This godless Communism

[RedRalph]

Hi-larious cold war American propaganda from 1961. I think even the anti-commie here will see the humour in this... even for the time it looks really dated. http://www.authentichistory.com/1960s/treasure_chest/godless_communism.html

Let me know what you think and if you have any other hilarious examples of propaganda from EITHER side of the cold war then post them here

 

[Newbunkle]

LOL that is pretty funny.

 

[Arwon]

They attacked their representative government? In russia in 1917?

Haha, they attacked a perfectly good revolutionary socialist government and brought in COMMUNISM! EGADS!

 

[Traitorfish]

I like how they managed to slip a little sexism in alongside the anti-communism. Go reactionary 1960ss America!

 

[Arwon]

http://www.authentichistory.com/1960s/treasure_chest/v17_04_30.html - the caricature of Hegel and Marx's time in his classes is also quite funny, as is the constant references to OMG GODLESSNESS.

 

[RedRalph]

"Good! He does not believe in a free will..."

 

[REDY]

Wow nice link. Thanks a lot.

 

[Swedishguy]

Some Japanese were told by Soviets that all the children and women have died. When they got back home they were in for a surprise.

 

[RedRalph]

I like the two middle panels in this bit

1: stop boasting and help us you feckless bastards!

2: the greedy bastards! Joining in on our parade!


No mention of comparitive war casualties as per usual...

 

[bhsup]

Have you never heard the radio show that was around then?

I Was A Communist For The FBI

 

[I'm Cleo!]

I love the letter from J. Edgar Hoover in the beginning.

Thanks for the link.

Cleo

 

[Elrohir]

Have you never heard the radio show that was around then?

I Was A Communist For The FBI

I'm pretty sure I listened to an episode or two of that on tape when I was younger....

Yes, I listened to old radio programs growing up. I was sort of an odd child.

 

[Masquerouge]

Golden link right there

Love the sucker punch at Hegel

Have you never heard the radio show that was around then?

I Was A Communist For The FBI

Is that where the guy explains how in Soviet Russia they changed all the holy songs to communist anthems, and then sings a completely made-up song about Stalin?

 

[philippe]

 

[amadeus]

As humorous as the title might seem, it does a fairly decent job of informing people of the truth. After all, what's wrong about this:

Soviet tanks rolling into Hungary, Poland, and East Germany? It happened.

 

[Mirc]

Lol that's pretty funny.

A good anti-west propaganda was the anthem of Romania during 1953-1977:

Spoiler :

We glorify you, Romania, our Fatherland
Proud lands under your peaceful sky are yielding
The cursed yoke of the past is smashed
It was not in vain that our heroic ancestors fought;
Today we're fulfilling their wonderful dream

Powerful, free,
Master of your fate
Long live the Romanian
People's Republic!

May our people be forever brothers
With the liberator Soviet people
May Leninism be our lighthouse and force and momentum
We're following with faith our invincible Party
We're creating socialism on our country's land.

Powerful, free,
Master of your fate
Long live the Romanian
People's Republic!

We're building new factories, we're increasing the yield of the land
We want to live in peace with all peoples
But if our enemies come to trample us
We will defeat them in the name of everything we love
And we will rise to glorify our Fatherland's flag

Powerful, free,
Master of your fate
Long live the Romanian
People's Republic!

Amazing how an anthem of a country can mention another neighboring country as the "liberators" and the last bit of text is a pretty subtle thing - basically it tried to make having an agricultural country sound good. Can't really translate that in English, but the anthem also replaces as many Latin words as possible with Slavic ones, sometimes clearly forcing it. I wonder why.

Edit:
I remember there was also a picture that circulated a lot showing Ceausescu as an angel surrounded by demons called "France", "USA", "Britain", etc., and saying "don't you want to be on the side of God?" Can't find it now, but seems every single piece of propaganda makes extensive use of the word God, assuming strongly that "God is on our side", regardless that it's also what the opposite side thinks.

 

[Mise]

This is riveting! I can't put it down!

Seriously the propaganda is actually working on me.

 

[bhsup]

Why is this being called propaganda? This is communism we're talking about, after all. Not much bad could be said about it that probably isn't true.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Why is this being called propaganda? This is communism we're talking about, after all. Not much bad could be said about it that probably isn't true.

Correction.

This isn't Communism.

Its Bull . .. .. .. ..

Quite humerous though.

 

[Masquerouge]

Why is this being called propaganda? This is communism we're talking about, after all. Not much bad could be said about it that probably isn't true.

Is is propaganda because it conveniently omits or distorts a lot of historical facts... There are much better and much more serious critics of communism out there, which makes this one so bad it's fun.