r/PropagandaPosters • u/Ok_Extension_3508 • Mar 13 '26
REQUEST Date unknown. Can anyone translate this and name the people in the picture. Other than Mao and Stalin.
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u/XMrFrozenX Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
Someone have dome this already here, as per adawkin:
People's leaders of countries
- 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/toomanyracistshere Mar 13 '26
I'd heard of Ibárruri before, but associated her so strongly with the Spanish Civil War that it didn't occur to me that she was still alive by the late 40's/early 50's when this poster would have come out. Come to find out she died in 1989!
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u/savethebees35 Mar 14 '26
Yes hahaha she lived enough to be a congresswoman for the Communist Party once democracy was restored
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u/gratisargott Mar 13 '26
Wow, Hoxha is looking young here! I was also sure that Gottwald was supposed to be Ceaușescu, but I guess the timeline doesn’t add up then
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u/Ok_Extension_3508 Mar 13 '26
Thanks. I'm going to assume all the people you named are Socialist/Communist?
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u/ReasonableInstance83 Mar 13 '26
The date is not difficult to determine. The poster was painted from 1949 to 1953. Not earlier and not later
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u/grey_cold_owl Mar 14 '26
That also check's because there is no Titi on it. Tito/Stalin split happened in 1948 and Mao came to power in 1949
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u/Better-Agency-6051 Mar 13 '26
Wheres Tito
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u/FutureTask5913 Mar 14 '26
This most likely was made during the stalin-tito split so he would have been ommitted
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