#cold war era

Top Image:Chinese propaganda poster, 1951. Text reads: Long live the victory of the Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Volunteers Army!
Chaoxian renminjun zhongguo renmin zhiyuanjun shengli wansui! (朝鲜人民军中国人民志愿军胜利万岁！)
Publisher: Beijing renmin meishu chubanshe (北京人民美术出版社)
Size: 59x79 cm.

Bottom Image: US Army Psychological Warfare Operations (PSYOP) propaganda pamphlet, 195-?. Sketch of two Communist Chinese Force soldiers enjoying a hearty meal while a Korean mother, her child, and an old man go without food and a soldier is helpless to aid them. Caption with cartoon states, “Protectors or Conquerors?” - translation of Korean text taken from documentation sheet.

Propaganda materials from the Korean War illustrate the conflicts and powers at play from all sides. Here, the first image is produced by Chinese propaganda publishers, illustrating Chinese military support for the Korean People’s Army (North Korea). On the flip side, the second image (produced by US Army PSYOPs) implicates the Chinese Army as yet another conqueror of the Korean people. 

Both the Chinese and US Armies utilized propaganda which attacked the other side as imperialists, aggressors, and conquerors, as seen here:

Designer: Xu Ling (徐灵)
ca. 1950
The Chinese people absolutely cannot condone the encroachment of other countries, and cannot listen to whatever Imperialist who thinks that it can wantonly encroach its own neighbours without acting
Zhongguo renmin jue bu neng rongren waiguode qinlüe, ye bu neng ting ren diguo zhuyizhe dui ziji linren sixing qinlüe er zhizhi buli (中国人民决不能容忍外国的侵略，也不能听任帝国主义者对自己邻人肆行侵略而直之不理)