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title: Poland propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/country/poland/
description: Browse all 20 items from Poland in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
section: Collection
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# Poland propaganda in the collection

20 objects, listed by date.

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- [Bohaterowie frontu i kawiarni (Heroes of the Front and of the Café)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bohaterowie-frontu-kawiarni-poland-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Name-calling)
- [Bolszewicy mordują bezbronne kobiety! (The Bolsheviks Murder Defenceless Women!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bolszewicy-morduja-kobiety-poland-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Graphic atrocity imagery: a blood-covered soldier with a knife menaces women and a child (Polish anti-Bolshevik poster, 1920).
- [Do broni! Wszyscy na front! (To Arms! Everyone to the Front!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-broni-poland-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Fear appeal, Bandwagon)
- [Jego program (His Programme): Polish caricature poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jego-program-kotkowski-frejlich-poland-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Caricature of Soviet leaders as a bloated red figure on a skull-topped cart over corpses; the verse names Bashkirs and Chinese as the Cheka's rulers.
- [Wolność Bolszewicka (Bolshevik Freedom): Polish Army propaganda poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wolnosc-bolszewicka-poland-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Caricature of a nude Bolshevik leader seated on skulls with a bloody knife; soldiers kill captives behind him.
- [Wstąp do wojska. Broń Ojczyzny (Join the Army. Defend the Fatherland)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wstap-do-wojska-bron-ojczyzny-sawiczewski-1920/) (Poland · 1920 · Transfer)
- [Bij bolszewika (Strike the Bolshevik): Polish lithograph poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bij-bolszewika-poland-1920/) (Poland · Jul 1920 · Name-calling). Content note: Grotesque caricature of a Red Army soldier, shown being cut down by a cavalryman (Polish poster, 1920).
- [Kurjer Warszawski, no. 220, morning edition, front page (Warsaw, 10 August 1920): "Konferencja w Hythe" and "Do broni!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kurjer-warszawski-do-broni-hythe-1920/) (Poland · Aug 10, 1920 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Bolszewicy idą! Z czem szli bolszewicy? (The Bolsheviks Are Coming! What Did the Bolsheviks Come With?)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bolszewicy-ida-biuro-propagandy-poland-1920/) (Poland · Aug 31, 1920 · Fear appeal, Name-calling, Transfer). Content note: Six cartoon panels attributing looting, forced labour, sexual coercion, flogging, starvation and mass suicide to the Bolsheviks, with six-pointed stars drawn on the caps of some figures; Commons files it under Zydokomuna and antisemitism in art.
- [Rzeczpospolita, no. 130, front page (Warsaw, 13 May 1926): "Zamach stanu"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rzeczpospolita-zamach-stanu-1926/) (Poland · May 13, 1926 · Name-calling, Transfer)
- [Robotnik, no. 132 (2932), front page (Warsaw, 14 May 1926): "Dziś strajk powszechny"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/robotnik-dzis-strajk-powszechny-1926/) (Poland · May 14, 1926 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [This Is Poland: One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-this-is-poland-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) (Poland · 1939 · Glittering generalities, Card stacking)
- [General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Forces, Prime Minister](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/general-wladyslaw-sikorski-portrait-poland-1940/) (Poland · 1940 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Manifest i pierwsze dekrety Polskiego Komitetu Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN Manifesto poster), July 1944](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pkwn-manifest-and-first-decrees-poster-1944/) (Poland · Jul 22, 1944 · Name-calling, Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["1 Maja": PZPR works-committee invitation to the May Day march, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poland-pzpr-may-day-invitation-poznan-1981/) (Poland · 1981 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- ["Zomomotywa": anonymous typed satire poem on ZOMO and the party leadership](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zomomotywa-opposition-satire-poem-1982/) (Poland · Apr 1982 · Name-calling). Content note: Vulgar satirical verse insulting named political figures and police, including 'Zionist' used as an insult.
- ["Życiorys generała": anonymous typed satirical verse biography of General Jaruzelski](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zyciorys-generala-opposition-satire-poem-1982/) (Poland · Oct 1982 · Name-calling). Content note: Satirical verse using ethnic slurs for Russians ('nits') and an ethnic pun on 'Jew' and 'Jerusalem'; vulgar insults of a named general.
- [Banned union's banners on the fence at Jasna Góra, Częstochowa: "Zło dobrem zwyciężaj"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poland-solidarity-banners-jasna-gora-1985/) (Poland · 1985 · Transfer)
- ["WANTED / List gończy": Solidarność Walcząca handbill against Jaruzelski, Poznań](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidarnosc-walczaca-list-gonczy-jaruzelski-poznan-1989/) (Poland · Jun 1989 · Name-calling). Content note: Mock 'wanted' notice offering a reward for a named real person 'alive or dead', with accusations of war crimes, NKVD service and mental illness.
- ['Attention! The border with Poland is heavily guarded' (Polish Interior Ministry notice for migrants, Arabic)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/poland-mswia-notice-to-migrants-arabic-2021/) (Poland · Sep 2021 · Fear appeal)
