• A satirical cartoon suggesting that "radicals" should be shot to the Moon by a rocket. The cartoon features a large group of people in a rocket soaring away from Earth in the bottom corner.
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    One cartoonist satirically proposed that America shoot all its unwanted radicals to the Moon. This came after the 1919 “Red Scare” in the United States over the Communist Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

  • A satirical cartoon suggesting that "radicals" should be shot to the Moon by a rocket. The cartoon features a large group of people in a rocket soaring away from Earth in the bottom corner.

Created:

May 1920

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82-8648

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