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
- Date
- July 11, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Science and technology, War and the military
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743265 (NAID 5743265).
Text on the object
"REST CAMP" FOR EX-SOVIET-BIG-SHOTS MALENKOV MOLOTOV BULGANIN 00-13½ U.S. FIRES MOUSE INTO SPACE !! KREMLIN INTERESTED JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
