USA - Of Course I Can

Make It Do – Rationing of Canned Goods in World War II.

Am I Proud? I'm Fighting Famine by Canning Food at Home - WWII War Propaganda.

Thanks Nikki,  it would be great if the card were sent from US.

 

RUSSIA - Night won’t prevent us from working, 1956

Thanks to Darya for the card.
Boris Reshetnikov, Alexander Dobrov. 1956.
Night won't prevent us from working! As farmers till the land with tractors.
Soviet Russian propaganda poster warning that, 'Night won't prevent us from working! As farmers till the land with tractors.

RUSSIA- Go to the bathhouse after work. 1930s

Thanks to Nadya. Anonymous artist. Go to the bathhouse after work, 1930s.

"The Soviet social poster “Go to the bathhouse after work” aimed at introducing personal hygiene and combating unsanitary conditions, which, apparently, was very common at that time. The poster “Go to the bathhouse after work” shows a very dirty worker with a washcloth in his hand. The word "bath" is made in red, attracting the attention of people."

RUSSIA - Dmitry Moor. Do you join the volunteers? 1920

Did you volunteer, Poster by Dmitry Moor, 1920. Recruiting poster for the Red Army.
Thanks to Denis and Olga for the propaganda card.  I like it!

"In January 1918, the Worker-Peasant Red Army was created under Lenin and his government, The Council of People’s Commissar. Instead of using a draft, the Red Army started with peasant and worker volunteers, who were people Lenin felt were best to defend his government. This army also included former tsarist officers, because the man that constructed this new Red Army felt that they would be helpful in their success as an army because of their loyalty to Russia. They later created a training program and abandoned the volunteer motto, creating more efficient military units." Read here

RUSSIA - “The Motherland Is Calling Us!”

Propaganda card in my mailbox! Love it!  Thanks to Julia for this.

"The Motherland Is Calling Us!” - this poster by Georgian artist Irakli Toidze is considered to be the most significant graphical work of the Second World War. 

The poster was believed by some to be a masterpiece, while others thought it was just another piece of Soviet propaganda.  Whatever the case, the poster has a very interesting history that is worth telling today as the world celebrates the end of WWII. 

The woman on the poster is the author’s wife. It was created in July 1941 during the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Upon hearing the first report by the Soviet Information Bureau that Nazi Germany had attacked the Soviet Union, Toidze’s wife ran into his studio crying out "war!”. Startled by the expression on her face, the artist ordered his wife to freeze and immediately began to sketch the piece. 

When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin saw the poster, he immediately loved it and ordered it to be mass produced with 5,000 copies being printed and sent to every commandant’s office and recruiting station in the Soviet Union. The caption on the parcels read: "Top secret. Must only be opened with special ordinance”. 

The parcels were opened in late June 1941, a week after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Following this the poster was plastered on every house, all cross-roads and walls in the Soviet Union. The poster became the collective image of a mother calling on the help of her sons to protect their homeland. The original poster is now kept in Georgia’s National Library in Tbilisi." From here

RUSSIA - No Mischief!

Victor Goverkov, Don't fool around with it! 1948.  Thanks Lisa for the card.

Is this a propaganda card, I kinda like it. :)

No Mischief : Soviet Cold War Propaganda Poster 1948

"Soviet soldier tell caricature of Uncle Sam to make no mischif with his nuclear bomb.

Artist: Victor Ivanovich Govorkov (1906 - 1974). Was born in Vladivostok in 1920s started to work with books graphic. In1930s worked as artist of satiric posters. Since 1950 draw agitational posters. He is Honored artist of USSR. 

Year: 1948"

NORTH KOREA - Be good at land management

Heyy... look at what I found in my mailbox today!.  My first written card from North Korea (..smile... a long smirky smile...)  From uritours, I remember giving my address last year when they offer North Korea's postcard for a limited time.  By the time I submit my address they informed that the country is closed for tourism but once it re-opens in the new year they will send again.  And I think, my chances are slim.  But hey, who would know the future, right!

The card was mail on April 25, 2015, travelling for almost 5 months! And I'm just glad it finally arrived.  North Korea make to the list as country #149.

The caption reads, "Let's convert our whole country into green Mountains and fields! To Do that, let's be good at land management."

"North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK; Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국; hancha: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The name Korea is derived from the Kingdom of Goryeo, also spelled as Koryŏ. The capital and largest city is Pyongyang. North Korea shares a land border with China to the north and north-west, along the Amnok (Yalu) and Tumen rivers, and a small section of the Tumen River also forms a border with Russia to the north-east. The Korean Demilitarized Zone marks the de facto boundary between North Korea and South Korea. The legitimacy of this border is not accepted by either side, as both states claim to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula. 

The Empire of Japan annexed Korea in 1910. After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, Korea was divided into two zones by the United States and the Soviet Union, with the north occupied by the Soviets and the south by the Americans. Negotiations on reunification failed, and in 1948 two separate governments were formed: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south. These conflicting claims of sovereignty led to the Korean War (1950–53). Although the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about a ceasefire, no official peace treaty was ever signed. Both states were accepted into the United Nations in 1991."

I love this stamp, the color is so lovely.  Issued in 2006 in a set of 8 stamps featuring Mountain Kumgang Scenery MNH VERY BEAUTIFUL.