1961 Treasure Chest Comic: "This Godless Communism"

[Czar]

http://www.authentichistory.co...re_chest/cover_01.html

quuiiiite interesting

 

[chess9]

So, they go to church after the U.S. has been taken over by the Commies?

Bwuahahahahaha!

But, yeah, this was the kind of fear mongering JEH and much of the media promoted. People complain about the media rolling over for Bush's Iraq war, well they did the same for Hoover's war.

-Robert

 

[Forsythe]

Communism, a threat to liberty??? Well that's a new one.

You were severely frightened of communism back then, that's why you went to Vietnam and Korea, and that's why you bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. it was all a matter of politics, explaining the fear shown in this cartoon, you just needed someone to fear.

 

[Colt45]

Some people still buy it too.

 

[Infohawk]

This is hilaaaaaaarious. Great post.

Backwards reasoning reminds me of the neo-mccarthyites that support Bush.

"And we know God exists too, we have many proofs." LOL

 

[Steeplerot]

IN SOVET RUSSIA COMIC READS YOU!

 

[Infohawk]

At the end of the series there's a great explanation of why "we hate" communism. One reason is because they don't accept god. What a loving group of people the theocro-fascists are...

 

[0marTheZealot]

lol communism is a type of economic policy, not a political one.

 

[ViRGE]

Lol, I love the red arm bands.

 

[earthman]

All your buildings and children are belong to us.

 

[LtPage1]

they left out any bits of information that might hurt the propaganda (like how czarist russia was arguably worse than soviet russia), but overall pretty good stuff.

 

[dmcowen674]

OK folks you are obviously confused especially because of all the references to Nazi Germany before the election.

It is more a cross between the two (Communism and Nazism) the U.S. is becoming.

One is the Communism affect that Corporations owning the Government.

The Nazi affect is the Religious Radical Right of you're either with us or against us, it is much more inclusive as far as the variety of Religions taking part in this Vs the egotistic Hitler that felt the Jewish Religion and race were inferior to him and must be erradicated.

 

[Infohawk]

Bump for a hilarious cartoon...

Not suprising if the "under god" portion of the pledge of allegiance was added during this time...

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Lol, I love the red arm bands.

Red arm bands? WTF does the US civil war have to do with this?

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
OK folks you are obviously confused especially because of all the references to Nazi Germany before the election.

It is more a cross between the two (Communism and Nazism) the U.S. is becoming.

One is the Communism affect that Corporations owning the Government.

The Nazi affect is the Religious Radical Right of you're either with us or against us, it is much more inclusive as far as the variety of Religions taking part in this Vs the egotistic Hitler that felt the Jewish Religion and race were inferior to him and must be erradicated.

Amerika über alles?

 

[jlmadyson]

Communism, a threat to liberty??? Well that's a new one.

Tell that to Vasily F. Romashkin

He recalled having to dig trenches in permafrost, 6 feet by 6 feet, for the foundations of Norilsk's metal plants. For much of the year prisoners worked in unbearable cold, dressed in padded cotton uniforms, their hands and feet wrapped in rags. On the coldest days they received 3.5 ounces of pure alcohol and a piece of ham.

Liberty at it's finest.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson

Communism, a threat to liberty??? Well that's a new one.

Tell that to Vasily F. Romashkin

He recalled having to dig trenches in permafrost, 6 feet by 6 feet, for the foundations of Norilsk's metal plants. For much of the year prisoners worked in unbearable cold, dressed in padded cotton uniforms, their hands and feet wrapped in rags. On the coldest days they received 3.5 ounces of pure alcohol and a piece of ham.

Liberty at it's finest.

Many people would say that what was practiced in the Soviet Union was not communism, but Stalinism or something else.

 

[jlmadyson]

Originally posted by: Infohawk

Originally posted by: jlmadyson

Communism, a threat to liberty??? Well that's a new one.

Tell that to Vasily F. Romashkin

He recalled having to dig trenches in permafrost, 6 feet by 6 feet, for the foundations of Norilsk's metal plants. For much of the year prisoners worked in unbearable cold, dressed in padded cotton uniforms, their hands and feet wrapped in rags. On the coldest days they received 3.5 ounces of pure alcohol and a piece of ham.

Liberty at it's finest.

Many people would say that what was practiced in the Soviet Union was not communism, but Stalinism or something else.

Liberty, once again it's finest.

?Listening to their stories, it?s horrific,? said David Hawk, a veteran human rights campaigner and a consultant for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson

What did that have to do with my post? Or did you press quote instead of reply by accident?

 

[Commodus]

I think you're introducing a sort of red herring here, jlmadyson - the point is not so much to excuse everything Soviet-style communist countries did, but to point out that the comic (and indeed, the US government of the time) engaged in an over-simplistic portrayal of what communism was.

Basically, the US was (and in some senses, still is) denying freedom under the guise of protecting it. Just ask the South Vietnamese who were forced to endure the Catholicization of their country while the US propped up the government that (of their own volition, mind you, not the US') made this happen. Those Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire weren't doing so just because they were cranky...

 

[tallest1]

good read


Makes me wonder what an anti-terrorist comic would look like

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: 0marTheZealot
lol communism is a type of economic policy, not a political one.

No socialism is a economic policy. Communism is a political, economic and cultural policy which builds off socialism and takes it to extremes.

 

[jlmadyson]

Originally posted by: Commodus
I think you're introducing a sort of red herring here, jlmadyson - the point is not so much to excuse everything Soviet-style communist countries did, but to point out that the comic (and indeed, the US government of the time) engaged in an over-simplistic portrayal of what communism was.

Basically, the US was (and in some senses, still is) denying freedom under the guise of protecting it. Just ask the South Vietnamese who were forced to endure the Catholicization of their country while the US propped up the government that (of their own volition, mind you, not the US') made this happen. Those Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire weren't doing so just because they were cranky...

Communism, a threat to liberty??? Well that's a new one.

No, I was questioning this statement. I see no liberty in the acts I've pointed out.