CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/17/2025

A timely look at 20th-century propaganda

Leading up to President’s Day, under the current president, we notice that many global relationships are changing. And so are the explanations, and so is media coverage. What better book to feature, then, than Propagandopolis, FUEL’s visually fascinating collection of twentieth-century propaganda images from around the world, friend or foe. Or friend, or foe? Featured here, a 1976 painting from the Soviet Union, by Dorzhiev Lubsan, who was later appointed People’s Artist of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. “It celebrates the Apollo–Soyuz mission of 1975, when the US Apollo module docked with the Soviet Soyuz capsule and astronauts from both countries spent two days together in orbit. General Stafford, leader of the US crew, told his Soviet counterparts, ‘I’m sure we have opened up a new era in the history of man.’”