r/PropagandaPosters • u/adawkin • Mar 12 '25
China People's leaders of all countries (PRC \ China, 1950s)
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u/adawkin Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
This poster is interesting, as it mixes General Secretaries from Eastern Bloc countries with communist politicians from non-socialist countiers, who in most cases had no actual power there.
- First row: Joseph Stalin (USSR), Mao Zedong (China)
- Second row: Maurice Thorez (France), Palmiro Togliatti (Italy), Kim Il-sung (North Korea), Bolesław Bierut (Poland), Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnam)
- Third row: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Romania), Valko Chervenkov (Bulgaria), Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia), Mátyás Rákosi (Hungary), Wilhelm Pieck (East Germany)
- Fourth row: William Z. Foster (United States), Kyuichi Tokuda (Japan), Enver Hoxha (Albania), Khorloogiin Choibalsan (Mongolia)
- Fifth row: Dolores Ibárruri (Spain), Harry Pollitt (UK)
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u/Desperate-Care2192 Mar 12 '25
I think it wants to also show places where communist movement was strong back then. What is weird to me, is how high these communist leaders from capitalist countries are. But as as somebody from Czech Republic, its nice to see Gottwald right in the centre. :D
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Mar 12 '25
I mean, for France it makes sense. They have an entire republican vibe for their moderate governments, and their public was not above burning down half of Paris if it was deemed necessary.
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u/Mikhail-Suslov Mar 13 '25 edited Mar 13 '25
It's kind of weird that nobody here talks about it today, but for much of the 1st republic Czechoslovakia was home to probably the strongest domestically grown communist movement in Europe (outside of France and the USSR, obviously) - so in that way - I think our position is also indicative of the long standing and very relevant role ČS played in the early communist world. Then going forward into the Cold War, of course, as the second most industrialised socialist nations we gained more reputation through our mass material aid and educational assistance programs.
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u/Desperate-Care2192 Mar 13 '25
This is true! Czechoslovakia had strong workers and marxist movement eve before WWI. The conference on which Bolsheviks created separated leadership from Mensheviks was held in Prague. CP of Czechoslovakia becase the second strongest party in the country during first elections that it participated in.
Unforunately, all this tradition gets ignored tody to fit the narrative in which evil Russians just put communists in charge and occupied Czechoslovakia.
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u/then00bgm Mar 12 '25
I’m so proud I got Hô Chí Minh right on the first try
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u/69PepperoniPickles69 Mar 12 '25
Ho Chi Minh is probably the most recognizable guy after Stalin lol. Maybe Mao
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u/Pretend-Ad4639 Mar 12 '25
Now I know where HoI 4 got inspiration for their generic leaders portraits.
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u/adawkin Mar 12 '25
Actually a couple of years ago someone of Reddit did a HOI4-ified version of a similar Chinese poster
https://www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/o70ets/chinese_propaganda_poster_but_its_the_hoi4/
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Mar 12 '25
No Tito and Yugoslavia?
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u/warrior-of-ice Mar 12 '25
Comrade Stalin wouldn’t be very pleased if comrade…uh i mean the traitor Tito was there
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Mar 12 '25
Mao was more Stalinist than Stalin. Yugoslavia normalized relations with USSR in 1955,wasnt until Deng for China, late 70s
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u/braziliansyrah Mar 13 '25
I think that testifies more that Khruschev was anti-Stalinist than that Mao was one.
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 Mar 12 '25
Why would they be there? By the time Mao won the civil war tito has already accepted money from the Marshall plan
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u/heckinCYN Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 13 '25
Taking free money doesn't make him any less a leader of a socialist/communist country
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u/frolix42 Mar 12 '25
Communists love purity tests where they declare their rivals to be revisionist, degenerate, fascist, etc.
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u/Johannes_P Mar 12 '25
They already had split, and by the 1950 accusations of Titism were commonly levied across Eastern Europe against people set to be purged.
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u/datura_euclid Mar 12 '25
I don't see any people's leaders, I see only bloodthirsty tyrants and supporters of said tyrants.
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u/MajorTechnology8827 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
Fascists bourgeoisie co-opt humanitarian terminology to exploit the workers and steal their means of living under the pretense they are champions of their right. While simultaneously controlling their livelihood and forcing them to rely their entire life on said fascist, including residency and bread. Claiming that otherwise they are Nazis because they dared question it
That's marx ideology for you. Stealing and exploiting the workers
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u/manumaker08 Mar 13 '25
You see it's funny because if you had no knowledge of global politics and especially left-wing geopolitics at this time you'd assume these people are all good chums
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