30 Of The Best Historic Propaganda Visuals As Shared By This Dedicated Online Community

 Propaganda has been a powerful tool used throughout history. But how does it really work? And is it only used to trick people into believing certain things? When we hear about it, do we think only about past historic events or can we think of an example of seeing propaganda in today’s world? 

Propaganda can be spread through books, movies, images, and other sources that reach mass audiences. Its primary goal is to change people’s views and opinions. After important events that changed the world’s history, propaganda started to carry a rather negative connotation. But it can also be used to spread positive messages and embrace necessary changes.

. The pictures depict very recent events, so it’s no trouble for people to understand what is the hidden meaning behind them. But what about some of the older propaganda images? Are we able to decipher those? 

A subreddit called Propaganda Posters with 415k members shares various posters and pamphlets that show how propaganda was spread during various periods of time. These images depict and help to understand some historical events better with their symbolic drawings, call-to-action messages, and well-portrayed stereotypes.

 

A Known Classic That Never Seems To Age. Date Unknown (1920s?)

 

Help Keep Your School All American! [1950]

 

We Don’t Always March Straight, Swedish Armed Forces Gay Pride Poster, 2018

 

Anti-Vac Comic From The 1940s. Stupidity Is Timeless.

 

Barbarity vs. Civilization, By René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1899

 

Poster Distributed By Youthbuilders, The Student Group From New York City's Ps 43, To Protest Segregated Blood Banks, Produced In 1945.

American Freedom. Soviet Union, 1960s

 

Anti-American Poster, Ussr, 1960

 

Dc Statehood Poster (2006)

 

"News-Leak Embarrasses White House" 1972.

 

The Only Good Nazi Is A Dead Nazi 1945

 

"The First Lesson" - Ussr, 1964.

 

This Patient Is Hopeless. He Was Diagnosed With A Complete Lack Of Dollars. Soviet Union, 1950s

 

"Basement With Supplies" / Ussr, 1973

 

"Evolution?" // Anti- Nuclear War Poster (1970s Ussr)

 

“Rationing Means A Fair Share For All Of Us” - USA, 1940s

 

“...they Don’t Really Seem To Know Why They Are Protesting!” USA, 2011

 

"Nuclear War", Soviet Union, C. 1980s

 

United States During World War I (1917)

 

Brazilian Cartoon On Us Presidential Election 2008

Pro-Child Labor Poster ~1915

 

"Telling A Friend May Mean Telling The Enemy" - UK, Wwii.

 

"Tax The Loafer - Not The Loaf" - Britain, 1920s

"Don't Throw Stones", Iraq, 2004

 

2009 Net Neutrality Poster

 

1900s, Anti-Feminist Poster.

 

"Diplomacy, The American Way", Ussr, 1986

 

Hitler Youth Poster (1930s) And American Meat Industry Poster (1980s)

 

Don't Go To Spain (UK, 1970s)

 

Hoarders, Panic Buyers, Shame On You! (Nazi Germany, 1942)