Content note: Demeaning caricatures of Stalin and Churchill with a Slovak newspaper account of the 1942 Dieppe raid. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Churchill and Stalin, 14-23 August (Dieppe), Ľudové noviny
A three-panel strip dated 14, 19 and 23 August shows a red-coated, star-marked Stalin ordering a bowler-hatted Churchill to open a second front, a German soldier above sinking British ships, and both leaders weeping on the telephone. The tell: the accompanying text calls Stalin the 'bloody ruler of Moscow' and draws both leaders as comic figures.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ľudové noviny (Slovak newspaper, Slovak Republic)
- Country
- Slovak Republic
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- First Slovak Republic
- Leader
- Vojtech Tuka
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Ľudové noviny items, webumenia.sk SVK:TMP.221 and neighbours), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (anonymous Czechoslovak work, 50 yrs; PD in 1996; Commons PD tag)
Unknown author; Ľudové noviny, Slovakia, 1942 (webumenia.sk SVK:TMP series), via Wikimedia Commons. Basis: Czechoslovak law of 1965 s.33(3), anonymous works PD after 50 years.
Text on the object
14. augusta Stalin rozkazuje Churchillovi zriadiť druhý front Churchill bol 14. augusta na návšteve v Moskve u Stalina. Svet vedel, že je to nie zdvorilostná návšteva, ale že Churchill bol pre rozkazy, ktoré mu dal krvavý vladár Moskvy. Tento rozkaz bol: zriadenie druhého frontu, aby sa boľševikom uľahčilo v kliešťach nemeckých a spojeneckých vojsk. Churchill 19. augusta splnil Stalinov rozkaz a nariadil veľké vylodenie niekoľkých divízií na francúzske pobrežie pri Dieppe. Nemecká armáda však dala Churchillovi rázne poučenie. Podrobné správy hovoria o výsledku a neúspechu tohto podniku. Ako sa tváril Stalin, keď mu Churchill 23. augusta oznamoval výsledok pokusu o druhý front, to najlepšie znázorňuje tento obraz (Stalin nariera). 19. augusta druhý front v skutočnosti 23. augusta Churchill oznamuje výsledok pri Dieppe
14 August Stalin orders Churchill to set up a second front On 14 August Churchill was on a visit to Moscow to see Stalin. The world knew that this was not a courtesy visit, but that Churchill was there for orders given to him by the bloody ruler of Moscow. This order was: set up a second front, to ease the Bolsheviks' position in the pincers of the German and allied armies. On 19 August Churchill carried out Stalin's order and ordered a large landing of several divisions on the French coast at Dieppe. The German army, however, gave Churchill a sharp lesson. Detailed reports speak of the result and failure of this undertaking. How Stalin looked when Churchill reported the result of the second-front attempt to him on 23 August is best shown by this picture (Stalin wails). 19 August the second front in reality 23 August Churchill reports the result at Dieppe
Read from the 500 px scan with the Commons description text as a cross-check; the last word of the paragraph in brackets is hard to read at this size and follows the Commons transcription as 'narieka'. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
