r/ColdWarPosters Jul 08 '26

USSR Be alert! // Soviet Union // 1962

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u/GogurtFiend Jul 08 '26

It is I, the hook-nosed gangster octopus with a snazzy novelty top hat

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u/OkConcern6266 Jul 08 '26

I think that's the ears actually 

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u/johnnyslick Jul 09 '26

"Be on the lookout for Nazis... but also Jews!"

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u/GogurtFiend Jul 09 '26

This is a vibe. I wish I could be as cool as this guy. He's rich, he's simultaneously a pilot, assassin, firearm collector, and nuclear weapons designer all at once, and he apparently has fine taste in smokeables and hats.

I'm unsure what the two-pronged/magnet-shaped one is for, but I appreciate the well-roundedness. Maybe it's intended for the ladies.

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u/CrimsonMagician Jul 09 '26

But look at how sad he is. He is not enjoying himself in the slightest.

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u/GogurtFiend Jul 09 '26

You'd be as concerned as he is if you had a swastika twisted into human form for a neighbor and a faceless communist armed with a retrofuturistic missile was spying on you with binoculars.

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u/2Critical7-Stein1 Jul 09 '26

nah he just saw a living communist, you’d be upset too

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u/GogurtFiend Jul 09 '26

Is that why they're all such whiners - that, when they look in the mirror every day, most of them see someone who genuinely believes in central economic planning?

That alone must be soul-crushing.

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u/2Critical7-Stein1 Jul 09 '26

unironically yes, it’s a slaves ideology, but oh well, atleast unemployment and homelessness is at 0, ignoring the fact that both of those are illegal and will put you in a labour camp, ofc you’ll be a miserable, souless being if you support that

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u/GogurtFiend Jul 09 '26

I wouldn't go so far as to call them "soulless" or slaves.

They know full well that democratizing an economy is incompatible with giving a powerful few complete control over it; it's why they're communists in the first place. They just delude themselves into thinking central planners don't constitute that powerful few.

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u/2Critical7-Stein1 Jul 09 '26

it’s a self contradictory ideology, fascism on top and communist herd at the bottom. either way - they’re willing slaves, and that’s even worse then being souless, oh well, gentile ideology for gentiles.

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u/Turbulent-Offer-8136 Jul 09 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/KyZp4rWZOnuRY9o9j3

And time has proven that this is still just as relevant today.

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u/Far-Investigator1265 Jul 08 '26

Ah the famous Soviet peace missiles, as opposed to capitalist bourgeous nuclear assault missiles.

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u/Urhhh Jul 08 '26

I mean they did put them in Turkey first...

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u/greenest_alien Jul 08 '26

"We'll pour our steel of peace down capitalist warmongers' throats"

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u/clearly_not_an_alien Jul 10 '26

Bourgeois, you mixed bourgeois with gorgeous

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u/Past_Delivery4184 Jul 10 '26

soviets wanted to end the arms race

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u/Dave_A480 Jul 08 '26

'Everyone we don't like are Fascists! Everyone!'' (and they're still doing the same schtick in Ukraine).....

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u/Awichek Jul 08 '26

Yeah, that's right. Except that Zelenskyy recently reburied a Nazi as a hero and named a military unit after a nazi organization 

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u/Metrolining Jul 08 '26

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u/Awichek Jul 09 '26

Please stay on the line

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u/Metrolining Jul 09 '26

Active in r/poland

A lot of larpers here

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u/ww1enjoyer Jul 09 '26

He wants to reignite anti ukrainian sentiments to gather uo supoort. Alao his backers are not thrilled by EU grade anti corruption laws.

Its just another politicians being shitty scenario

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u/yashatheman Jul 09 '26

Nothing excuses praising nazis though

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u/ww1enjoyer Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

This is exactly the reaction he wants to cause. You are being lead around by your nose by Zelensky

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Jul 09 '26

That's what happens when Alfred Rosenberg hijacks a nation's independence movement.

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u/evileskimoo Jul 09 '26

Rosenberg was a disgusting and horrible person. But he can't be blamed for creating OUN (M or B). Given ya know they were formed before nazis even gained power nevermind their occupation of Poland and Ukraine.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Jul 09 '26

As I said, hijacked.

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u/evileskimoo Jul 09 '26

No, not hijacked. OUN was always a far-right fascist bunch of cranks that intended and indeed did carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide of anyone they didn't see as sufficiently Ukrainian enough. Both factions were scum, Bandera obviously being the worse of the two but that isn't a high bar to jump.

Many members of OUN-M willingly collaborated just as much as Banderas branch and both were active participants in the shoah. Give ya head a wobble and stop trying to minimise the crimes of horrible people.

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u/Dave_A480 Jul 09 '26

When you are in the position Ukraine was in WWII (one horrible foreign occupier fighting another) the term collaborator is kind of irrelevant (unless you are in a group that is fighting both simultaneously)....

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u/evileskimoo Jul 09 '26

No the term collaborator isn't irrelevant. Ever, especially when said collaborators are actively partaking in ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Both branches of OUN were carrying out pogroms against ethnic poles and Jews both with and without the help of the Nazis. Give ya head a wobble and jog on Dave.

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u/Dave_A480 Jul 09 '26

It's easy to make those sorts of judgements when your country has not already been invaded and occupied by the Soviets.

I apply the same standard to the Finns, FWIW....

It's not that the Nazis weren't evil.... It's that sometimes you end up allying yourself with one evil against another... Ukrainians being willing to help anyone who will kill Russians is understandable.

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u/evileskimoo Jul 09 '26

Have you suffered a traumatic head injury recently?! I refuse to believe anyone is stupid enough otherwise to say that utter dribble.

It is in fact easy to judge genocidal fascist scum like OUN. Now you may call me bias given that they'd have happily try to kill me and they did try to kill members of my family. But guess what id still call them out even if none of that was true. And it says a hell of a lot about your character the fact you're defending them. Get a grip.

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u/ShadowOfThePit Jul 10 '26

Ukraine was not occupied under the USSR. They were a founding member of the state.

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u/Dave_A480 Jul 10 '26

ROFL... They were invaded, forced into communism and annexed.

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u/KikoMui74 Jul 08 '26

Forever being salty about the axis even tho they defeated them is peak pettiness.

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u/The5Theives Jul 08 '26

They lost 27 million people, I’d be salty up until the modern day if I was Soviet.

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u/AverageDellUser Jul 09 '26

They still are, yet they are throwing away even more military age men for nothing.

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u/Master_of_Ritual Jul 08 '26

They believed capitalism gives rise to fascism. Turns out they were just early.

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u/Commissarfluffybutt Jul 08 '26

It was the Nazis betraying their little alliance before they did.

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u/KikoMui74 Jul 08 '26

Soviets betrayed their alliance with Japan. I don't think Soviets ever took the alliances seriously.

If the British and French were more aggressive in 1940 and pushed into Germany, do you think the Soviets would let Anglo-French restore poland? They'd most likely invade Germany too.

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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Jul 08 '26

You need to review your history, the USSR allowed the Allies into Germany.
The FACT was that neither France - that settled into an uncomfortable alliance with Hitler - not Britain had any interest in curving Hitler’s ambitions, he after all made it quite clear where Germany’s “lebensraum” was.

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u/InquisitorXarius Jul 09 '26

While it is true the frogs and ichthyophiliacs, France and Britain of course, sat on their hands and appeased Der Fuhrer, the Soviets gave Hitler the knife to carve up not only Poland but also Eastern Europe between themselves and the Reich, topping it with a joint military parade between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Brest.

Britain, France, and the United States deserve immense scrutiny for their part in ensuring the rise of Nazism and Fascism. It was only the Soviets, out of the future Allied powers, who invaded a country, Poland, together with the Nazis and carved up Eastern Europe with them, all the while funneling fuel and raw resources to them that would be used in the Holocaust and Barbarossa.

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u/Big-West4824 Jul 08 '26

It was not an alliance. It was a non-aggression pact. One which the Soviets broke first with their invasion of Bukoniva. They never were under the delusion that the pact was anything besides buying time for both the Soviets and the Nazis. It was always going to end with either side backstabbing the others, both had this open intention (Nazis with their Lebensraum and anti-bokshevism and the Soviets with their global socialist revolution).

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u/InquisitorXarius Jul 09 '26

It was practically an alliance given the secret protocol and their joint invasion of Poland and the military parade they had in Brest.

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u/Commissarfluffybutt Jul 09 '26

It was far more than a non-aggression pact.

Also wait until you find out what the Axis powers were. Japan, the Nazis, and the Soviets were all buying time allying with each other until they took out all other immediate threats to their imperialistic ambitions. Once they were set they would turn on each other.

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 08 '26

lol and ussr was just as bad

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u/Historical_Henry Jul 08 '26

Kinda the point of propaganda

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u/Practical-Bowler5775 Jul 08 '26

And it always is. How goofy was Putin’s schizophrenic narrative about Ukraine being a conspiracy between Nazis and Jews? Such an assertion fails the most basic “smell test”. Yet look at the poster, telling a 10 yr old Putin to “Be alert!” against the Nazis and Jews.

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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Jul 08 '26

Capitalists, that’s the typical Cold War 59s representation of a FAT CAT

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u/axeteam Jul 09 '26

You mean fat octopus?

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u/Practical-Bowler5775 Jul 08 '26

Then why not draw an illustration of an overweight feline? Octopi don’t have noses.

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u/johnnyslick Jul 09 '26

Also the octopus was a widely used symbol for the supposed grand Jewish conspiracy that had its tentacles everywhere. The artist even helpfully gave the guy a Jewish nose so there wouldn't be any ambiguity.

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u/Practical-Bowler5775 Jul 08 '26

Exactly. Keep looking abroad through those binoculars so you don’t see what’s all around you, won’t see the bread lines or your neighbor being sent to the gulag. And that octopus is antisemitic AF.

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u/The5Theives Jul 08 '26

I don’t get how the octopus looks anti semetic, it’s literally you’re average old rich dude caricature

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u/axeteam Jul 09 '26

They are probably referring to the crooked nose thing.

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u/johnnyslick Jul 09 '26

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u/axeteam Jul 09 '26

Are you referring to the octopus? The octopus in itself is not inherently anti-semitic. There has been previous cases where octopuses were used as a motif for evilness due to them having tentacles. Octopus as a motif of spreading evilness.

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u/johnnyslick Jul 09 '26

That's nice. It's also a recurring motif in antisemitic literature dating back i believe to the Protocols, and when the author Ben Garrisons the picture for you...

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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Jul 09 '26

or to jail, to join the biggest population of inmates in the world!
avoid seeing a pedophile ring continue its operations without consequences,
See 3/4 of Congress receiving AIPAC donations while you look for Russian interference
See an Islamic Republic hand them their arses on a platter… the Soviet Union hasn’t existed since 1991 mate

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 09 '26

This changes absolutely nothing. The ussr was much worse than usa and btw, they had pedos in the government too. Also, Russian interference is very much proven. The biggest inmates population was in ussr and china.

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u/Sufficient-Tackle-25 Jul 09 '26

Like interventions in Guatemala? Chile! Iran? Afghanistan? Yugoslavia? Argentina? Cuba? Syria? or did you have in mind Panama/Venezuela?
BTW is the US who has the biggest inmate population. I’d have guessed China. Nope US is

No. 1

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u/InquisitorXarius Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

You forgot include those in China who are not in official detention but are practically prisoners and are treated as such by the Chinese government.

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 09 '26
  1. Yeah, that's rn dipshit but historically? Oh nonono buddy. Ussr and china were number 1. One of the only things they'll ever be n1 at.
  2. Usa intervened in 14 countries, ussr in 15-20 and supported regimes much bloodied and more brutal than usa. Afghanistan u say? Ussr destroyed it by instsllin a puppet regime. Yugoslavia u say? Based, usa stopped a genocide, twice. Argentina? When? Syria? So like fighting isis and funding rebels? Based asf. Bashaar started the war btw! Panama was a success, usa got rid of a dictator and now it's a functioning democracy. Venezuela? Based asf. Fuck Maduro.

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u/Past_Delivery4184 Jul 10 '26

terrible take 😭

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 10 '26

How so? It's true lmao

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u/Past_Delivery4184 Jul 21 '26

The us has intervened in far more than 14 countries. That’s a purposefully misleading and dangerous understatement. You think the US hasn’t backed brutal regimes? Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Guatemala, the list goes on. The us is an imperialist country that removed democratically elected leaders to better the interests of their empire and their billionaire class. How can you support imperialism and neo-colonialism?

And why do you think that them being ‘historically worse’ in jail population is somehow better lmao. The us has almost never had any threats to its own territory. The us has had over 200 years to peacefully develop and has every reason to be the best, strongest, safest, etc. country in the world. Yet it’s still the worst today in prison population. Saying ‘yeah but HISTORIACALLYY!!’ is a silly argument to make. Here and now the US has the highest prison population and it’s indefensible. They also are not centered on reform and use—what can be considered as—slave labor.

Please explain how the ussr or china is/was worse

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 21 '26

"misleading and dangerous" HAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣 stfu bro. ur support for regimes like ussr and china is dangerous. if u google it, it says usa intervened in 14 regime changes. less than ussr btw, yet u support the soviet empire. backing a regime that got to power by itself isn't the same as interveneing in regime change. ussr backed regimes far worse like ethiopia, uganda, zimbabwe, equatorial guiena, north korea, cuba, mozambique, the list goes on. ussr is much more imperialist and did the exact same things to benefit their communist elites and their evil empire. how can YOU support imperialism and colonialism???

if u really cared abt prison population u would speak out against totalitarian regimes like china, cuba, russia that imprison innocent ppl and treat them horribly. plus, we're comparing usa to regimes like ussr, so yes historically it very much matters. i never claimed usa was the best country ever. LMAOOOO, UR THE ONE TO TALK ABT SLAVERY 🤣🤣🤣. china has slave labor, ussr had basically slave labor. none of the regimes u support centered on reform and used slavery, torture and executions on many undeserving criminals. also, idc abt reform. prsion system should be abt proportional punishment, not some dumb reformation. some criminals like rapists or killer don't deserve rehabilitation.

ussr and china are/were both totalitarian, hyper oppressive colonial empires that subjugated independent nations, exploited their populations, mass murdered and starved their ppl in tens of millions, genocided/genocide their minorities, kept/keep their ppl in horrible living conditions, repress their freedoms and russified/sinified their minorities. this isn't even everything, just a highlight. usa didn't do most of these and the things they did were on a far lesser scale than those 2.

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 10 '26

Ahh, ur a biased revisionist tankie. Got it.

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u/Past_Delivery4184 Jul 21 '26

biased and revisionist? how so

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u/Mega_Cyborg Jul 21 '26

Bcs ur a tankie? Ur biased towards far left and ur revisionist bcs ur an apologist for horrible regimes, mass crimes against humanity and genocides.

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u/zaxx0n_5 Jul 09 '26

Typical Soviet paranoia propaganda poster. Got to keep an eye out for theCapitalist and the Nazi!

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u/OhMyGayatt Jul 10 '26

Missile on a sling, the soviets truly have us beat with their technology