Anti-Italian Brooch, 1935

Artist unknown

Place unknown, possibly England

This brooch was created in response to Fascist Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I are depicted as two dogs fighting over a bone.

ბრიტანული დიპლომატიური ვახშამ

(British Diplomatic Dinner), 1938

B. Isaev Don (dates unknown)

ნიანგი(Crocodile), № 9 1938

Georgia, Georgian

Neville Chamberlain, in the top hat, urges the waiter “feed them full so they’ll leave us alone.” The waiter is carrying Czechoslovakia on a platter and preparing to serve it to the four salivating dogs in the foreground representing (from left): Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, and Hirohito. This Soviet publication accuses Britain of abetting the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in a cowardly and naïve effort to appease what were ultimately insatiable imperialist forces.

破車走老路

(A Broken Cart on an Old Road), 1950

池星 (Chi Xing) (1922-2007)

戰友 (Brothers in Arms) November 30, 1950

China, Chinese

In this image, a post-WWII USA has embarked on the same path that led the Axis Powers over the cliff of self-destruction. President Truman is mounted on a disintegrating war chariot being pulled towards the edge of a precipice by two wasted and wounded dogs with human faces. These appear to represent the United States military and former Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek, exiled to Taiwan by the Chinese Communist Party. The ensemble represents the doomed moral decrepitude of American profit-driven military aggression. The caricature was created early in the Korean War, shortly after China had joined the conflict on the side of North Korea.

გერმანიის ფაშიზმი ემზადება ვეფხისებური ნახტომისათვის, რომ მოულოდნელად ყელში წვდეს მშვიდობიანობას

(German Fascism is poised to leap like a tiger and seize peace by the neck), 1935

V. Krotkov (dates unknown)

ნიანგი (Crocodile), № 6 1935

Georgia, Georgian

Here a tiger, representing apex predators, gives lessons in ferocity to the quasi-canine, quasi-human figure labeled “German Fascism,” which it prepares to unleash on the world.

セミョノフ張 作霖會見

(Meeting of Semyonov and Zhang Zuolin), 1920-21

伊東忠太 (Itō Chūta), 1867-1954

Japan, Japanese

This image, produced in Japan at the beginning of the 1920s, depicts two alpha-male Manchurian warlords as dogs performing the well-known canine ritual of assessing a new acquaintance. The two notoriously vicious warlords are Zhang Zuolin of China and Grigorii Mikhailovich Semenov of Russia, both of whom held sway in Manchuria, the often-contested borderland between the two countries. Manchuria was also a central battleground of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. In 1919 Semenov was on the side of the White Russians who were trying to defeat the Bolsheviks in the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution.

کلّه پزی عمو سام

(Uncle Sam cooking [kaleh-pacheh soup]), 20 Aban 1331/Nov. 11, 1952

Artist unknown

Aqa Baba, year 1 (1952), no. 3

Iran, Persian

Uncle Sam is cooking kaleh pacheh soup, a Persian soup which includes sheep organs. A dog-form of United States President Dwight Eisenhower looks onto a steaming pile of bones labeled “Korean Massacre” (كشتار كره) and sits on a platform labeled “presidential seat” (كرسى رياست جمهورى). The caption reads “the [kaleh pacheh] cook got up…[the dog] sat down” (كله پز بر خاست… جايش نشست), meaning bad is gone and worse has replaced it. One focus of Eisenhower’s presidential campaign was to end the Korean War (1950-1953). The message here is that whatever Eisenhower plans to do will make things worse.