On 16 June 1947, British cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth illustrates the threat represented by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who is methodically trying to extend his area of influence in Central Europe to include the countries of Western Europe.

In einem bei der Informationsberatung der kommunistischen Parteien in Szklarska Poreba, Polen, vorgetragenen Bericht am 22. September 1947 kritisiert Andrej Shdanov, dritter Sekretär der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion (KPdSU), heftig die amerikanische Politik. Bei dieser Informationsberatung treffen sich die Vertreter der kommunistischen Parteien aus der Sowjetunion, Bulgarien, Frankreich, Ungarn, Italien, Polen, Rumänien, Tschechoslowakei und Jugoslawien.

In September 1947, a briefing conference of the Soviet, Bulgarian, Czechoslovak, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Yugoslav Communist Parties is held in Szklarska Poreba, Poland. During this conference, a statement is issued criticising US and Western imperialism.

Am 7. Oktober 1947 zählt die französische Tageszeitung Le Monde die politischen Ziele der neuen kommunistischen Internationale auf und unterstreicht die Vorherrschaft der Sowjetunion in dieser neuen Organisation.

On 15 February 1948, in the Brussels weekly newspaper Le Phare Dimanche, the cartoonist Gacq attacks the protective attitude feigned by the Soviet Union towards Europe, a continent that is being bled dry.

In March 1948, British cartoonist David Low illustrates the Communist threat facing the whole of Europe and deplores Moscow’s stranglehold on a number of countries including Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. From left to right, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

Am 13. März 1948 hält der belgische Premierminister und Außenminister Paul-Henri Spaak in Luxemburg einen Vortrag, in dem er das Wesen und die Gefahren der sowjetischen Außenpolitik erläutert.

Vor den österreichischen Parlamentswahlen am 9. Oktober 1949 warnt die Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) die Wähler des Landes vor der Bedrohung durch die „kommunistischen Tentakel“.

‘The stepfather: I already have enough children, but I like you so much that I’d like to adopt you.’ On 1 April 1950, the German daily newspaper Der Mittag illustrates the Soviets’ desire to take over West Berlin and extend their zone of influence in Central Europe.

On 12 October 1951, the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia emphasises the positive action taken by the Soviet peoples and their leader, Joseph Stalin, to uphold peace in the world, and emphasises the determination of the Socialist States and the USSR to adhere to the commitments made in the Stockholm Appeal.

‘Joseph the insatiable’. In June 1952, in the Luxembourg Socialist daily newspaper Tageblatt, the cartoonist Simon portrays the downside of Soviet economic planning.

In December 1952, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Junior Minister in the Italian Foreign Ministry, criticises the political aims of the Moscow leadership and describes European unification as a bulwark against the Communist threat.

At the beginning of the Cold War, the ‘Molotov Plan — the definitive solution to all the world’s problems’ predicts that the world will evolve according to Communist and Soviet principles. Molotov was Soviet Foreign Minister from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.