Cold War Propaganda Research Paper

Cold War Propaganda Happening concurrently with the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States was the Cold War. As relations were deteriorating with each new conflict, both governments started creating and distributing propaganda in order to maintain public support and a unified home front. Propaganda materials, such as posters and art, were abundant in both the US and the USSR. In the Soviet Union, there are various posters that utilized many socialist symbols as well as the color red, which traditionally is associated with socialism and communism. Many captions were such to instill pride in the Russians and to promote their socialist state. For example, posters that were distributed throughout the USSR had slogans such as ”Socialism is our launching pad” and “Be proud, soviet, person, you opened the path to stars from Earth”. Another poster shows scientists and engineers on a rocket launching from a globe that shows the Soviet Union with the caption “Ordinary people are responsible for such great achievements in space”. This caption is prominent in that it creates pride in the general public as well as inspire the youth to become engineers themselves. The United States have posters that proclaim “Clean the Communist Filth off the Moon” and another that show an astronaut and children looking up with the …show more content…
Propaganda creates a common enemy and unifies the general population. To an extent, propaganda was very influential in gaining support and interest for the Space Race. Yet, as important it is to have the public approval, it is not the most significant in terms of continuing funding and financial support for the space programs. It is the governments who were the financial supporters and their main interests were the potential military technological advancements that could come out of space