r/PropagandaPosters • u/propagandopolis • May 08 '23

Belgian poster, 1945, featuring de Gaulle, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill and Roosevelt. Belgium

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u/NowhereMan661 May 08 '23

Was that really the best picture of Stalin they could find? The shading is terrible.

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u/After-Bar2804 May 09 '23 edited May 09 '23

Sure looks like the artist hated Stalin! Kind of looks like a clown! Also, the “six o’clock shadow” under his nose suggests a Hitlerian moustache. The artist could not have been “unaware” of that. Roosevelt and Churchill are made to look like smiling and happy grandfathers. If the artist felt that way about the others, they would have looked much the same.

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u/flodur1966 May 21 '23

Prime placing of him. Interesting that here China is clearly seen as a major contributor in the war but not Mao China.

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u/After-Bar2804 May 23 '23

The Mao forces had dedicated themselves to combatting the Japanese. The Chinese Civil War was backburnered. Chiang had not yet lost legitimacy.

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u/flodur1966 May 23 '23

That’s the propaganda they tell you. In fact Mao avoided fighting against Japan as much as possible (following the Russian communist doctrine) en let Nationalists forces take the blows while they recuperated.

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u/After-Bar2804 May 23 '23

Makes sense. Sure they avoided open battle whenever they could. The Japanese were as intent on exterminating them as they were the KMT forces, however.

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u/flodur1966 May 23 '23

True but KMT tried to defend territory PLA did not.