I love propaganda! I love PR work, and I especially enjoy reading and watching posters from propaganda in the past! The Chinese and Nazi German works are the most famous, and of course there is Iraq’s during Saddam’s era!

The Chinese works always show as a people’s leader, the man who is loved by everyone and who is their saviour and hero, giving them everything they need to be happy!

These are some examples of propaganda posters of the time -

I have this excellent book that has all the posters from the Chinese propaganda minds.

One of the most famous pics of propaganda was General Mao swimming accros the river -

Doesn’t this remind you of another famous picture of a leader swimming??

You guessed it! The one and only Saddam! He took a page from Mao’s book, he actually took alot more, his propaganda team tried to show him not only as a leader, but as THE hero!

In the first picture, Saddam is on a horse holding a sword, heading towards alQuds. He is the Salahuldein, the saviour who brought back alQuds to the Muslims.

Look at the second picture, with Saddam’s face near another face, which is Nebuchadnezzar, the old Babylon king who kicked out the Jews back in the day!

Not too subtle, but to the point, and that was his message, that he is the saviour for Islam and the Arabs, and unfortunately, we have enough idiots in our world to believe that!

All these propaganda posters are very similar and intersting, in trying to get a message through. My favourite form of propaganda has to be the German Nazi propaganda material. Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister then, has to be one of the best weapons Germany had at the time! Their message wasn’t on showing Hitler as a hero, as much as showing the threats from the Jews and the weakness of the other leaders and countries, as well as saying that Hitler’s aim of giving supreme power to the Aryan race was good and that you wanted to be part of that elite club!

As well as Hitler as the giver, growing seeds of peace supposedly in this poster -

Alot of the posters done for Nazi Germany at the time were very cool in an modern art kind of way! Its like a bunch of artists on drugs were doing them -

In this cartoon, the truth on its head when the US is talking!

This, by far, has to be the coolest election poster ever made -

This is from the 1932 elections.

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This could go on forever, but its a taste of how important and nice propaganda is!

In Kuwait, there is alot of this propaganda in our daily newspapers, sometimes its subtle, sometimes its pretty obvious. Especially take notice of AlWatan and how they show Ahmad AlFahad, it really is interesting sometimes!