Life — March 7, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "When the Bolsheviki Control U.S." This is anti-communist propaganda from the Red Scare era (likely 1919-1920s). The cartoon depicts a dystopian scenario if Bolsheviks seized American government, showing: - **Internment camps** for millionaires (top left) - **Closed factories** and economic collapse (top right) - **U.S. Treasury** being looted (center right) - **Executive session** with propaganda proclamations (center) - **Exiling public officials** to Alaska (bottom) The satire warns Americans that communist control would mean: - Confiscation of wealth - Government takeover of business - Mass deportations - Loss of democratic institutions The cartoon uses exaggeration and fear-mongering typical of anti-Bolshevik American rhetoric during the period when communist revolution in Russia threatened Western capitalist nations.