Vincze Miklos at io9 has compiled an impressive collection of anti-propaganda photos from the early 1900s -- you know, when people actually understood the perils of communism, before they started glorifying its atrocities on dumb red tee-shirts.

Here are just a couple of the best...

A propaganda comic book, 1947:

(Image: Wikipedia Commons via io9)

A Scot Tissue Towels ad that first appeared in the 1930s:

(Image: via Reddit)

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