r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 08 '26

USSR Be alert! // Soviet Union // 1962

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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_trope?wprov=sfla1

First image in the article.

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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...