Chinese Propaganda from the ’40s and ’50s

by Joey deVilla on October 19, 2007

This LiveJournal entry has some interesting scans of Chinese propaganda pamphlets from the 1940s and 50s. Here’s an example:

Chinese propaganda pamphlets purporting to show the difference between Chinese and US flood management
Click to see the image at full size on its original page.

Although the illustration was made in 1951 and that’s supposed to be Harry S. Truman dancing on a cannon and waving a bomb while people drown and lose their homes, I can’t look at that image and not be reminded of the Hurricane Katrina debacle.

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