Period
Cold War propaganda in the collection
402 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
Kingdom of GreeceΈλληνες προσοχή! Όσοι αγαπούν αληθινά την Ελλάδα ψηφίζουν Λαϊκόν Κόμμα (Greeks, beware! Those who truly love Greece vote Populist Party)
Czechoslovakia'Síla KSČ je v lidu': Communist Party pre-election photomontage leaflet, 1946
Kingdom of GreeceΣοσιαλδημοκρατία: Μερικοί που ζητούν την ψήφο σου σ' εκυβέρνησαν (Social democracy: some who ask for your vote have ruled you)Content note
Soviet UnionTegyvuoja TSRS tautų broliškoji sąjunga ir nesugriaunamoji draugystė! (Long live the fraternal union of the peoples of the USSR), Lithuanian SSR poster, 1946
Kingdom of GreeceΨηφοδέλτιον Βασιλεύς Γεώργιος Β΄ / Αυτό τρέμουν... αυτό ψήφισε ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ (King George II's ballot: this is what they fear, vote the KING)Content note
United StatesUniversal-International News title card: 'Eisenhower Says We Must Back Victory'
East GermanySaxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"
NetherlandsIndie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry
Republic of IndonesiaBoeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persatoeanmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh. Mari kita berdjoeang (Workers and Peasants, Use Your Unity to Wipe Out the Enemy. Let Us Struggle)
East Germany"Die Jugend kämpft für den Frieden!": founding ceremony of the Berlin FDJ, Friedrichstadtpalast
Republic of IndonesiaBangsa "Merdeka", Negara "Merdeka": Inilah Tudjuan Kita! (Free Nation, Free State: This Is Our Goal!)
United States美援 / American Aid Product for China (ECA label sheet)
Korea Under US Military Government총선거 5월 10일 (General Election, May 10): 총선거로 독립문은 열린다 (The General Election Opens the Independence Gate)
Democratic Republic of VietnamÀ qui le crime profite-t-il? (Viet Minh leaflet on the back of a French Indochina one-piastre note, 1948)
Republic of Indonesia"Proklamasi" Indonesia 17-8-45 Merdeka! Ulang Tahun ke 3 Kemerdekaan (Proclamation, Indonesia, 17-8-45, Free! Third Anniversary of Independence), Republican poster photographed at Sidikalang
North Korea선전원수책 No. 8 (Propagandist's Handbook No. 8): North Korean Workers' Party agitators' booklet, October 1948
United StatesUniversal-International News title card: 'Gen. Clay: Reds Underestimate Our Airlift to Berlin'
Netherlands'Politiele actie in Indonesie hervat' (Polygoon newsreel, chalkboard bulletin)Content note
North Korea선전원수책 No. 9 (Propagandist's Handbook No. 9): North Korean Workers' Party agitators' booklet, December 1948
HungaryLenin, Rákosi and Stalin portraits: Innovation and Invention Exhibition, Budapest
Republic of IndonesiaKaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)
Kingdom of GreeceΕθνική εξόρμηση για την Εργασία και τη Νίκη: 21 Μαρτίου 1949, Ημέρα του Αγρότου (National Campaign for Work and Victory: Farmers' Day)
East GermanyFDJ march-past banners at the 2nd World Festival of Youth, Budapest
Soviet UnionAukštaičių kova, Nr. 2, 27 September 1949 (Lithuanian partisan underground journal, cover)
East Germany"Jugend voran im Kampf um die Einheit Deutschlands": FDJ torchlight march, Berlin
Soviet UnionElagu suur Stalin, võitnud sotsialismi konstitutsiooni looja! (Long live great Stalin), Estonian SSR poster, 1950
East GermanyAtlantic Pact float in a peace demonstration, Leipzig
United StatesSurvival Under Atomic Attack (official U.S. Government booklet, cover)Content note
United StatesMacArthur's portrait: listen to the news at 9 every night on 950 kilocycles
East GermanyChildren examine collected Colorado beetles during the "American beetle" campaign, Chemnitz districtContent note
East Germany"Siemens-Plania grüßt die Vorhut der internat. Arbeiterklasse": factory delegation at the Soviet memorial, Treptow
United StatesMacArthur to the Commander-in-Chief, North Korean forces: atrocities against prisoners
East Germany'Deutscher, hilf den Frieden erhalten' (German, help preserve peace): banner on a state farm, Petkus, East Germany
East Germany"100% unserer Belegschaft sind gegen Remilitarisierung": factory gate boards, Werk Fortschritt II, Berlin
United StatesARCS psychological warfare leaflets and unit patch, Korea
State of VietnamCông dụng duy nhứt của giấy bạc Hồ-Chí-Minh (The Only Use of Ho Chi Minh's Banknote), leaflet imitating a 50-dong note
China"Mr. Moneybags is in Florida this Christmas" leaflet, Korean War
ChinaORDER: safe-conduct pass of the Chinese People's Volunteers' Headquarters
United StatesGive Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!
Yugoslavia"Delavci, tovarne so vaša last!" (Workers, the factories are your property!), workers' council election poster
United StatesMessage to the 45th North Korean Division: Kim Il Sung as a marionetteContent note
United StatesLoading a leaflet bomb at the Far East Command printing plant, Yokohama
East Germany"…gegen die amerikanischen Kriegsvorbereitungen": banner on a congress hall, Rössing photograph
East Germany"Vorwärts zu den III. Weltfestspielen … für den Frieden in Berlin 1951!": banner on the Konsum department store
North Korea영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People's Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on BusanContent note
North KoreaSome People Wonder! (Believe it or not, these are POW's!)
North Korea쏘베트 사회주의 공화국 련맹 내각수상 쓰딸린 대원수 (Stalin, Generalissimo): North Korean portrait broadside, circa 1951
United States行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, ChineseContent note
United StatesIs there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?
United StatesAir raid warning: Citizens of Pyongyang, leave quickly
United StatesWhere have your officers fled to?
United StatesComrades of the People's Army! Do you know why you are posted on the east front?
United StatesYou Are a Filipino / My Dear Son (voting poster sheet for the Philippines)
East Germany"Werbung für unsere Parteipresse": subscription-drive board, IFA tractor works, Nordhausen
United States世界最大的監獄 (The World's Largest Prison), U.S. map-and-newspaper-clipping poster (catalog title: Red "Bastille")Content note
United StatesIf Chinese Communists Flood into Vietnam (Vietnamese poster)Content note
United StatesAs Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap! Register and Vote!
United StatesBy Voting! (Help Build Your Country Too)
United StatesNot to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature)Content note
United StatesFreedom-Gram: Help Truth Fight Communism
East Germany"Der RIAS merk's dir armer Tropf": anti-RIAS display-case panel, Leipzig
East GermanyCaricature panel of a US soldier with workers at an exit door, Rössing photographContent note
United States中共土改真相 大陸農民厄運 (The Real Story of Red China's Land Reform: Misfortune of the Mainland Peasants), U.S. photo posterContent note
United States공산당도배들이 한국에 들어오기전에는... (Before the Communists Came to Korea...), leaflet 1321Content note
United States지게나 마차로 B-29와 젯트기에 대항이 되겠는가! (Can A-Frames and Carts Stand Against B-29s and Jets?), leaflet 8274
West Germany"Halt den Schiebern! Keine Waren für die sowjetische Rüstung": sign beside the zonal-border railway, 1952
United StatesSweet Talk Kills (Thai poster, Bangkok Poster #6)Content note
United StatesAllies for World Peace
East Germany"Kampftag für Friedensvertrag gegen Generalkriegsvertrag": May Day 1952 rally board, East Berlin
United StatesLes communistes pris en flagrant délit de mensonge (The Communists Caught in the Act of Lying)
United States他們總是說「不!」 (They Always Say "No!")
East Germany"Was hast du für den Frieden getan?": backdrop quoting Anna Seghers at the 3rd German Writers' Congress, Berlin
United StatesFree vs. Communist (Vietnamese two-column photo sheet)Content note
United StatesGuard Your Freedom (Ilocano poster)
United States史太林說「學而時習之,不亦樂乎!」 (Stalin Says: "To Study and Practise in Due Time, Is That Not a Pleasure?"), U.S. cartoon posterContent note
United StatesViệt-Minh luôn-luôn kêu-gọi chúng ta noi gương Trung-Cộng (The Vietminh Are Against Religion)
East Germany"Seite an Seite mit der Sowjetunion für den Frieden der Welt": sign on a farmhouse, Schenkenberg
United States농민의 고혈을 짜는 공산당! (The Communists Who Squeeze the Farmers' Blood), leaflet 1243Content note
United States建設馬來亞 / 破壞馬來亞 (Building Malaya / Destroying Malaya)
United States'Mossadeq's Spy Service' (CIA-prepared propaganda text, Iran, 1953)
North Korea1953년 새해를 맞는 米帝 强占下의 南半部風景 (Scenes of the Southern Half under U.S. Imperialist Occupation, at the 1953 New Year)
United States你們有多少人已戴上了綠帽子? (How Many of You Have Already Put On the Green Hat?), leaflet 7255
United States인민군 동지들이여! 그대들은 왜 동부전선에 배치되어 있는지 아는가? (Comrades of the People's Army, Do You Know Why You Are Posted on the Eastern Front?), leaflet 8321
United States你們遠離家鄉 不能骨肉團圓 都是共產党害的 (You Are Far from Home and Cannot Be Reunited with Your Kin: the Communists Did It), leaflet 8724
United States蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 7230Content note
United StatesTo the courageous jet pilots: the way to the free world (Operation Moolah leaflet)
United StatesThe Communist Party: Before and After (Chinese reversible face)Content note
United States共產黨未來之前 / 共產黨來了之後 (Before the Communist Party Came / After the Communist Party Came), U.S. turn-it-over face card
HungaryMay Day parade satire: dollar-throne figure and 'US'-helmeted puppets, BudapestContent note
United States拒否権! (Veto! Only the Soviet Union rejects Japan's UN application)
East Germany"Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953
East GermanyBerliners present gifts to Soviet soldiers "for their considered intervention" on 17 June 1953
United StatesContentment and Loathing (Chinese two-panel poster)Content note
United States成功 / 失敗 (Success / Failure), U.S. two-panel poster
United StatesDon't Sell Your Vote!
United StatesDon't Betray Your Heroes: Don't Sell Your Vote! (poster distributed in the Philippines)
IranShooresh cartoon on the 1953 dissolution referendum: "155544 votes in favour" and opponents before gallowsContent note
United States利便 / 阻險 (Convenience / Hardship), U.S. two-panel poster
Argentina"Perón cumple, Evita dignifica": the CGT tower, Buenos Aires, 1953
Democratic Republic of VietnamViệt-Xô-Trung đoàn kết (Democratic Republic of Vietnam 100-dong stamp, 1954)
United StatesInvest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe
United StatesA Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers
United StatesAttention AFP Soldiers: These Are the New Huk TacticsContent note
Kenya ColonyKenya Government Surrender Pass for Mau Mau Fighters (1955)
South VietnamBỏ phiếu cho nhà cách mạng Ngô-Đình-Diệm (Vote for the Revolutionary Ngo Dinh Diem)
South Korea'Japan's pro-communist policy: let us smash it!' (日本의容共政策을粉碎하자): school banners at a rally, South Korea
East Germany"Der Warschauer Vertrag, Kraftquell in unserem Kampf für Einheit, Frieden und Sicherheit": East CDU executive meeting, Berlin
HungarySovetskie soldaty! Russian-language appeal to Soviet troops, Budapest 1956
South VietnamViet Nam and the Fight Against Communism (pamphlet for the Manila anti-Communist league conference), contents page
West Germany"Denkt an Ungarn: Seid wachsam!" CDU poster, 1957 Bundestag election
South VietnamNgo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5
East GermanyAdenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East BerlinContent note
East Germany"Faschistische Mörder erneut in Aktion!": street board with eleven numbered portraits, East BerlinContent note
Republic of IndonesiaIngat! Inilah Irian Barat kita jang masih didjadjah Belanda (Remember! This Is Our West Irian, Still Colonised by the Dutch)Content note
South VietnamNgo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), cover
BulgariaПреносно-превозни вести, 7 September 1957: Ninth of September greeting to "the fighters for PEACE" (Varna factory newspaper)
United States"Soviet Imperialism": exhibit placard on Hungary, 1956, at Union Station, Washington, D.C.
South VietnamLá phiếu là viên đạn đồng (The Ballot Is a Bronze Bullet), National Assembly election flyer, 30 August 1959
South Vietnam30·8·59: 30 tháng 8 mình ơi! (30 August, my dear!), National Assembly election flyer, 1959
East Germany"Ran an den Speck, jagt die Militaristen weg!": pledge boot for the 10th anniversary of the GDR, Neubrandenburg district
United StatesCrowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas
East Germany"Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)
East Germany"Wer hoch hinaus will, fällt tief": GDR border billboard near MackenrodeContent note
East GermanyCooperative farmers watch Ulbricht's Volkskammer statement on television, Höhnstedt
East GermanyDeutscher Fernsehfunk main building, Berlin-Adlershof
Albania"Rroftë miqësia shqiptaro-kineze": faded slogan on a building at Porto Palermo
East GermanyFRIEDENSVERTRAG: East Berlin street board on a German peace treatyContent note
East Germany"Wählt die Kandidaten der Nationalen Front": election poster on an advertising pillar, East Berlin
South VietnamPresident Ngo Dinh Diem and the Election of April 9, 1961: Addresses, Statements, Programme, page 13 (candidacy statement)
United States"Brief History of Radio Swan": annex to a 1961 memorandum
East Germany"Grenzgänger zu bedienen ist unter unserer Würde": shop poster, Königs Wusterhausen district
East GermanyLeipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in LeipzigContent note
East Germany"Am 13. August gab's roten Pfeffer": house-community banner, BitterfeldContent note
East Germany"Wer uns angreift wird vernichtet": GDR border sign beside the new Berlin Wall (CIA photograph)
East Germany"Laßt uns gemeinsam für Frieden und Verständigung wirken!": GDR peace-treaty billboard at the Friedrichstraße crossing (CIA photograph)
East Germany"Der deutsche Friedensvertrag bändigt den westdeutschen Militarismus!": sign at the Friedrichstraße checkpoint, Berlin
East Germany"Aktuelle Kamera" interview with a detained West Berliner, Deutscher Fernsehfunk
East Germany"Der Schutzpatron der Westberliner Spionageorganisation Lemmer": ADN photomontage
South VietnamThe Murder of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam by the Vietminh Communists (Government of the Republic of Vietnam pamphlet), page 5
West Germany"Macht das Tor auf": Brandenburg Gate model at the inner-German border, east of Lübeck
South VietnamBức tâm thư (A Heartfelt Letter) to Viet Cong cadres, fighters and militia, in the name of the rallier Văn Công Chúc
South VietnamKỷ niệm ngày 1-11-1963 Cách Mạng thành công (Commemoration of 1 November 1963, the Revolution's Success): Gia Long Palace photograph sheet
South VietnamTuyên cáo của Hội đồng Quân nhân Cách mạng (Proclamation of the Military Revolutionary Council), Republic of Vietnam, 1963
East GermanyZentralbild "Terror in Südvietnam": woman and children before a burning houseContent note
South VietnamThe Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, Volume 5 (August 1963), page 7: photographs of Chou En-lai with Ho Chi Minh and of Yeh Chien-ying with Vo Nguyen Giap
United StatesCivil rights March on Washington, D.C.
East GermanyBerliner Funkhaus, Nalepastrasse: agency photo for "40 years of radio in Germany"
United StatesĐây! Lối giải phóng của bọn Cộng Phỉ (This! The Liberation Way of the Communist Bandits)
East Germany"DDR: Das ist die Zukunft Deutschlands": grandstand board beside Berlin Cathedral
United StatesNêu cao ý chí bất khuất (Uphold the Unyielding Will), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League leaflet with Le Loi
United StatesTại sao Mao Chủ tịch lại cười (Why Is Chairman Mao Laughing), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League leafletContent note
Peoples Republic of the CongoLaissez-Passer of the People's Republic of the Congo, Stanleyville (1964)
South VietnamCommunist Aggression Against the Republic of Viet-Nam (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saigon, July 1964), introduction 'Asia's Final Battle', page 9
South VietnamVietnam Fights and Builds, No. 1 (July 1964), cover
United StatesPresident Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin 'Midnight Address'
United StatesPeace, Little Girl ("Daisy")
United StatesBằng chứng cụ thể tại Vũng-Rô (Concrete Proof at Vung Ro), USIA photo-sheet
United StatesWhy Vietnam? (Department of Defense film)
South VietnamVietnam Fights and Builds, No. 6 (1965), page 5: 'International Aid Day celebrated in Saigon', 22 June 1965
United StatesThey're the reason we're in Vietnam
IranMelati bedonbal-e shah-e khod (A Nation Following Its Shah): Pahlavi government poster
United StatesXâm nhập (Infiltrate)
United StatesWhy Vietnam (USIS London pamphlet)
United StatesCác bạn còn chần chờ gì nữa? Chính quyền tỉnh Gia-Định đang chờ đón các bạn (What Are You Still Waiting For? Gia Dinh Province Is Waiting to Welcome You)
United StatesChiến thắng An-Phú (Châu Đốc) (Victory at An Phu, Chau Doc)Content note
United StatesSố hồi chánh viên tại Phú-Yên đã lên đến hơn 2400! (Ralliers in Phu Yen Have Risen to Over 2,400!)
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster, education panel
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. III, family panelContent note
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. I, food panel
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. IV, labour panel
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. II, religion panel
United Statesคอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. VI, travel panel
South VietnamCung chúc Tân Xuân (Happy New Spring) Tet greeting leaflet
United StatesDemoralization Leaflet 26: Gạo Bắc Việt (North Vietnamese Rice) cartoonContent note
Spain"Garantía de la paz, garantía del futuro": Spain's national referendum poster, 1966
South VietnamHôm nay / Ngày mai: tại sao Việt Cộng thi hành chánh sách 'cưỡng bách tòng quân' (Today / Tomorrow: why the Viet Cong carry out the policy of 'forced conscription')Content note
China"毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军" (Chairman Mao reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution for the seventh time), woven silk picture
United StatesThủy Quân Lục Chiến Mỹ có mặt tại đây để giúp đỡ đồng bào (U.S. Marines Are Here to Help the Villagers)
United StatesWhy should we help communists kill Americans?
South VietnamAmerican Officers an Men in South Vietnam, NLF leaflet to US servicemen (undated)
South VietnamThành tích hoạt động của Nội các Chiến tranh, từ 19-6-1965 đến 19-6-1966 (Record of the War Cabinet's activities), cover
South VietnamNoi gương Trần-Hưng-Đạo, toàn dân đoàn kết chống Cộng cứu nước (Follow the example of Tran Hung Dao: the whole people united against Communism to save the nation)
South VietnamOur Resounding Victories (part 1: cover and opening claims), People's Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966
South VietnamOur Resounding Victories (part 2: dated claims and appeal), People's Liberation Armed Forces leaflet to US servicemen, 1966
United StatesĐây, Chiêu Hồi có nghĩa gì! (This Is What Chieu Hoi Means!)
AlbaniaConcrete dome bunker near Krujë, Albania (bunker programme, 1967 to 1986)
United StatesChiến thắng tại Quảng-Trị (20-5-67) (Victory at Quang Tri, 20 May 1967)
United StatesChúng tôi đã rời bỏ hàng ngũ V.C... Các bạn còn chần chờ gì nữa? (We Left the VC Ranks... What Are You Still Waiting For?)
United StatesGiấy thông-hành (Safe-Conduct Pass, seven-flag version)
United StatesHồi chánh có nghĩa là trở về cuộc sống an vui thoải mái (To Rally Means Returning to a Comfortable, Happy Life)
United StatesNiềm vui mới của người hồi-chánh (New Joy of the Rallier)
South VietnamThe People Vote: The World Press Appraises Vietnam's National Elections (Vietnam Through Foreign Eyes, No. 5), page 5
South VietnamĐồng bào hãy dồn phiếu cho Liên danh Dân-chủ Nguyễn-Văn-Thiệu – Nguyễn-Cao-Kỳ (Compatriots, pool your votes for the Democratic Ticket Thieu–Ky)
United StatesViệt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!! (Viet Cong Beware!)
United States6 million: "Dear God, not again." American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive appealContent note
South Vietnam1 mục tiêu của Ấp Đời Mới (One goal of the New Life Hamlet: agriculture)
United StatesArmy Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can (US Army recruiting poster)
United StatesLiberated by the Viet CongContent note
South VietnamRepublic of Vietnam: Special Issue on the National Day (Consulate General in Hong Kong, 1968), typescript page 3 on military, economic and social 'success'
South VietnamRepublic of Vietnam: Special Issue on the National Day (Consulate General in Hong Kong, 1968), cover
Czechoslovakia"Lenin, prebuď sa, Brežnev sa zbláznil": wall slogan after the Warsaw Pact invasion, Slovakia
South VietnamỦng hộ Chính phủ do Tổng thống Nguyễn Văn Thiệu lãnh đạo (Support the Government Led by President Nguyen Van Thieu): curfew leaflet, 1968
United StatesTrung-tướng Trần-Độ: sống tại miền Bắc, chết tại miền Nam (Lieutenant General Trần Độ, Alive in the North, Dead in the South), leaflet No. 2448Content note
United StatesRemember HueContent note
Netherlands'Johnson Oorlogsmisdadiger' (Johnson, war criminal): placard at an anti-American demonstration, Amsterdam
Belgium"Vous l'aimez votre pays": Communist Party of Belgium election poster, Brussels
Democratic Republic of VietnamHanoi in English: a defector's recorded letter to 'his colored buddies', 23 June 1968Content note
Democratic Republic of VietnamHanoi in English: 'Comments on America's Independence Day', 3 July 1968Content note
CzechoslovakiaPražané! (Praguers!): leaflet from the first days of the 1968 occupation
NetherlandsBiafra famine-relief banner above a post office counter, UtrechtContent note
Soviet UnionTASS International Service, 'Occupation Progress', broadcast (Moscow, August 22, 1968; FBIS transcript)
East Germany"Die Unbesiegbaren" (The Unconquerable): Billhardt Vietnam exhibition billboard, East Berlin
United StatesYou can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ...
PortugalC.D.E. - a força do trabalho: direito à greve, direito à luta (C.D.E., the strength of labour: right to strike, right to struggle)
PortugalPor um Portugal livre: paz, liberdade, abaixo a censura (For a free Portugal: peace, freedom, down with censorship)
United States"Cuba: 10 Years of Revolution! Cuba Today": handbill template, United States, 1969
United StatesFTA, Freak the Army: GI-civilian solidarity concert and rally
United StatesHow many more must die? March Against Death: A Vietnam memorial
PeruDía de la Dignidad Nacional: Recuperación de La Brea y Pariñas (Peruvian stamp, 2.50 soles)
United StatesDove stabbed by a hammer and sickle
United StatesThe New Left is revolting
United StatesTell it to Hanoi
East Germany"Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit für Vietnam": signing of the Vietnam appeal, East Berlin
South VietnamThư xuân gửi các bạn cán binh bên kia chiến tuyến (Spring letter to the cadres and soldiers on the other side of the front line), Colonel Lê Trí Tín, Quang Nam
Soviet Union"1870 1970": Lenin centenary decoration on Palace Square, Leningrad
United StatesHe needs a mind of his own ... he needs Radio Free Europe
United StatesPrisoner of the Soviet secret police: Boris Penson, Soviet Jew: let my people go!
United StatesVietnam, Cambodia, Kent, Augusta and Jackson: Memorial Day march
United StatesSon Chan Valley, Vietnam: I'm sorry sir, but my men refuse to go
AustraliaAi Sẽ Là Những Người Kế Tiếp (Who Will Be Next), leaflet ATF-004-70Content note
AustraliaHồi Chánh viên Nguyễn Văn Rõ (Returnee Nguyen Van Ro), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-012-70
AustraliaNhững gì sẽ xảy đến cho các bạn nếu các bạn bị thương nặng (What Will Happen to You If You Are Seriously Wounded), leaflet ATF-021-70
AustraliaHãy nhớ lại người bạn cũ (Remember Your Former Comrade), leaflet ATF-022-70
AustraliaHồi Chánh Viên Trần Văn Vinh (Returnee Tran Van Vinh), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-031-70
AustraliaCác bạn đang làm gì ở đây? (What Are You Doing Here?), leaflet ATF-041-70
AustraliaẤp Tây quick-reaction contact leaflet ATF-047-70 (After the Ap Tay Contact)Content note
AustraliaTôi tự hỏi chồng tôi ở đâu và đang làm gì? (I Wonder Where My Husband Is), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-052-70
AustraliaBây giờ chúng ta đi về đâu? (Where Do We Go Now?), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-054-70
AustraliaĐồng-bào miền Nam Việt-Nam giải-quyết những vấn-đề của miền Nam (South Vietnamese Solve the Problems of the South), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-065-70
AustraliaQuyền lợi khi hồi chánh (Benefits on Rallying), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-063-70
United StatesLàm sao "Chiếu cố Miền Nam" (How Can You "Look After the South"), Lam Son 719 leaflet on the Ho Chi Minh TrailContent note
United StatesMeany in Miami Beach with our union dues
United StatesSSPL Membership Card (Chứng minh thư), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League Southern Committee
United StatesGive us this day... our sons: December 31, 1971
United StatesI am against...: Help Unsell the War congressional cut-outContent note
United StatesTwo more casualties of Viet Nam: is it worth it?Content note
United StatesThe Vietnam War, December 31, 1971: may it rest in peace
Soviet UnionGiant Lenin portrait hung in the main gate of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), Moscow
AustraliaHãy ra Chiêu-Hồi để được ăn Tết vui vẻ (Rally to Celebrate Tet in Joy), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-073-71
East GermanySigned donation ribbons "Vietnam Solidarität" handed to the IDFF secretariat, East Berlin
AustraliaTử-thần đang tìm kiếm thêm nhiều mạng sống (The Shadow of Death Is Seeking More Lives), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-074-71Content note
AustraliaChúng Tôi Đã Ra Chiêu-Hồi (We Have Rallied), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-078-71
AustraliaPhù-hiệu này có nghĩa gì? / Ý nghĩa Chiêu-Hồi (What Does This Emblem Mean? / The Meaning of Chieu Hoi), leaflet ATF-079-71
AustraliaHồi Chánh Viên Nguyễn Văn Lệ (Returnee Nguyen Van Le), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-080-71
AustraliaCác đồng-đội của các bạn ở Kampuchea đang bị khổ-sở (Your Comrades in Kampuchea Are Suffering), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-085-71
AustraliaHồi Chánh Viên Phùng Xuân Hồ (Returnee Phung Xuan Ho), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-092-71
AustraliaHãy trở về với chánh-nghĩa (Return to the Just Cause), Xuyên Mộc 'follow the arrows' leaflet ATF-088-71
AustraliaHãy trở về với Chính-Phủ Việt-nam Cộng-Hòa (Return to the Government of the Republic of Vietnam), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-112-71
SpainBando del Ayuntamiento de Cobeja: S.E. el Jefe del Estado, Generalísimo Franco, pasará por Olías del Rey (1971)
AustraliaPhạm Văn Lê, dí-danh Phạm-Văn-Thao (Returnee Pham Van Le, alias Pham Van Thao), Chieu Hoi leaflet 1971
AustraliaHỡi các Sĩ-Quan và Binh-sĩ thuộc Trung-Đoàn 4 Chủ-Lực (To the Officers and Soldiers of the 274th Main Force Regiment), leaflet ATF-115-71Content note
AustraliaCùng các đội-viên du-kích và chi-bộ xã Bình-Ba (To the Binh Ba Guerrillas and Party Chapter), leaflet
United StatesAbortion Action Week, May 1-6, 1972
South VietnamBình Long Anh Dũng / Valiant Binh Long (booklet cover)
South VietnamValiant Binh Long (booklet text page: the March 1972 crossing and the road to An Lộc)Content note
United StatesBenefit night and rally for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (Brooklyn, 1972)Content note
United StatesThere are but two sides in a war: she fights on the side of African freedom, Gulf finances the other: Boycott Gulf
United StatesFrom 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and the Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs
South VietnamTrị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: 'The final battle is being concluded')
South VietnamTrị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: elderly refugee and children, 'the communists' yoke')Content note
South VietnamTrị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet page: photograph of wrecked buildings with caption)
South VietnamTrị, Thiên vùng dậy (booklet text page: from Tet 1968 to the 1972 offensive)
ChinaMao portrait and Party slogan on the Beijing airport terminal, Nixon arrival, 21 February 1972
East GermanySigned "Fahne der Solidarität" handed to a DRV diplomat, LPG Mansfeld
East Germany"Mit guten Taten überall voran zum X. Festival!": hand-painted sign, Dresden funicular station
China"英雄黄继光" (Hero Huang Jiguang), Shanghai poster
United StatesU.S. out of S.E. Asia now! Stop racism! Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, Washington, D.C.
United StatesWanted: information on over 1300 men missing in action
China"We never stop praising the thoughts of our Chairman Mao" (museum title), Xinjiang poster
ChileAllende's radio and television greeting for International Women's Day
Netherlands"Boycot Outspan" Protest Outside Albert Heijn, Amsterdam (1973)
East GermanyVietnam banners in the FDJ demonstration, 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, East Berlin
China"团结起来 争取更大的胜利" (Unite, strive for even greater victories), Shanghai poster
United StatesNixon with the edited White House tape transcripts
China"连队理论小组" (Company theory study group), Shanghai poster
China"为革命实行计划生育" (Practise family planning for the revolution), Shanghai poster
SpainFranco's tomb before the high altar, Valley of the Fallen (photograph, 2005)Content note
United StatesLooked like everybody in Africa was in there waitin' for us!, Ollie Harrington, Daily World cartoon, c.1975
Soviet Union"Да здравствует Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза!": rooftop slogan, Moscow
PortugalPartido Socialista posters on a Lisbon building front, early 1975
China"各族人民心向党" (The peoples of all nationalities turn their hearts to the Party), Shanghai poster
IranCentral Bank of Iran 100 rials note, 50th anniversary of the Pahlavi monarchy, 1355 (1976)
China"批判资产阶级法权思想,全心全意为人民服务!" (Criticize bourgeois-right thinking, serve the people wholeheartedly), Shanghai poster
SomaliaBarre Cult of Personality Mural
United StatesSWAPO: The People Armed (c. 1976 solidarity poster)
China"团结战斗学大寨 誓把山河面貌改" (Unite and fight, learn from Dazhai, vow to change the face of the land), poster
United StatesWe need handguns like we need a hole in the head
China中共中央通知 中发〔1976〕16号 (CCP Central Committee Notice, Zhongfa [1976] No. 16), first page
United StatesWe asked four leading crooks for their opinion on gun control
Soviet UnionSlogan banners at a rally on Lenin Square, Gomel: "Слава КПСС!" (Glory to the CPSU!)
Soviet Union"БАМ — стройка всенародная" (BAM, a construction of the whole people): Lenin portrait and union-republic emblem board, Ust-Ilimsk
Soviet UnionRow of agitation boards on a construction site, Ust-Ilimsk: "Делу Ленина верны!" (Loyal to Lenin's cause!)
RomaniaScînteia Tineretului, 7 March 1977: Ceaușescu's visit to earthquake-hit areas
China"打倒王张江姚…" (Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao...), wall slogan at Dazhai, Shanxi
Albania"Qëllimi i televizionit borgjezo-revizioniste": beach sign against foreign television, Durrës, 1978Content note
Albania"Atdheu e mbron i gjithë populli": mural of armed figures on an apartment block, 1978
Albania"Marksizem-Leninizmi flamuri fitimtar": roadside board with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, 1978
United States"Right to Life" demonstration, at White House and Capitol
Albania"Tek uniteti Parti-Popull qëndron forca jonë": Party of Labour board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, 1978Content note
RomaniaMass spectacle with Ceaușescu portrait, "23 August" Stadium, Bucharest, 23 September 1978
EgyptFBIS Daily Report: Cairo MENA on a Syrian 'plan' to cause political disorder (28 Sep 1978)
SyriaFBIS Daily Report: Damascus Domestic Service on the 'treasonous Camp David agreements' (28 Sep 1978)Content note
EgyptCairo Governorate portrait boards of Sadat and Carter (1979)
RhodesiaReserve Bank of Rhodesia ten-dollar note, reverse with Great Zimbabwe (1979)
EgyptState Information Service billboard 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' (Cairo, 1979)
IranKhomeini among widows and orphans, with the fallen Shah at his feet: poster signed Norouzian, May 1979Content note
IranFBIS Daily Report: Tehran Domestic Service on the occupation of the U.S. Embassy (5 Nov 1979)Content note
IranBanisadr presidential election poster ("We vote for Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr"), Qaemshahr Islamic Youth Association
IranAyyuha al-jaysh al-'iraqi al-sharif (O honourable Iraqi army): Iranian Army leaflet on Saddam's 'film'Content note
IraqPayam: Ay Iraniyan (Message: O Iranians): Iraqi armed forces notice with image of Imam Ali
Iran"War, war, until victory": Iranian war-affairs poster, 1980s
IranThe Shah kneeling before Khomeini beneath a Quranic scroll: Iranian poster, 1980Content note
CubaHavana Domestic Service, Castro's May Day speech on the Peruvian embassy exodus ('lumpens', 'scum'), broadcast (Havana, May 1, 1980)Content note
Netherlands"Eet geen Outspan sinaasappelen" B.O.A. poster shown at a press conference (Netherlands, 1980)Content note
AfghanistanFBIS Daily Report: Kabul Domestic Service reads an Afghan trade-union message blaming 'world-devouring imperialism led by U.S. imperialism'Content note
IranYa abna' al-jaysh al-'iraqi (O Sons of the Iraqi Army): Iranian Army leaflet
Poland"1 Maja": PZPR works-committee invitation to the May Day march, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
IranRajai and Bahonar in divine palms above Statue-of-Liberty figures: Isfahan Islamic Guidance poster, 1981Content note
New ZealandApartheid Kills: Stop the Tour, Day of Shame (Wellington protest poster, 1981)
LibyaTripoli radio on the Gulf of Sidra incident ('terrorist Ronald Reagan'), FBIS Daily Report, 21 August 1981Content note
BulgariaSofia Domestic Service, broadcast on Jaruzelski declaring martial law in Poland (Sofia, December 13, 1981; FBIS Daily Report, 14 December 1981)Content note
East GermanySolidaritätsmeeting für El Salvador, Sandersdorf (Bezirk Halle)
Poland"Zomomotywa": anonymous typed satire poem on ZOMO and the party leadershipContent note
Netherlands"NATO soldaten tegen kernwapens": banner at the Volkel air base demonstration
Netherlands"Na atoomreagan geen zonneschijn": banner at a Dutch anti-nuclear demonstration
East Germany"Schluß mit der israelischen Aggression": FDJ students' Lebanon solidarity meeting, Berlin
Iran"Workers, toilers! Islam is your supporter": Jomhouri-e Eslami special issue, 1982
Poland"Życiorys generała": anonymous typed satirical verse biography of General JaruzelskiContent note
ChileFrente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez leaflet: "Integrate a las Milicias Rodriguistas" (c. 1983-1988)
East Germany"STOP - Hände weg von Nikaragua!": solidarity meeting at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, BerlinContent note
East Germany"STOP Raketenbeschluß!": child with a placard at a youth peace rally, Suhl
Netherlands"Geen boykot = meer geweld in Zuid-Afrika" banner and stained CDA flag, The Hague (1983)Content note
Soviet UnionTASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983Content note
United States'People of Grenada' leaflet (Operation Urgent Fury)
United States"People of Grenada": US forces handbill, Operation Urgent Fury
East Germany"Keine neuen US-Raketen in Westeuropa!": peace manifestation, Halle
GrenadaFBIS Daily Report: Radio Free Grenada bulletins on the expected invasion, including 'Jamaican Invasion Plans Diversion'Content note
EthiopiaFBIS Daily Report: Addis Ababa Domestic Service on the founding congress of the Workers Party of Ethiopia and the decree dissolving COPWE
Soviet UnionBilingual banner "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship" on a Moscow house of culture, XII World Festival of Youth and Students
PolandBanned union's banners on the fence at Jasna Góra, Częstochowa: "Zło dobrem zwyciężaj"
Romania"Frontul Democrației și Unității Socialiste - cel mai larg organism politic": Romanian wall chart
CubaFBIS Daily Report: Havana International Service lines up foreign voices against Radio Marti
United States'Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare' (CIA Contra training manual, Nicaragua, p. 33, 1980s)Content note
Soviet UnionMultilingual banners at the Artek international Pioneer camp, Gurzuf: "Für antiimperialistischen Frieden und Freundschaft"
Romania"Epoca Ceaușescu": 65th-anniversary billboard of the Romanian Communist Party, Bucharest, 1986
RomaniaNicolae and Elena Ceaușescu before a costumed crowd with portrait banners, 1986
Romania65 de ani de la făurirea Partidului Comunist Român: Romanian party-anniversary poster
Soviet UnionRadio Moscow World Service on the Chernobyl accident and U.S. reports, FBIS Daily Report, 1 May 1986Content note
Taiwan"三民主義統一中國" (Three Principles of the People Unites China): sign on Dadan, Kinmen
East Germany"25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, BerlinContent note
East Germany"Ihr Tod ist uns Verpflichtung": Pioneers at the border-troops memorial, Berlin
North KoreaFBIS Daily Report: Nodong Sinmun commentary 'Tears of the Instigator' on the 1976 Panmunjom axe incidentContent note
United StatesNancy Reagan holds up a 'Just Say No' sign for press photographers
North KoreaFBIS Daily Report: Pyongyang commentary calls the 1983 Rangoon bombing a 'drama self-made by the puppets'Content note
ChileAvanzada Nacional leaflet inviting supporters to greet "the President" on his birthday (1986)
ChinaFBIS Daily Report: 'Beijing Mayor on Role of University Students' (Xinhua Domestic Service, 23 Dec 1986)
HungaryWorkers' Militia unit assembly, Cegléd: "A szocialista haza védelme pártunk, államunk, népünk közös ügye"
Netherlands"Reagan stop Star-Wars": placard and children's banners at an anti-missile demonstration, The Hague
RomaniaDefaced ballot, Tulcea County, Great National Assembly elections, 17 November 1987
Chile"El No... otra vez la Unidad Popular" leaflet: queues, empty shelves and ration cards (1988)
Chile"8 años más... con Pinochet... NO!" leaflet (Partido Radical, Chile, 1988)Content note
Chile"Pinochet: Nunca nadie hizo más por la familia chilena": 1988 plebiscite pamphlet
ChilePartido por la Democracia leaflet: a giant "NO" beside five grievances (1988 plebiscite)
Chile"Soldado: en el plebiscito, por la patria vota NO" leaflet (1988)
Chile"Usted elige" leaflet: Chilean flag above a hammer-and-sickle field (1988 plebiscite period)
Chile"¿Y qué ocurre hoy? ... Vote SÍ" leaflet (Chile, 1988)
Soviet UnionДым, в котором мы живём (The Smoke in Which We Live)
Nicaragua"No vamos a aceptar... que la bandera Roja y Negra claudique": billboard, León, Nicaragua
HungaryStage slogan at the MSZMP national conference, Budapest: "A párt vezetésével, [de]mokrácia és a reformok útján a szocializmusért!"
IraqAl-Iraq newspaper, 7 January 1989: new-year illustration of Saddam Hussein with '1989' bannerContent note
Poland"WANTED / List gończy": Solidarność Walcząca handbill against Jaruzelski, PoznańContent note
United StatesPresident Bush holds up a bag of crack in the Oval Office
East GermanyEast Berlin radio and television on the October 1989 demonstrations ('Black Channel'), FBIS Daily Report, 11 October 1989Content note
East GermanyNeues Forum Leipzig, "Aufruf des Neuen Forum" (12 October 1989)
Czechoslovakia'Generální stávka 27. 11. = první svobodné volby': student-printed strike poster, November 1989
Czechoslovakia'Šance pro 15 000 000': hand-painted student-strike poster, Prague, November 1989
RomaniaBucharest Domestic Service: Ceausescu's address on the Timisoara events, FBIS Daily Report, 21 December 1989Content note
RomaniaScînteia, 21 December 1989: "Cuvîntarea tovarășului Nicolae Ceaușescu la posturile de radio și televiziune"
RomaniaScînteia Poporului, Anul I Nr. 1 (23 December 1989): front page of the National Salvation Front's first daily
CzechoslovakiaMock death notice for 'the totalitarian power of one political party', 1990Content note
Soviet Union24. veebruaril valite vabaduse: Eesti Kongress (On 24 February choose freedom: Estonian Congress), election poster, 1990
United StatesDesert Storm surrender leaflets (CIA museum display)
United StatesGulf War leaflet, portrait with mourning band 'The cold face of death and war'Content note
United StatesGulf War leaflet, skull-faced figure 'Ruler of the dead'Content note
Iraqبطل النصر والسلام (Hero of Victory and Peace), Saddam Hussein roadside mural, bullet-damagedContent note
IraqBaghdad communique and RCC-Ba'th statement, 17 January 1991 (FBIS translation)Content note
IraqFBIS Daily Report: Baghdad Domestic Service reads Saddam Husayn's letter to Bush (17 Jan 1991)Content note
North KoreaKim Il-sung portrait flag pin beside a national flag patch, North Korea (photographed 2007)
North KoreaKim Il-sung statue and Mansudae Grand Monument, Pyongyang (photographed 2010)
North KoreaKim Il-sung lapel badges on a school group, North Korea (photographed 2010)
North KoreaChollima Statue, Mansu Hill, Pyongyang (photographed 2014)
North KoreaJuche Tower tribute plaques from foreign study groups, Pyongyang (photographed 2018)