(Left) A Cartoon showing an American hammering "Small Communist China" (Right) Poster saying NO! to Communism © 1997 US Anti-Communist Propaganda
There were little opportunities in China to speak up against the Maoist propaganda during the Cultural Revolution. People who spoke up were either called, "Counterrevolutionary," tortured, or beaten to death. However, in other democratic nations like the United States, there were US editorial articles that was published at the time that went against Chinese propaganda.
According to a few of the articles, United States was afraid of China's Communist government and its growing power in nuclear weapons. Also, as General Marshall had said in the 1950's, he had disagreed with what Communist China was doing to its people because of the fact that Chinese propagandists used the Ideology of Marxism to work towards establishing a Communist form of government in which to the United States opinion, the Communist system of government is corrupt. Since the United States were Anti-Communists and believed in democracy and freedom, there were political cartoons that made fun of the Chinese propaganda and Communism.
© 1997 US Anti-Communist Propaganda
© 1997 US Anti-Communist Propaganda
© 1997 US Anti-Communist Propaganda
These comic strips were published in one of the comic strips in which it was shown in newspapers across the United States during the Cultural Revolution in China. This countered Chinese propaganda with Anti-Communist propaganda. This made people in the United States more aware that Communism is evil and democracy and freedom is the way to go.
