The museum of propaganda

I was very happy when I first heard about the Museum of Censorship and its exhibitions of propaganda history. However, when I learned that the project is just a practice in graphic design, I realized that the museum has to be compiled by me. I have been doing this ever since. The following collection is only a small part of this ever growing museum, of all that is still waiting to be written. Look back often.

Ads in times of peace • Cartes de visite • Ottoman ads • Hungarian and French abstinence ads • Anna Csillag, apostle of hair growing • My first step for the Einem cakes • Marriage ad with wealth balance, 1907 National representation • “Palace of King Matthias” in Kassa, 1893-1943 • Coronation of the last Tsar, 1896 • The last Tsar in Paris, 1896 The first world war • Preparation for the war with paper soldiers • The Sarajevo assassination in the Russian press • The cut pages of the Sarajevo assassination • To my peoples • Long live the war! Soldier trains heading to the front • German and Hungarian soldiers leaving for excursion • The Pathé Brothers’ newsreel in peace and war • British and Russian war propaganda with children • German wartime children’s books • Bathing young Venus, a pleasure of children soldiers • The Krampus and the Red Devils on the front • Statues of a Hungarian and a Romanian war hero in the Carpathians • The Jews of Podhajce greeting Archduke Frederic, 1916 • The Jews of Kolomea greeting Emperor Charles, 1917 Treatises of Peace • The Hutsul Republic • Hungarian coat of arms on the Croatian Parliament, 1918 • The Moravians of Hultschin, who said no to Czechoslovakia • Pseudo-referendum on Subcarpathia The Mexican revolution • Revolutionary songs from Mexico (es) • José Guadalupe Posada, illustrator of the revolution (es) • Holy images of the revolution The birth of the Soviet Union • Photos of the February Revolution in the Dicescu collection • Retouched postcards of the February Revolution • Birth of the Soviet Union and the Council of People’s Commissars • Two New Years in Russia • Boris Kusztodiev’s processions • Boris Kusztodiev’s great leaps • Games of world revolutions for Soviet children • God is great and I’m not. Monumental statues • Tengri, the blue sky. Lenin’s head in the Altai • Lenin statues on Tsarist bases • Drawings of Soviet prisoners on Lenin • Day of Birds and other manifestations • Building and blowing up the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 1931 • Photo album of the victims of the Great Terror • 1 May 1935. Nikolai Ekk’s color film • The Russian Völkischer Beobachtung, 1935 • The snake in German-Russian propaganda • The great voyage from Tula to Moscow for 7 November 1937 • Good wishes for Stalin’s 60th birthday, 1939 Between two wars • Petr Leshchenko and he Russian homesickness (es) • Picture catechism with the Bernadette Method (es) • Polish abstinence posters • Old book posters from Lwów (es) • Lenin, Hitler and the children • Mussolini, Perón, Franco and the children (es) • The Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on the World Exhibition of 1937 (fr)

The second world war • Polish, German, two good friends. Cartoons, 1933-1939 • German and Soviet films on the oppressed Poland, 1941 (pl) • Soviet-German poster on bombing London • The Soviet-Nazi common parade in Brest, 1939 • British leaflets for Iran in the form of Persian miniatures • Soviet and German safe-conducts for the enemy • German, Italian and Soviet postcards from the front • Japanese wartime kimonos • Robert Capa’s photos on D-Day • Boris Kobe’s Dachau lager cards, 1945 (es) The Soviet Union’s war • The entrance of the Red Army to Lwów, and Dovzhenko’s propaganda film (es) • The swift water of Cheremosh. Dovzhenko’s propaganda film on Bukovina • Cernăuți 1939 – Черновиц 1940 • How they were – how they became. The Estonian government, 1940 • “Catching a language” on children’s postcard • Kill King Kong! • Evgeny Haldey’s wartime photos • Soviet and German safe-conducts for the enemy • German, Italian and Soviet postcards from the front • Triangular letter from the front • Song on Katyusha (ru az) • Victorious graffitis on the Reichstag The Nazi Germany • The Krumme Lanke housing estate for SS officers • The ideal Nazi family • Feasts in Nazi Germany • Nazi May Day, 1933 • Anna Csillag, master of Hitler • Hitler, candidate for Nobel Peace Award • Pétain’s apotheosis • Eiffel Tower, 1940 • German policemen with black captive • German soldiers’ photos from the Warsaw ghetto (es) • Johannes Hähle’s photos from the Eastern front: Kharkov, Lubny, Baby Yar • Photos from the German Kharkov • Nazi liberators’ memorial • Birth of the Tango of Death • On the birthday of the Generalgouvernement, 1941 • Easter 1942 in the occupied territories • An ordinary day in the German Kiev, 1942 • The Kiev death match, 1942 • The BBC’s lies on the Kiev death match, 2012 • Soviet and German safe-conducts for the enemy • German, Italian and Soviet postcards from the front • Nazi demoralizing leaflets for American and British soldiers Hungary in the war • Our man on the Russian front • Romanian reader for the Hungarians in the restored Transylvania • Hungarian boyscout on the front • Hand-drawn front postcards from Russia • Don. A tragedy and its afterlives Wartime talking • Russian phrasebook to occupy Estonia • German phrasebook for the Soviet army for a preventive blow, 1941 • An article confirming the existence of the Russian-German phrasebook of 1941 • German-Russian mechanical dictionary, 1940(?) (es) • German-Russian phrasebook for the Wehrmacht • Russian-German phrasebook on Nazi feasts, 1942 • Russian manual for Germans on prisoners’ camps • Romanian reader for the Hungarians in the restored Transylvania • Hungarian-Russian phrasebook on looting, 1942 • Hungarian phrasebook for a conversation with the Soviet liberators • Belgian phrasebook for a conversation with the Anglo-Saxon liberators

Postwar Soviet Union • Soviet abstinence posters (es) • Nyet! Metamorphoses of the 1954 abstinence poster • Abstinence posters in form of luboks • Russian, Nanai, two friends. Idealized relations in the Tales of Amur • Life exhibition of party photographer Viktor Ahlomov • Soviet flags in the Budapest Memento Park • Russian prison cards, 1967-81 • Moscow, May Day 1983 • Viktor Tsoi and the golden city • Night of the bards • Demolition of the Dzherzhinsky statue at the Lubyanka Hungarian socialism • Lenin Song or Funeral March. Metamorphoses of a song and of a figure • Captain Ostapenko’s statue • For the 60th birthday of Mátyás Rákosi, the Hungarian Stalin China • Mao with the Dalai Lama • Mao is alive. Photos of three generations • John Dominis’ photos in the socialist China Vietnam • Vietnamese leaflets for American soldiers Iran • Apotheosis of the Allies in the form of Persian miniatures • The political message of the beard • Elections in Iran, 2009 • It’s winter • Shajarian: Dawn bird • The dawn gives news Russia after the turn • Memories of the Soviet world in Alexandr Sennikov’s still lives • Front fighters’ vodka on Nazi model • The Russian embodiment of the ideal Nazi family • On the congress of the Russian Communist Party • Crisis calendar Mayakovsky-style • Anti-Coca-Cola calendar in the style of old Soviet posters • Great patriotic war against the Coca-Cola • Versions of the pointing recruiting posters • Pro-Stalin graffiti in Simferopol • Russia is for everyone. The multinational Russia, 2011 • Reality show: Common breakfast of Putin and Medvedev • After the Russian elections, 2011 • Stalin’s church cult in today’s Russia • Apocryphal icons in today’s Russia • May Day 2014 for Putin and the Soviet Union Ukraine after the turn • Glory to Ukraine. A Nazi pub at Lviv’s main square • Hitler, friend of the Aryan Ukraine • The Maydan of Kiev in the night of the revolution • The fall of the statues of Lenin in the Ukraine • Trizuby Stas: Twelwe Communists. A song for the fall of the statues of Lenin Mitteleuropa after the turn • Statue of Attila in Tulln • Slovakian mistranslations on Hungarian statues • War songs in the Balkans once and now • Red sludge of a past regime • Conspiracy of the two-tailed in Mallorca and Prague (es) • 2013, the crisis is over! • Tsar of the champagnes: the Soviet champagne • Magic crown in Dunakeszi, Hungary