The not so peaceful "Peaceful Germans"

Exactly 80 years ago, the Soviet satirical magazine "Krokodil" had a special drawing by I.Semyonov in issue #9 from March 24, 1945.

On one page we observe "Peaceful Germans": a doctor, a typist, two clerks getting their money... and a text at the bottom:

"We forcefully recommend to look at them against the light."

🤔 What can that be?

On the reverse side of the page we are met with several mirror-image amendments!

The video simulates how that caricature would look once you shone the torchlight of truth at the deceptive images!

The peaceful doctor is not so peaceful any more, the peaceful typist turns into a radio operator with a "code book", the peaceful clerks are now seen getting money "for sabotage" and "for murder"!

‼️ There is a bit of context one has to keep in mind, when looking at the caricature. In the final months of the war, culminating in May 1945. the West started to present Germans as poor victims of the big bad Russian bear, with Goebbelsian propaganda myth (https://stanislavs.org/soviet-attitude-towards-german-people-during-world-war-ii-historical-documents/) about the misconduct of the Soviet troop, finding fertile ground in the Anglo-sphere. This caricature, as well as a number of others that we will present in time, aim to highlight this, puzzling to the USSR, change in attitude.

See our Telegram channel "Beorn And The Shieldmaiden": https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/11888 and Beorn's Beehive blog: https://stanislavs.org/the-not-so-peaceful-peaceful-germans/