French anti-Franco postcard (1946) showing a blood-soaked Nazi skeleton casting its shadow over France from Spain.

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'Careful, honey, he's anti-choice' — Pro-choice poster, 1981, USA

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Catholic cartoon showing the graves of Stalin, Hitler, Bismarck, Attila and Nero all engraved with the words 'I will destroy the Church'. USA, March 1953.

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'Sure! I'm for the New Deal - I.M.A. SIMP' – Anti-Roosevelt pin, 1940, USA

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'They Can't Lick Our Dick' — American button produced for Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns in the 1960s and 70s.

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'I will reveal myself to him' — Russian poster from the First World War (1914) showing Christ appearing before a dying Russian soldier.

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'Sold in South Africa, bought by MI5, supplied to UFF/UDA death squads' — Mural, Belfast, 1992

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'The bombing begins in five minutes' — Reagan as Satan at an anti-war demonstration in Washington DC, April 1985.

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American cartoon (1961) depicting Trotsky's assassination. Published in the anti-communist comic book 'This Godless Communism'

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Iranian illustration (1960) satirising the 'unveiling' of Iranian women. Published on the cover of Tofigh, a famous satirical magazine.

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German cartoon from the Second World War (ca. 1943) showing an Englishman enjoying his garden unaware of the Soviet train speeding towards him.

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'Germany in 1950’ — British anti-German postcard from the First World War (1918) warning of the dangers of German expansionism.

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'Sukarno liberates the Indies' — Dutch cartoon (26 October 1945) showing Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno clumsily attempting to free Indonesia. Artist: Marten Toonder.

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'New Britain' — Map published in the US during the First World War (Feb 1916) imagining a United States conquered by Britain and Japan.

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'Remember ... This Unknown Communist has a SOUL' — American prayer card (ca. 1950) urging worshippers to pray for the souls of communists

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Temperance postcard, 1915, USA

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Iraqi medal from 1987 showing Saddam Hussein alongside the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II.

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'Terrorism stops here' — Rhodesian recruitment poster, 1977.

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'The next European war will start in the Ukraine' — Map published in Look magazine, March 14, 1939, USA

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Iraqi painting (1999) showing Saddam Hussein as an ancient Mesopotamian king on a lion hunt.

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'I'm happy to be breathing the same air as you!' — Soviet environmentalist poster (undated, 1980s) showing a couple sitting on a bench wearing gas masks amid clouds of industrial pollution.

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'Spring clean' — German illustration (2 April 1933) showing a woman clearing socialists out of her home while wearing a Nazi bandana.

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'Try to negotiate with THAT!' — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.

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Anti-Soviet painting on a Finnish gunboat, 1942, Finland

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German propaganda leaflet from the Second World War (1940) targeting French soldiers, showing a British soldier leaving his French ally to leap into 'the bloodbath' alone.

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Bulgarian poster from the Second World War (1944) showing Hitler retreating to his 'Berlin' lair after being impaled with the British, American, Soviet and Bulgarian flags. Artist: Stoyan Venev.

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'Colonizability of Africa' — British map (1899) showing Africa shaded according to its suitability for European colonisation.

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'Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier!' — Soviet poster, 1967. Artist: Klimentiy Vladimirov.

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'The Last Enemies' — Armenian illustration (12 August 1906) showing an Armenian and Azerbaijani aiming at each other across a pile of skulls.

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'Go to it, Africa!' — American communist cartoon (December 1924) showing the personified Africa beating up 'World Imperialism' while India, China, Russia and the World Proletariat cheer from the side. Cartoonist: Robert Minor.

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'The First Sting' — CIA-commissioned painting (2008) showing Mujahideen using stingers.

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'Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow' — Canadian book published in 1979 protesting official bilingualism.

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Libyan poster pictured in Tripoli (2000) showing Gaddafi as the leader of Africa, with the text reading 'Africa for the Africans'.

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'The Victory of the Red Army over Fascism' — Iranian painting, 1945, showing Stalin as a Persian archer firing the 'Red Army' arrow at Hitler's heart

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American illustration (1933) showing the two paths a boy can take in life, one leading to ruin and the other to health and success.

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'The Blacksmith of German Unity' — German print showing Bismarck as a blacksmith handing a sword to Germania, with Bismarck's dog Tyras sat between them (ca. 1880s)

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'It doesn't add up' — Catholic cartoon (April 1953)

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'Women, socialising and liquor often makes secrets leak' — Anti-gossip poster, Thailand, 1960s. Issued by the Armed Forces Security Center

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'Grandmother said sternly: go nowhere without God! The bright light of science has shown that God does not exist!' — Anti-religious poster, USSR, 1965

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Cartoon published in The Black Panther newspaper, 7 June 1969, commenting on the progression of the civil rights movement.

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'Normal people don't need drugs' — British anti-drug poster (ca. 1965) published by the Central Council for Health Education.

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'Don't raise them as lords!' USSR, 1956

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Discipline, an eternal Hellenic virtue — Greek poster, ca. 1936, promoting the National Youth Organisation (EON)

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Who assassinates the third world leaders?” — Anti-US poster, Cuba, 1980s

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'Stop Russian bestiality' — Anti-Soviet poster published in the US in 1984 showing the Soviet bear eating Ukraine.

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Billboard displayed outside a factory in Havana, Cuba, showing Fidel Castro with the words 'Socialism or Death'. Photographed around 2008 by Enrique de la Osa for Reuters.

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'Stars of Azerbaijan' — Soviet poster (ca. 1972) showing Azerbaijani workers walking along a boardwalk wearing their Hero of Socialist Labour medals.

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Soviet anti-Ukrainian cartoon, March 1945. Published in Radians'ka Ukraina newspaper.

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'Do You Believe in Evolution Or The Bible?' — Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, USA, 1953

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Beware! Do not try opioids. If addicted to opioids, your future will be destroyed — Anti-opium poster from Laos, published around 2003

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American cartoon showing the figures of China, India and Africa towering over the figures of US, French and British imperialism. A Soviet soldier also grins behind. USA, 1925.

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Anti-Soviet cartoon showing Stalin as a caveman being struck by the hammer-and-sickle boomerang he's just fruitlessly flung at the West. West Germany, 1951.

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German propaganda leaflet targeting black soldiers in the French Army, 1940

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'God punish England! May he punish it!' — German anti-British postcard from the First World War (ca. 1914) showing Britain wiped off the map.

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'And they found that they understood one another' — Austrian leaflet (undated, 1930s) showing a Social Democrat, Nazi and Communist walking merrily together

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American cartoon (24 August, 1939) published shortly after the German-Soviet Pact. Drawn by Jerry Doyle for the Philadelphia Record, with the caption: 'Forward Marx!'

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Belgian poster, 1945, featuring de Gaulle, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill and Roosevelt.

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'The Liberator of Korea' — Painting of Kim Jong Un trampling over the American and South Korean flags with the Arch of Reunification visible behind, 2013.

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Pro-Anschluss postcard, Austria, 1921. Illustration by Alfred Pirkhert.

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'No Japan' — American cartoon (1945) showing a Japanese soldier standing defiantly with a sign reading 'No Surrender!' while a skull-faced atom bomb flies towards him.

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'Russia Will Be Converted' — American book (1956) prophesying the imminent collapse of communism and the conversion of Russia to Catholicism.

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American anti-Nazi postcard (1934) showing Hitler trying to intimidate Einstein. Artist: Michael Califano.

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'Malvinas Are Argentina's' — British pamphlet published by the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1982. Author: Mike Freeman.

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'A Voice from the Past' — Puck magazine illustration (1905) showing Louis XVI's ghost warning Tsar Nicholas II to heed the pleas of his subjects lest he too should suffer 'La Guillotine'. February 8, 1905.

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Just when you thought it was safe to register for the draft again! ... Vietnam II – US cartoon, early 1980s

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'The Deserter' — American anti-war illustration (July 1916) showing Christ facing a firing squad composed of soldiers of the belligerent nations of the First World War. Artist: Boardman Robinson.

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Soviet painting (1969) showing a guard holding Lenin following the failed assassination attempt of 30 August 1918. Artist: Viktor Karpovich Kovalenko.

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Abortion will deprive you of happiness — Soviet poster, 1966. Designed by V. Stepanov.

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'The Russian Crown' — Puck magazine cover (27 December 1905) showing the Tsar's crown in the shape of a skull with blood dripping behind. Artist: Carl Hassmann.

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'Victory to the IRA' — A British soldier photographed next to an IRA mural in Belfast, 1984.

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'England's Vietnam' — Irish Republican record released in 1977 showing Ireland holding a Kalashnikov.

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Spanish pamphlet produced by the Popular Front (ca. February 1936) contrasting the paths of 'Left' and 'Right', the former leading to joy and peace, the latter to death and misery. Full translation in comments.

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'Two Ways of Spelling It' — American Catholic anti-communist cartoon (April 1950) showing the devil spelling 'Hell' with a hammer and sickle. Drawn by Leo Canavan for the 14 April 1950 edition of The Catholic Advance newspaper

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'The rich rule the country freely, they shoot anyone who interferes' — Soviet poster (1971) showing an assassin perched on the Statue of Liberty with a gallery of his victims behind, featuring Lincoln, John and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Artist: Boris Georgievich Rezanov.

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Soviet cartoon (February 1983) showing a man sleeping rough in the city, covering himself with issues of the New York Times and Washington Post reporting on weapons buildups.

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From Vietnam to Palestine, the same enemy: American Imperialism — French leaflet (ca. 1967) showing Israeli military leader and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan with American soldiers in Vietnam

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'Stalin over Wisconsin' — American cartoon (23 September, 1946). Artist: Frank Marasco.

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Fascist Italian postcard from the Second World War (1941) showing Mussolini at a ship's helm during a storm.

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“Make way for corn!” — Soviet poster published during Khrushchev's corn crusade, 1955

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'If you interfere with us we will call in Big Brother!' — American illustration (1962) showing Fidel Castro taunting Uncle Sam from a heavily-militarised Cuba.

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Stop communist imperialism! — Poster published by the National Front, France, ca. 1972

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Stalin and Mao offering peace to the US, Britain and France in Diego Rivera's 1952 mural 'Nightmare of War, Dream of Peace'

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Europe from Moscow - Map published in Time, 1952

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'Two sides of the same coin' — Soviet anti-Pinochet poster, 1977. Artist: Evgeny Kazhdan.

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Austrian anti-Nazi cartoon (ca. 1933-36) showing a Stormtrooper calling for 'Gagging of the press' in Germany and 'Press freedom!' in Austria during the Anschluss campaign.

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French illustration (1906) from the anarchist/socialist magazine 'L'Assiette au Beurre' showing the dead kings of Europe dining together. Artist: Gabriele Galantara.

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Italian postcard (1941) showing death guiding a parachutist, with a line from Gabriele D'Annunzio’s poem La canzone del Quarnaro: ‘...and death at my side’

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Soviet illustration (1948) showing Churchill handing the Sword of Stalingrad to Stalin at the Tehran Conference. Artist: Konstantin Finogenov.

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'Oppose the American Empire's arming of Japan' - Chinese poster, 1951.

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Segregation / Separation - Christian anti-segregation illustration, c. 1960s

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'May Allah punish England!' — German stamp issued during the First World War (ca. 1915) celebrating the country's alliance with the Ottoman Empire.

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'Fascism shall perish' — British poster from the Second World War (ca. 1943)

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'Democracy must occasionally be bathed in blood' — West German anti-Pinochet poster published shortly after the 1973 coup.

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Mexican poster from the Second World War (1942) showing a Soviet horseman riding over Nazis at Stalingrad. Artist: Leopoldo Mendez.

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'I hate Catholics, I hate Protestants, I hate Jesus, I hate everybody' — Cartoon published in The Catholic Times (January 1953) showing Stalin writing his last will and testament.

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'If you eat too much, you rob the fatherland' — Italian poster from the Second World War (1941) urging citizens to curb their eating habits to save food for troops.

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'The Great Socialist' — American illustration (1906) showing Christ leading workers through a dark industrial landscape. Artist: William Balfour-Ker, drawn for the novel 'The Silent War' by John Ames Mitchell.

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'Lenin loved children' — Chinese poster (1982) showing Lenin greeting children during New Year's celebrations

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'Metamorphosis' — Yugoslav-Macedonian cartoon from 1957 showing a Nazi officer captured during the Second World War becoming a NATO officer. Text below reads: 'Once in 1944 ... and now in 1957'. Artist: Zivko Kozar.

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'Combat Racism Year' — Stamp issued in Qatar, 1971

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'Hands off Ulster!' — Ulster loyalist illustration from the Troubles (1987) showing the hands of the 'communist' IRA reaching up to Ulster.

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'In the Soviets' country' — French illustration (9 March 1930) showing Bolsheviks looting and destroying a church, with the small text below reading: 'By order of the government, religious buildings are systematically destroyed'. Published in Le Petit Journal.

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'Life is struggle and peace only an accident' — Francoist slogan in the outskirts of Madrid, 1948. The man is British MP Francis Noel-Baker, then visiting Spain unofficially.

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'70 Years' — Israeli Communist poster (1949) celebrating Stalin's 70th birthday.

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Hurra Germania! — German postcard, 1915

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Temperance postcard, USA, 1915

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[Japanese > English] Japanese poster from the 1918 pandemic

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'Vote for socialism that redeems the poor from the exploitation of the rich' — Poster issued by the Italian Socialist Party ahead of the 1946 general election.

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'When death drives' — Anti-drink driving poster, Soviet Armenia, ca. 1964

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'Pope calls Gen. Franco Savior of Civilization' — Cover article of 'Social Justice' newspaper (1 May 1939) reporting on Pope Pius XII's celebration of Francisco Franco.

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Chinese satirical print (ca. 1938) showing world leaders at the peace table playing a game of mahjong.

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Soviet painting (1931) showing Stalin as Saint George fending off various counterrevolutionary beasts. Artist: Alexey Ivanovich Stolbov.

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'Italy brandishes the sword of Ancient Rome' — Italian postcard from the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) showing an Italian sailor taking up the sword of a long dead Roman soldier in Libya.

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If you think the Soviet threat is a myth, just ask a Pole — British anti-Soviet poster, UK. ca. 1980-81

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'You can help fight communism in Central America!' — Poster by Soldier of Fortune magazine, 1985, USA

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Soviet postcard (undated, 1930s) showing the Pope praying to 'St. Intervention'.

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No room at the inn — Christian cartoon, ca. 1950, presumably US

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'The face of colonialism' — Soviet Ukrainian cartoon (February 1956) contrasting 'old' and 'new' colonialists, the latter offering 'Aid for Underdeveloped Countries' with manacles concealed inside. Artist: Oleksandr Kozyrenko.

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French Catholic anti-Nazi cartoon (1935) showing brownshirts waving the Nazi flag in front of the crucified Christ. Artist: Gabriel Gobin.

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'Nazis are beasts - they murder the conquered' — American propaganda poster from the Second World War, ca. 1942.

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'We beat them then, we're beating them now and we will beat them in the future!' - Poster depicting Alexander Nevsky at the 1242 Battle on the Ice, USSR, 1941.

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'United for Action' — American Catholic cartoon (23 January 1948) showing a Catholic knight calling on all 'Believers in Christ' to battle the communists, 'The Common Enemy'. Drawn by 'Maloney' and published in The Catholic Advance.

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'The life of peoples is measured in centuries - that of Italy, in millennia' — Italian graphic (ca. 1938) showing Mussolini next to Caesar.

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'Get the hell out of here!' — American cartoon (undated, ca. 1930) showing the '4 Hour Day' booting the devil of 'Depression' off a cliff. Presumably published by the IWW.

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Italian painting (1933) showing Mussolini leading the March on Rome. Artist: Duilio Cambellotti.

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'We, too, fight' — Poster celebrating Chiang Kai-shek, 1944, USA

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Poster displayed in Rome, 1964, celebrating Khrushchev's downfall: 'Roman Communists! Khrushchev has fallen, Stalin is vindicated - Long live the glorious comrade Stalin!' (More context in comments)

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'Gibraltar! The map of Europe is going to be revised' — Spanish leaflet (ca. 1935) calling for the return of Gibraltar from the British. Issued by the Falangists, whose yoke-and-arrows symbol is printed at the bottom.

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'Tell Fidel I will do my duty' — American poster (undated, ca. 1970s) celebrating Salvador Allende following his overthrow and death.

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'No more dictatorships, forward with the DC' — Christian Democracy election poster, Italy, 1963

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French illustration from the Crimean War (28 August 1854) showing Europe holding the Russian bear back from capturing Constantinople. Published in Le Charivari, illustrated by Honore Daumier. Caption reads: 'An upset bear'.

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'Our land, worth building ... worth fighting for' — Poster published by the Combined Jewish Appeal of Montreal (ca. 1947-48)

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[Laotian? > English] Laotian anti-opium poster

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Italian postcard from the Second World War (ca. 1940) showing a soldier swinging a scythe with Death.

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'No! Neither fascism nor communism' — Italian poster published by the Christian Democracy party ahead of the 1948 general election. Artist: Albano Rossi.

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'Finland, field of honour!' — Swiss illustration published on the cover of Nebelspalter magazine during the Winter War (January 1940) showing Finnish soldiers defending a column reading 'Freedom'.

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'Once upon a time ... QADHAFI' — Cover design of a comic book published in France in 1980 celebrating the life and government of Muammar Gaddafi.

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Thatcher as a pirate leading the Royal Navy to the Falklands on the cover of Argentinian magazine 'El Porteno', May 1982. Artist: Pat Andrea.

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'England's Predatory Campaign in Five Continents 1605-1940' — Nazi anti-British propaganda map (1941)

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Macedonian nationalist map produced and circulated in Melbourne (ca. 1991-2) showing a Greater Macedonia partitioned in three.

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The Festival of the Expected Pan-Hellenic Uprising (Chicago, USA, 1909)

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[Chinese > English] Japanese-produced leaflet from the Second World War warning Chinese soldiers not to trust the Brits.

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[Pashto > English] Afghan propaganda leaflet, 1980s

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[Danish > English] Danish cartoon about the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939

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[Russian > English] Soviet anti-colonial poster

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[Russian > English] Soviet poster, 1980

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