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kilgram
10-28-2013, 10:57 AM
Every age has its bogeyman. If you grew up in 1950s and 60s America you would have been bombarded with anti-communist propaganda. In hindsight it is perhaps easy to raise a wry eyebrow. Yet at the time the threat was taken very seriously indeed. Here, hysteria intact, are a few of the stranger messages delivered to the American people.

The Red Menace: Anti-Communist propaganda (http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-red-menace-anti-communist.html)
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3184/2439695420_e9a8a6f6c9_b.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-P_xWZhk1Q/UmuzpJo-5aI/AAAAAAAArLE/17Rhq-McX4M/s1600/red+menace+anti+soviet+propaganda+communism+hypnot ism+the+beatles.jpg

Mister D
10-28-2013, 11:02 AM
I have a copy of thast Scot Towels ad in my house. :grin: Not an original though.

Mister D
10-28-2013, 11:10 AM
Great one from Spain.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/spanish_civil_war.jpg

Captain Obvious
10-28-2013, 12:27 PM
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countryboy
10-28-2013, 12:36 PM
The red menace was a threat then, as it is today. You are living proof of that kilgram.

kilgram
10-28-2013, 01:31 PM
The red menace was a threat then, as it is today. You are living proof of that @kilgram (http://thepoliticalforums.com/member.php?u=867).
How can I be a menace? To what?

Am I a menace to the power of the corporations, of the rich, of the inequalities, of the injustice, of the overpower of a few over the rest that are slaves, to the government, to the authoritarism? Well then I am honoured to be. I want to be a menace to all this.

Communism never has been a menace, not more than Capitalism.

nathanbforrest45
10-28-2013, 01:37 PM
Communism has never been a menace? Tell that to 3 million Cambodians who died in the killing fields for Pol Pot.

Tell that to the millions of Russians who were sent to the Gulags and died or were starved to death over Stalin's great millet experiments. Tell that to the Chinese who died under Mao's Cultural Revolution. Tell that to the French who died because of the French Revolution, the first communist takeover.

kilgram
10-28-2013, 01:47 PM
Communism has never been a menace? Tell that to 3 million Cambodians who died in the killing fields for Pol Pot.

Tell that to the millions of Russians who were sent to the Gulags and died or were starved to death over Stalin's great millet experiments. Tell that to the Chinese who died under Mao's Cultural Revolution. Tell that to the French who died because of the French Revolution, the first communist takeover.
Pol Pot who was supported by USA, eh but USA is not a menace, however USA never supported any dictatorship, no?

Who is the menace?

By the way, Pol Pot was not communist, he murdered all the communists. But that part of the history you forgot.

countryboy
10-28-2013, 01:49 PM
Canned commie response noted.

kilgram
10-28-2013, 01:51 PM
Canned commie response noted.
Canned Capitalist response noted.

kilgram
10-28-2013, 01:58 PM
Great one from Spain.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/spanish_civil_war.jpg
I don't know of what period it is, but I would think that it is some Fascist ad(Falange) or from Franco.

I say it for the terms used:

- Politicastros
- Masones
- Separatismo

This language is usual in the Spanish fascism. However I agree with the first term: Politicastros.

Mister D
10-28-2013, 02:02 PM
I don't know of what period it is, but I would think that it is some Fascist ad(Falange) or from Franco.

I say it for the terms used:

- Politicastros
- Masones
- Separatismo

This language is usual in the Spanish fascism. However I agree with the first term: Politicastros.

It's from the civil war.

kilgram
10-28-2013, 02:39 PM
It's from the civil war.
I suppossed. The style was of the Civil War or the 40s.

The propaganda of the different sides was really good during the Civil War. The ads were really imaginative.

Alyosha
10-28-2013, 02:43 PM
We were sending over infiltrators and trying to produce communists in the US just like you were sending over people to seed us with capitalism.

It seemed to work on both sides.

Mister D
10-28-2013, 02:46 PM
I suppossed. The style was of the Civil War or the 40s.

The propaganda of the different sides was really good during the Civil War. The ads were really imaginative.

I agree. The propaganda art from that era was great.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fu6xKX6yUGk/T0F2cMKKGdI/AAAAAAAACd0/0uRfJKf5Bys/s1600/spanish-civil-war-poster-13.jpg

nathanbforrest45
10-28-2013, 02:58 PM
Pol Pot who was supported by USA, eh but USA is not a menace, however USA never supported any dictatorship, no?

Who is the menace?

By the way, Pol Pot was not communist, he murdered all the communists. But that part of the history you forgot.


Not a communist? I think there are a few million people who would disagree with you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

Pol Pot was never supported by the United States since he supported the North Vietnamese. Where do you get your history?

Common
10-28-2013, 03:00 PM
Kilgram I grew up in that time also and you are correct the Red threat was insidious at least we were told that daily. Taught in school to get under your desk put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye and hope you didnt miss.

The threat america faces today is from within. The few dumbadim nutcases that run their mouths incessantly and couldnt find a dog pile in a phone booth if it was at eye level and who blame the majority of americans for being unamerican. Need I say the teatards ? nah america knows right off now who

nathanbforrest45
10-28-2013, 03:34 PM
Pol Pot who was supported by USA, eh but USA is not a menace, however USA never supported any dictatorship, no?

Who is the menace?

By the way, Pol Pot was not communist, he murdered all the communists. But that part of the history you forgot.

Here is one more link to Pol Pot's communist link. I will say there is one factual error in this report. There has been absolutely no proof of any link between the CIA and Lon Nol's take over of Cambodia in 1970. That was a charge levied at the US but never proven. The rest, to my knowledge, ties in with what other reports have stated about the communist Pol Pot.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/pol-pot.htm