This Wouldn't Stand Inspection!
A woman in a long black shawl labelled 'WOMEN OF HUNGARY' stands in rubble facing a tank with a hammer-and-sickle emblem on its turret and its gun barrel pointing past her. The cartoon argues that unarmed civilians are confronting Soviet armour; it presents the woman as defiant and the tank as the instrument of force.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- December 7, 1956
- 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
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, 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, 5743239 (NAID 5743239).
Text on the object
WOMEN OF HUNGARY JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
