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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the midst of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) draws up a report on the development of the Soviet armed forces between 1947 and 1954 and highlights the threat of these forces to Western Europe.