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World War II political cartoons. Low's cartoon Rendezvous. Political cartoons produced during World War II by both Allied and Axis powers commented upon the events, personalities and politics of the war. Governments used them for propaganda and public information. [dubious – discuss] Individuals expressed their own political views and ...
[146] [5] Richard Pipes wrote: "a major purpose of Soviet propaganda was arousing violent political emotions against the regime's enemies." [147] The most effective means to achieve this objective "was the denial of the victim's humanity through the process of dehumanization", "the reduction of real or imaginary enemy to a zoological state". [148]
In the Soviet Union, telling political jokes could be regarded as a type of extreme sport: according to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), "anti-Soviet propaganda" was a potentially capital offense. A judge walks out of his chambers laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the ...
Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture. [ 1] Historian Archie Brown sets the celebration of Stalin 's 50th birthday on 21 December 1929 as the starting point for his cult of personality. [ 2] For the rest of Stalin's rule, the Soviet propaganda presented Stalin as an all-powerful, all-knowing ...
Background. By the 1930s, propaganda was being used by most of the nations that join World War II. [ 1] Propaganda engaged in various rhetoric and methodology to vilify the enemy and to justify and encourage domestic effort in the war. A common theme was the notion that the war was for the defence of the homeland against foreign invasion.
v. t. e. A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism. Historically, "red scares" have led to mass political persecution, scapegoating, and the ousting of those in government positions who have had connections with left-wing to far-left ideology.
Politics of the Soviet Union. The Khrushchev Thaw (Russian: хрущёвская о́ттепель, romanized: khrushchovskaya ottepel, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ] or simply ottepel) [ 1] is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed due to Nikita Khrushchev ...
Agitprop ( / ˈædʒɪtprɒp /; [ 1][ 2][ 3] from Russian: агитпроп, romanized: agitpróp, portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" and propaganda, "propaganda") [ 4] refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. The term originated in the Soviet Union where it referred to popular media, such as literature, plays, pamphlets ...