Soviet propaganda posters
2009.04.07 02:04
Any kind of propaganda should of course be taken with a grain of salt.
Here are some Cold-War-era propaganda posters by the Soviet Union against the U.S., which have been archived at EnglishRussia.com (the exact links with the complete collection of posters can be found here and here).
Despite their propaganda nature, some of the posters nevertheless depict a grain of truth, even until today, like the one shown here on the left:
A rich and developed (capitalist) country offering a meager meal (development aid? investments?) to a poor and underdeveloped country, under the guise of scraping out all of the latter’s natural resources (and possibly later forcing the poor country as well to open itself as a market for the developed country’s manufactured goods and services)…
The next poster is similarly reminiscent:
A rich country offering funds (again, in the form of development aid or investments, perhaps) to poorer countries… which turns out to be a debt trap for them…
The next poster gets even more blatant in pointing out the evils of capitalism: squeezing out every bit of toil and tears and blood for even more profits…
Here’s another poster which EnglishRussia.com explains as one depicting capitalists countries milking blood and oil from the Middle East region…
And the last two are self-explanatory I guess…
Remember the air-bombings during the Vietnam War… and Pinochet’s military coup d’etat against the democratically-elected Allende in Chile…
(And Chile wasn’t the only country, mind you, that became mere pawns of interests during the Cold War… *sigh*)
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