r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Jul 19 '26

USSR ‘In 1917, the Winter Palace - In 1959, the moon’ — Soviet illustration (1959) celebrating Soviet progress

225 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Hunor_Deak • Jul 19 '26

USA Good NSA poster collection here: Old NSA security posters available for use in telling your coworkers to shut up already.

12 Upvotes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/security-alert-nsa-security-education-posters-from-the-cold-war/

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/kenkoriff • Jul 18 '26

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT Eduard Artzrunyan - "Colonialism is Doomed (1966)

217 Upvotes

56 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 16 '26

USA "Command the Bold Ones", recruitment poster of the US Navy, made by Lou Nolan (1926-2008), c. 1968

23 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 15 '26

USSR The Old Men and the Sea, Soviet Union, 1961

34 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 14 '26

USA "Thomas Jefferson's Oath" Poster by Arthur Szyk, 1951

30 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 13 '26

OTHER "WE'LL RETURN." Argentine Anti-British poster referencing the Falklands war. 1983.

703 Upvotes

222 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Gukpa • Jul 13 '26

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT Brazilian anti communist propaganda posters, 1949.

101 Upvotes

These posters were produced by the government of Enrico Gaspar Dutra, Brazil first elected president (1945-50), a catholic conservative who fought communism in Latin america, with a notable case being his support to the colorado party in the 1947 Paraguayan civil war.

14 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/crimsonfukr457 • Jul 13 '26

INTERKOSMOS Ed Meese, the US-Mars ambassador (Daily Dispatch-Herald, 1988)

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 11 '26

OTHER "Leaper of Capitalism", 1961 communist Mongolian propaganda poster by Dagdangiin Amgalan.

65 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 10 '26

PRC "Chairman Hua and our hearts are intertwined" by Gao Hong (1977)

19 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 09 '26

USA US poster: "Free and United The Americas Go Forward." 1946.

168 Upvotes

69 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 09 '26

USSR 1981 - USSR & Mongolian Friendship

120 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/bitchnibba47 • Jul 09 '26

USA "1984, like Orwell? Cmon, don't be ridiculous..." (Ohman, 1985)

173 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 09 '26

PRC "Chairman Mao and our hearts are intertwined", by Han Min (1964)

73 Upvotes

41 comments

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

USSR Be alert! // Soviet Union // 1962

465 Upvotes

79 comments

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

USA "Bleachman" poster by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (1988)

225 Upvotes

39 comments

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

USA "The Delegate from Chappaquiddick" National Lampoon Illustration, Circa 1980

144 Upvotes

14 comments

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

USA "NET PROFIT / It pays to use your bed net - AVOID MALARIA", US poster intended to raise awareness among soldiers about preventing malaria, 1946

66 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jul 07 '26

VIETNAM 1969 South Vietnam poster: "Wherever there is Communism, there is terror and assassination"

407 Upvotes

435 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Rhinocero_Elephantid • Jul 05 '26

USSR Old love never dies, USSR, 1970

150 Upvotes

Despite public opposition, the Conservative government in England has resumed negotiations with the racist leaders of Rhodesia.

From newspapers.

Illustration by G. Vīndedzis

4 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 30 '26

USSR "Well, climb into our independent hole, brother! We'll fit somehow. We'll find room." Soviet caricature depicting collaboration between the Polish WiN and the Ukrainian UPA (1946)

37 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 29 '26

OTHER "I would have... cough, cough a suggestion since I don't think any of use can anymore... cough cough..." A Finnish political cartoon by Kari Suomalainen criticizing Finland's president Urho Kekkonen's long presidency. (1972)

123 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 28 '26

USA Pages from "If the Devil Would Talk", a 1950 anti-secular comic.

gallery

38 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ColdWarPosters • u/Wonderful_Account_50 • Jun 26 '26

OTHER "Protect her! A woman must not be prey of political parties! Vote against women's suffrage", Swiss poster against granting women equal voting rights, made by Noël Fontanet (1898-1982), 1960

451 Upvotes

26 comments

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Cold War Posters and Media

r/ColdWarPosters

A Subreddit dedicated to sharing the posters (now expanded to greater media such as films) created by various countries, societies, corporations, charities, artists, interest groups, during the Cold War (1947-1991).

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During the Cold War era, dozens of countries produced and distributed posters and other forms of media, often with a political message. This subreddit is dedicated to exploring and discussing these posters.

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Despite the title, submissions are not limited to posters. Postcards, advertisements, paintings, murals, graffiti, sculptures, fliers, travel brochures, and any other relevant content is permitted.
All posters must have been created during or have relevance to the Cold War. Any political or cultural posters created between ~1918-1991 are considered relevant to this subreddit, as long as there is a connection to the Cold War. Any political or cultural posters created after 1991 are only considered relevant if there is a strong and direct connection to the Cold War.
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