SOVIET CARTOON RIDICULES CAPITALISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 553
• Publication Date: January 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Political - Propaganda, cartoon
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
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DATE
PUBLISHED 5 Nov 1950
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SOVIET CARTOON RIDICULES CAPITALISM
This cartoon depicts as futile the attempts of Western states-
men (doctors) to save the life of their doomed patient (capital-
ism). Especially effective is the use of terms having one mean-
ing in the field of medicine and another in the field of politics
or warfare; for example the "leeches" that Schumacher and Adenauer
are returning to the patient obviously refer to the latter's pre-
vious "bleeding".of Germany. The political leaders of the prin-
cipal Western powers are depicted as the chief physicians. Polit-
ical figures of secondary importance (Tito, deGaulle, etc.) are
.depicted merely as assistants.
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AT THE PATIENT'S BEDSIDE
(A Sketch From Real Life)*
Text by Emil' Krotkiy
Drawing by I. Semenov
Capitalism is ailing. The disease is incurable, but "medical specialists"
are doing everything within their power to save the patient. The doctors have
not yet reached complete agreement but no stones are being left unturned. Chief
Physician Truman is using military expenditures as artificial alimentation.
Medic Marshall is rushing to his assistance with a "hydrogen respirator," he
supposes that the patient will improve if he takes hydrogen.. .for his health'.
Acheson, a specialist in "external remedies," is assisting him. The "European
Celebrity" Churchill is in complete agreement with his American colleagues.
Standing on his rights as a "celebrity," he is already at the patient's bedside,
with his inevitable cigar. It can't be helped!
The Fulton diplomat is well
Accustomed to his own cigar;
It's noted for its burning smell
And not for nicotine's attar!
Over Doctor Churchill's shoulder peers Medical-assistant-Phlebotomist Moch.
His duties are not important: he simply bleeds anyone he is ordered to bleed.
And here is deGaulle with his (to be exact not his, but Hitler's) prescription
for saving capitalism with the help of a fascist dictatorship.
The consultation could not get by without its homeopaths. Bevin and Attlee
are trying to aid the patient by pouring small doses of their "Patent Socialism"
into his rickety capitalist body. The patient himself doesn't have much faith
in this type of cure. He knows that
Results are always pretty poor.
And all the while the patient is getting worse. The "cold pack on the head"
(in the shape of a "cold war") which the doctors ordered, has not reduced his
stock exchange fever. The "hot war" poultice a la MacArthur and his lingering
"operations" have weakened the patient. His temperature falls and rises with
the price of stocks. In his delirium of world domination he asks for (believe
it or not, it's a pact) North Atlantic water.. .but he himself doesn't believe
in its healing powers.' In a moment of lucidity he manages somehow or other to
say:
Might do me.some harm'
And his grief-stricken friends bustle and fuss about the patient's bed.
Trygve Lie fans his burning brow with a recent UN resolution. Franco weeps in
a handkerchief which is a gift from the dying man. Se-rants (Adenauer, Schu-
macher, and others) are rushing to repay their next-to-the-last debt to their.
master.
And Druggist Tito also has something to do: he's up to some sort of mis-
chief according to'the prescription of the 1,, glo-American doctors.
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