Propaganda in photos.

Started this thread a year or so but didn't keep it up, thought I'd try and revive it.

"Red army, save us!" – poster in Leningrad during the siege. Design by Viktor Koretsky, one of the USSR's foremost propagandists during the war.

A child on skis looks up at a poster enjoining citizens to "Destroy the German monster!" Another from Leningrad.

Leningrad again: people browsing paintings that had been mounted in front Kazan Cathedral. The poster on the right: "All for the defence of Leningrad"

"Strong and ready” – Polish propaganda poster published in 1939 to promote the Anti-aircraft Defense Loan (Pożyczka Obrony Przeciwlotniczej).

On the right, a tourist in Warsaw, 1939, posing next to one of the posters.

"Every German, one bullet" – Polish poster published by the Polish Home Army + two photographs from the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 featuring the poster.

Two men in Hankou (1938) looking at posters depicting Japanese atrocities. Picture by Cornell Capa. Knowledgable IG followers tell me that these posters were sponsored by Chinese Christians.

Swedish volunteer soldier examines the famous Finnish Winter War poster: “You belong to the home front - suppress all hearsay, gossip and every rumour!”

Men saluting the image of Mussolini in Addis Ababa following the city's conquest in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

Catalan propaganda from the Spanish Civil War, featuring two of my favourite posters from the war. Thanks to @garbuixgrafic for these.

Boy in Belfast (1970) posing with Sinn Féin’s ‘Don’t Fraternise!’ poster.

Workers in a Yugoslav car assembly plant taking a break next to a portrait of Tito. Photo by Steve Mccurry.

American soldier inspecting a bullet-ridden portrait of Mussolini during the Battle of Anzio, 1944.

Photo taken by the photographer Roman Vishniac in Berlin, 1933, with Vishniac’s daughter posing next to election posters. The one with Hitler and Hindenburg reads: “The Marshal and the Corporal fight with us for peace and equality”.

A German civilian looks at a large poster portrait of Stalin on the Unter-den-Linden in Berlin, 3 June 1945.

Nationalist soldiers in Seville during the Spanish Civil War looking up at a fundraising poster. The poster shows a soldier posing with the city’s iconic giralda belltower, with the text reading – “Sevillanos! Increase your subscription for the glorious saviours of Spain”.⁣

May Day in Belgrade, 1946, with men carrying posters of Tito and Stalin. Two years before the breakup.

“We don’t like the Dutch!” — Anti-Dutch propaganda banner from Indonesia, ca. 1945, showing various scenes of Indonesians spurning the Dutch.

British Indian soldier reading an Indonesian nationalist poster during the Battle of Surabaya in November 1945. The poster reads: “Indian Soldiers!!! Respect the Indonesian National Uprising!!!”

Italian soldiers in Liguria, 1940, raising their daggers in salute, with a portrait of Mussolini behind them. The dagger salute was common in Fascist Italy. The caption reads: “Duce, the Forestale salutes you” (the Forestale was the Italian State Forestry Corps)