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know your communist enemy

several months ago while at the Seattle Public Library perusing through old US government documents I came across a series of propaganda pamphlets from 1955 entitled "Know Your Communist Enemy". predictably, the pamphlets are designed to smear the idea of communism and are filled with slanderous remarks aimed towards the USSR, Karl Marx and other major figures. there are some very interesting parallels between these propaganda documents and modern rhetoric the United States is pushing.
I wanted to make these freely available for the sake of preservation of knowledge, and as a powerful reminder that the US is still virulently anti-communist (although many folks who are paying attention don't need any reminder of that...)
scanned copies of the PDFs are available (sorry for the occasional rotated page, the scanner's UI was a little clunky) and I have also uploaded them to the Internet Archive.
A black and white drawing of a globe, shrouded in darkness and clouds, with a malevolent octopus perched upon it
Remember, Cthulhu is a communist!