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Question: Can anyone explain this history cartoon!?
http://opal!.kent!.ac!.uk/cartoonx-cgi/ccc!.!.!.!.

What even or issue inspired the cartoon!?
What is the context of the cartoon!?
Who is the target!?(who will see)
What is its style!? (how it gets the message accross)
What is the message of this cartoon!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
When the Soviet Union exerted its power over the region encompassing the Baltic States, Russia, and the Ural Mountains no one was allowed to do anything without permission of the Communist Party and everything was owned and controlled by the State!.
All the people within the "Iron Curtain" were political prisoners and forced into slavery and low wage jobs to support the growing military might of the U!.S!.S!.R!.
The target is the free world, and Winston Churchill is trying to get us to realize how dangerous the "Red Menace" is becoming and unite against it!.
I do not know it's style, I am not an expert on cartoons , I only know my history!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Iron Curtain
Joe Stalin
Russian History 1945-1980


history - attempt by ruler to keep controlWww@QuestionHome@Com

Its about the deviding of Europe after WW2
Joe is Joself Stalin
the man with the cigar is ChurchillWww@QuestionHome@Com

The "Iron Curtain" was a symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas beginning World War II to the end of the Cold War!. German politician and Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels was the first to refer to an "Iron Curtain" coming down across Europe after World War II, in a manifesto he published in the German newspaper Das Reich in February 1945!.

In order to make your own interpretation of the cartoon, you should read more about the Iron Curtain first: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Iron_Curtai!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com