Propaganda

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their emotions. During the Cold War, American anti-communist propaganda saturated literature was spread out through churches and schools. [2]
For examples, the most influence for the Soviet propaganda was the posters. These posters focused the achievements of Russian communists politically, economically, and technologically. The American capitalist was portrayed as a large, plump old man dressed in a tuxedo and hat. Typical actions of the capitalist in Soviet posters were him withholding grain from hungry peasants or running over children with his shiny car. It attacked the benefits of the wealthy that result from capitalism, and other posters showed the effects of capitalism on poverty. [3]
An example for poster, Fire, was created in June 17, 1949 in the Washington Post. "The fear-filled forties and fifties were a dark period when the spread of communism abroad increased anxieties and frustration at home," wrote Herb Block. In their zeal to stamp out all signs of subversion ...

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