Propaganda in the Cold war

Before I babble on for five or six paragraphs about cold war propaganda I should probably give you some background on the cold war itself. For that task I decided to start with my textbook. The cold war was a very tense rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. It was essentially the battle between capitalism and communism. There was the also a severe threat of nuclear war. A very important part of the "war" was educating people. The best way to do this was through propaganda campaigns, and that's just what governments did.

I started where most 21^st century research starts. On google. I found a site with some great examples of book covers, posters, and comic books. The site linked to a comic book about the dangers of communism. It showed the origins and founder of Communism, a little of the Russian political history that sparked the rise of Communism, the number and type of people who were falling for communist promises, and what the promises were. It also discusses the way that Communist spies would infiltrate American schools and government. It goes over the three parts of the communist program, and gives us a detailed view of what would happen to the county and its people if the USA were to fall under communism. The comic also shows how the average American can join the fight against communism. They stress knowledge as the tool to beating communism.

Faith in God is a main focus in fighting communism. The comic was produced by the Christian anti-communism crusade (CACC). They say that faith in God is he best defense against communist lies. At the end of the comic there is a message from the CACC offering a pamphlet to get people into action. The also released another comic that focused on communism but it focused on public speeches.

At the end of the comic there was some information on the author. Australian Fred Schwarz founded the CACC. He used fear and religious patriotism to spur people to action against communism. He was famous during the 50s and 60s for his anti-communism work. He has done at least four other pamphlets on communism. His auto-biography was titled Beating the Unbeatable Foe: One Man’s Victory Against Communism, Leviathan and the Last Enemy.

The only thing I found trip to the library was a small picture in an annoyingly long book. The image is of a man standing on stacked boxes reading a speach. The boxes symbolize the countries under the communist regime. The countries make the communists more powerful and eventually powerful enough to be aggressive towards the united states.

I stumbled upon the Boston university site on a trip to the library. There was also anti-soviet/anti-communist propaganda in film and television. Rocky and Bullwinkle, a famous cartoon, taught hatred of communists on a subcocious level. They are the main antagonists of the cartoon. Going against the the home town heros makes them undesirable even to kids that are too young to understand the gravity of the cold war.






All photos are from Love Hate and Propaganda