Fascist Pigs
სულით ნათესავნი
(Two of a Kind), 1935
ს. ნადარეიშვილის (Samson Dmitrievich Nadareishvili) (1895 – 1977)
ნიანგი (Crocodile), №5 1935
Georgia, Georgian
The pink-skinned Western (European or American) capitalist — a besuited figure, here wearing a swastika lapel pin to signify kinship with Nazi-Fascist elements — is shown as pig-like in nature — a close relative of the gluttonous swine he is bent over.
中东地区
(Zhongdong diqu, The Middle East),1957
华君武 (Hua Junwu) (dates unknown)
漫畫 (Man hua) 83 (February 23, 1957 issue), front cover
China, Chinese
The pig in top hat and dinner jacket represents a Western industrialist profiteer’s wanton consumption of the resources of the Middle East (represented by the hookah bowl and the Saudi Arabian flag). United States President Eisenhower is represented as a Sheherazade figure distracting Middle Eastern authorities with his Eisenhower Doctrine (the book featuring a Nazi swastika on its cover). The Doctrine offered military protection to Middle Eastern nations subject to aggression from communist powers. That effort is depicted here as a pretext for a kind of crypto-fascist American imperialism in the Middle East.
Свинья грязи ищет
(A Pig Looks for Dirt), 1929
Борис Иванович Антоновский (Boris Ivanovich Antonovskii) (1891-1934)
Ревизор: сатирический еженедельник (The Inspector General: Satirical Weekly),
1929
USSR, Russian
In this image from a 1929 Soviet satirical journal, the German Von Zeppelin rigid airship appears in the form of a giant pig. In 1929 the Von Zeppelin made a round-the-world flight. By that time, Stalin, who had pursued an isolationist vision for the Communist Soviet state, had succeeded in marginalizing opposition figures like Leon Trotsky, who had insisted on a more internationalist-collaborationist direction, largely by tarring them as fascist traitors. The “dirt” this giant pig is searching for on the outskirts of Moscow is probably any residual elements of the “Trotskyite” faction.
Hitleriada Furiosa, 1946
Stanisław Toegel (1905-1953)
Germany
The sharply upturned nose and bi-segmented mustache on the jester Hitler in the foreground of this image echoes the snouts in the crowd of corpulent, pink-skinned Nazi pigs lined up behind him.
გაწბილებული
(Disappointment), 1938
გ. ისაევისა (G. Isaev) (dates unknown)
ნიანგი (Crocodile), № 11 1938?
Georgia, Georgian
In this image published in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in the lead-up to World War II, the top hat on the large pig signals that it represents capitalism. Here it stands for industrialist, capitalist interests in democratic European states that supported alliance with rising antidemocratic nationalist forces against communism, which they perceived as the greater threat. Among the sucklings, figures of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco are clearly recognizable. The others may include Hirohito and Chiang Kai-shek.
The Black Panther Coloring Book
This Is a Pig. He Trys (sic) to Control Black People, 1968
Artist unknown
USA, English
Artists associated with the movement for racial equality in the United States often represented racist white authorities as pigs. The best-known examples of this are satirical graphic works by the artist Emory Douglas (born 1943), who was a member of the Black Panther Party. Other Black American cartoonists used porcine images to represent capitalist greed, among them Ollie Harrington (1912-1995). This particular publication, however, has contested origins. It is widely suspected that the Coloring Book, which contains depictions of black children committing acts of violence against police officers, was commissioned by the FBI’s counterintelligence operations, COINTELPRO, which worked to discredit organizations that it deemed subversive. Another version of the story suggests that the book was produced by a new Black Panther Party member, but the Party rejected it for circulation under its banner because it found the images too extreme and prejudicial. According to this theory, the book fell into the hands of COINTELPRO, which then produced a large print run and distributed it as part of a larger smear campaign against the Panthers.
Untitled, 1953
Николай Олин (Nikolai Olin) (1909-1978)
Original Artwork for Cover of Сатирикон (Satirikon), №19 (I) 1953
Germany, Russian
In this image produced for the Russian émigré satirical journal Satirikon, the vaguely bull-like, savage, red-furred, drooling beast representing the Soviet Union (identifiable by the hammer-and-sickle markings on its left thigh) — all ferocious, wild rage — is easily held in check by the calm, dignified, distinctly human, civilized power of U.S. President Eisenhower.