Name: Antique Russian Emigre Newspaper Cartoons Mocking Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia
Brand: Bibelots London
SKU: 376592379900
Price: 950.00 GBP
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Antique Russian Emigre Newspaper Cartoons Mocking Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia

£950.00

Antique Russian Emigre Newspaper Cartoons Mocking Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia

£950.00

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Fine antique collection of sixteen anti-Nazi newspaper cuttings removed from Russian emigre newspaper publications on the eve of World War II, mocking the Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Each cartoon is printed in black ink on thin newspaper stock, cut and mounted onto card, with dates in red pencil ranging 1938-1939. All are signed 'MAD', the pseudonym of an emigre caricaturist active in Paris emigre journals.

The set satirizes:

Nazi leaders and ideology — Hitler, Goebbels, Göring, German militarism, and anti-Jewish racial laws.
Foreign policy and propaganda — the Nuremberg rallies, the Rome–Berlin Axis, annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Jewish persecution — forced adoption of “Israel/Sara” as names, Freud’s ransom to leave Vienna, the scapegoating of Jews.
Parallels with Soviet Russia — mocking similarities between Hitler and Stalin, and Stalin’s cynical reactions.
Europe in crisis — the looming storm of Nazism over the continent, Spain and Franco, Polish and Jewish perspectives.

Individual titles include:

“Библейскія имена въ Германіи” (Biblical Names in Germany) – Jewish names forced to adopt “Israel.”
“Drang nach der Tschechoslovakei” – Göring weighed down in pursuit of Czechoslovakia.
“Выкупъ за Фрейда” (Ransom for Freud) – satirizing Freud’s costly escape from Vienna.
“Передъ нюрнбергскимъ съездомъ” (Before the Nuremberg Congress) – Hitler rehearsing.
“Нюрнбергскія игрушки” (Nuremberg Toys) – puppet soldiers mass-produced.
“Нѣмецкая школа” (German School) – Axis defined as Rome–Berlin.
“Закатъ Геббельса” (The Decline of Goebbels) – mocked with dental humor.
“Продолжительная бесѣда” (Lengthy Conversation) – gossip at a diplomatic reception.
“Громоотводъ” (Lightning Rod) – Europe under the storm of the swastika.
“Абсурдъ” (Absurdity) – trivializing differences between Hitler and Stalin.
“Политика” (Politics) – society ladies misunderstand war causes.
“Еще одна вина” (One More Blame) – Jews blamed for everything.
“Старая гвардія умираетъ” (The Old Guard Dies) – Stalin’s reaction to Krupskaya’s death.
“Заявленіе о доходахъ” (Income Statement) – petty bourgeois tax anxieties.
“Поляки и евреи” (Poles and Jews) – cultural disputes over Einstein vs Copernicus.
“Въ штабъ добровольцевъ” (In the Volunteers’ Headquarters) – suspicion of Franco’s intentions in Spain.