Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and it reached glo
Polish anti-communist activists with a banner reading "Out with Communism" during a Śląsk Wrocław football match in March 2012
White propaganda poster "For united Russia" representing the Bolsheviks as a fallen communist dragon and the White cause as a crusading knight (1919)
The Freikorps were anti-communist right-wing paramilitaries (which were essential in fighting against and dismantling the communist revolution in Germany between 1918 and 1919) who are widely seen as a precursor to Nazism and responsible for the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
Propaganda poster of the Russian Whites, contrasting its positive ideal of a "Holy" Christian Russia to Soviet Russia of the Bolsheviks; the Bolsheviks are marked with Jewish facial traits
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition from political parties as well as outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state.
Two versions of the World War II U.S. propaganda poster "Your Lot in a Totalitarian State" depicting a process of compulsory sham election which took place in totalitarian states, the flags of which – Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Soviet Union – are presented below. In the version on the right, produced after Operation Barbarossa, the flag of the Soviet Union (Allied member) is replaced with that of the Empire of Japan (Axis member), which is not always regarded as totalitarian by Western scholars.
Anti-communist propaganda in West Germany (1953): "All ways of Marxism lead to Moscow! Therefore CDU".
1920 Soviet propaganda poster with a complimentary cartoon of Vladimir Lenin by Viktor Deni. According to 'traditionalist' historians, Lenin was the first politician to establish a totalitarian regime; such description have been opposed by the 'revisionists' and other authors.
A document from the collection of Henri Max Corwin, equating Nazism with Stalinism.