MoraZan’. United States of America, ca. 1985).
‘In God we trust – everything for the fatherland’ (Dutch poster by ‘Van Altena’ quoting the motto of the collaborationist National Youth Storm (Nationale Jeugdstorm – NJS). Nazi Occupied Netherlands, 1943).
‘Oh we shed out bloods for foreign lands, now, brothers it is time to stand for our native Ukraine’ 1917(?)
[“American Candelabra”] Artwork in German magazine Lustige Blätter showing President FDR holding a Jewish-Communist Menorah, 1942
“Both Can Kill”, New Zealand AIDS Foundation, poster highlighting the harm of HIV/AIDS discrimination, 1990.
“Nobody loves me”. An American cartoon showing people fleeing from Francisco Franco and his pet skunk. (1945)
‘United Nations – For all children a safe tomorrow – IF you do your part’ (American poster by unknown artist for United Nations, Department of Public Information. United States of America, ca. 1945).
‘To the Top of the World – The true story of the first medical missionary to Tibet’ (American comic book by David C. Cook Publishing Co. Sunday Pix, 13 June 1954. Traditionally sold or given away to Sunday School pupils. United States of America, 1954).
1932 Der Stalhelm propaganda truck promoting the presidential candidacy of Theodor Duesterberg, who was later outed as having Jewish ancestry and suffered a mental breakdown due to being antisemitic at the same time.