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title: Are we mice or men? ("Rest Camp" for Ex-Soviet-Big-Shots)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/are-we-mice-or-men-berryman-1958/
description: Three sweating men in prison clothes, labelled MALENKOV, MOLOTOV and BULGANIN, sit under a sign reading "REST CAMP" FOR EX-SOVIET-BIG-SHOTS. Bulganin.
section: Collection
---

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[![Are we mice or men?, 1958 US cartoon: Three sweating men in prison clothes, labelled MALENKOV, MOLOTOV and BULGANIN, sit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-we-mice-or-men-berryman-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-we-mice-or-men-berryman-1958.jpg)

# Are we mice or men? ("Rest Camp" for Ex-Soviet-Big-Shots)

Three sweating men in prison clothes, labelled MALENKOV, MOLOTOV and BULGANIN, sit under a sign reading "REST CAMP" FOR EX-SOVIET-BIG-SHOTS. Bulganin, wearing a hammer-and-sickle armband, points to a newspaper headline reading U.S. FIRES MOUSE INTO SPACE!! KREMLIN INTERESTED. The cartoon argues that Soviet leaders are unsettled by a US space launch; the technique is ridicule of named opponents.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"REST CAMP" FOR EX-SOVIET-BIG-SHOTS
MALENKOV
MOLOTOV
BULGANIN
00-13½
U.S. FIRES MOUSE INTO SPACE !!
KREMLIN INTERESTED
JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
```

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