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Are you shedding your blood to fatten him?
- Title:
- Are you shedding your blood to fatten him?
- Alternate Title:
- Are you shedding your blood to fatten him?
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1945
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 2043.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2043_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- World War II
Satirical
Pictorial
Unusual Graphics/Text
- Measurement:
- 14 x 19 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is a striking German propaganda leaflet intended to discourage British troops from fighting in support of their Soviet allies. Stalin is illustrated as a giant red pig, bloated by the blood of enemy soldiers. The USSR is colored the same deep red, with its alleged supporters shown in red-and-white cross hatching: China, India, Iran, Arabia, North Africa, Turkey, northern Sweden, southern Italy and all of France!
On the verso are quotes from the great and respected, including George Bernard Shaw, Mackenzie King and General Smuts. Most dramatic are those from the American diplomat Sumner Welles ("a German Europe could have been a matter of indifference to us, a Soviet Russian Europe under any circumstances could only be our enemy") and from Winston Churchill in 1919 ("I repeat: We cannot treat with Bolshevism.").
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.
