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Behind the mouthpiece we see the features of Russian Communist leader Josef Stalin, symbolically representing the Kremlin’s hate-filled anti-western propaganda machine. They are distributed widely across the entire territory of France via the medium of a large megaphone positioned on the country’s north-eastern border. These deadly & dangerously infectious communist bacteria appear in the form of a plague of eleven zoomorphic insect and flea-like creatures, each an easily identifiable caricature of one of the leading figures of the PCF. The poster’s wording makes a clever double-entendre and wordplay comparing highly dangerous & infectious “ coccobacilli“, already well-known to scientific bacteriology, with “ cocobacilli” (spelt with one c) – coco being a well-known pejorative French slang word for a communist. So here this new bacteriological warfare is unleashed upon France itself. These were later investigated by an International Scientific Commission established by the World Peace Council in 1952. There were numerous accusations that American planes operating from bases in Okinawa & carrying deadly payloads of bacteriologically infected insects had flown secret bombing missions over Communist-held Korean territory during 1950-1. This particular design offers a strident riposte to the widely-circulated rumour that bacteriological weapons had been employed by the newly-founded NATO organisation against its Chinese & North Korean adversaries in the Korean War theatre from 1950 onwards. Each individual poster print run numbered several hundred thousand copies which were distributed and displayed across the whole of France. Aggressively & unashamedly anti-Communist in both content & message, on average the organisation ran 3 different poster campaigns per month between 19. The principal vehicle of Paix et Liberté‘s campaigning activities was the propaganda poster. Much of the organisation’s financial backing came from the United States. Its principal objective was to counter the “fake news”, falsehoods and disinformation propagated by the French Communist Party (PCF) during this period and to elucidate in print & graphics the argument that members of the PCF were nothing more than the covert agents & regional lackeys of Stalinist Russia. This rare & striking anti-Communist poster dating from the early 1950s was designed and distributed by the French centre-right campaigning organisation, Paix et Liberté (Peace and Liberty) which had been founded in 1950. The whole poster now backed on museum-quality archival tissue for better presentation and preservation. Some barely visible separations along line of lower vertical fold, all invisibly closed and reinforced on verso. Couple of small holes on fold at upper centre in blank area of image adjacent to title, expertly filled with new old paper and reinforced on verso. Some light paper toning along outer edges of several folds.
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Traces of old horizontal and vertical folds. Original colour poster printed on rather thin & poor quality post-war newspaper type stock. Halte aux menteurs! Les Cocobacilles sèment la haine!