Cold War Poster
This 1950 Soviet propaganda poster depicted the American way of life as seen through United States crime statistics. The poster shows that "every twenty-one seconds in the U.S., a serious crime takes place", that "every three minutes, a car is stolen", and "in New York City, 13,000 people disappear every day." Both nations smeared each other through such propaganda and misinformation.
Source: Aerospace Publishing Ltd., London. In The Nuclear Age. TimeFrame AD 1950-1990. (Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA; 1990), p. 15.