Soviet anti-relgious propoganda.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Dangerous Minds has a collection of anti-religious propoganda and artwork (http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_gory_and_grotesque_art_of_soviet_antireligious _propaganda1)from Bezbozhnik, a militant atheist magazine from the Soviet Union.

Alot of it really is quite striking, even grotesque. The only problem is that some of the caricatures seem vaguely racist, even anti-Semitic (although most of the magazine's staff were ethnic jews).

[Rafiq]

I can't say I have any qualms with them.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

I don't see anything particularly antisemitic or racist about the caricatures - sure, they're grotesque, but that was the point. There are some clever touches, like Jesus's halo having an inscription, as is common in Eastern Orthodox depictions. Note that in the picture entitled "Chinese samovar", the Chinese functionaries are depicted as grotesque, but the picture clearly shows ordinary Chinese, depicted in the same way as European workers, being crushed by the statue.