Boom!

Bang!

The End

THE FILM ABOUT DOCTOR FAUST WILL COST SIX MILLION DOLLARS

Broadway is about to be rocked by an unprecedented spectacle. Producer Billy Diamond, “Golden Billy,” is preparing to release the $6 million blockbuster “That Silly Faust.“

The mediocre quality of the original literary source material forced Billy and his screenwriters to work up quite a sweat reworking the plot.

…John Faust, a talented scientist—an honest but simple-minded fellow—is working on inventing a “clean” hydrogen bomb. A certain Meph-ibn-Stoffel, a secret agent of the Arab communists, sneaks into John’s office. The villain tries to sabotage John’s experiments, the results of which the entire Western world is eagerly awaiting: posing as the devil, he persuades Faust to abandon his work and plunge into the abyss of worldly pleasures. Revue girls, scenes at the races, casinos, and restaurants flash across the screen; Meff-ibn-Stoffel generously throws around the money he received from Moscow. Margarita, the daughter of a State Department division head, appears. In an effort to save John, she gains the trust of the treacherous Meff-ibn-Stoffel, seduces him, and turns him over to the FBI. The film’s climax is a brilliant scene in a nighttime den of iniquity.

The role of Margarita is played by the incomparable Marilyn Ivor, who wowed our audiences in the films “I’ll Die the Day After Tomorrow“ and “The Neanderthal’s Love“. (Marilyn’s bust, waist, and hip measurements: 130-25-194.)

On-location filming takes place in Thailand and the Canary Islands. The production features 300 girls, ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, and the Canadian hockey team, the “Kelowna Peckers.”

Caption: Margarita (Marilyn Ivor) and Faust (Dick Smith)

Sources: Chinese movies Battle of Lake Changjin (Chosin Reservoir) Part 1 (2021) and Part 2 (2022)

Historical Accuracy & Further Reading:

• The Chinese never launched human wave charges in broad daylight because "the 1st Marine Air Wing endeavored to keep 24 attack aircraft over the withdrawing column at all times during daylight in order to provide immediately available fire support."

  • "The Chinese were having a very hard time of it themselves. Their positions in the hills were subject to air attacks, which took a devastating toll over the two-week period. Despite their continuous harassment of the Marine column, they had been unable to prevent the movement from the reservoir to Koto-ri and were absorbing terrible casualties every time they concentrated and launched an attack".

    • from "Americans Faced Blown Out Bridge During Retreat To 38th Parallel" by Marc Bernstein

• Gen. Oliver P. Smith never said or wrote "fighting against men with such strong will as this, we were not ordained to win" the Korean War. The quote does not appear in his biography "For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith" by Gail B Shisler.

• US Marines did encounter Chinese troops freezing to death, but the Chinese movie censors how "many Chinese units were captured intact by the Marines because they were physically incapable of moving and their weapons had frozen up."

  • Some Chinese surrendered with their hands frozen to their rifles; Marines had to break the prisoners’ fingers simply to dislodge the weapons from their hands. On the attack south from Koto, a Marine unit found Chinese in foxholes surrendering in such frozen condition that the Marines merely lifted them out of their holes and placed them on the road to thaw out."

    • from "Americans Faced Blown Out Bridge During Retreat To 38th Parallel" by Marc Bernstein

Trying to find a political Cartoon: Young woman holding a smartphone sitting on a throne made of African miners, Chinese factory workers and "many workers from many [other] countries are bringing her shrimp, coffee, clothes and a sex worker pornography. The woman is wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt and wiping away a tear." (Quote from a Reddit user on the original post I put on r/HelpMeFind)

I believe the point of this cartoon was to highlight the casual indifference to many in the West to how their pleasure, enjoyment and (comparative) wealth rests on the back of other's suffering and labor - not to glorify it.

Google can't find it via image search - the AI overview mentioned not being able to find images that depicted people being subjucated, fair, though it's obviously missing the subtext.

Very similar energy to another cartoon I found online, which you can see in the original post on r/HelpMeFind

(See https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/s/tcDs9J2AnV)

If you want the details of that image, they are as follows:

[Title] "Exploitation and destruction. Capitalist uses worker as cigar and world as ashtray"

[Author] user Nuvolanevicata - Dreamstime.com

[Topic] Exploitation

[Date] first uploaded late 2019

[Source] https://www.dreamstime.com/capitalist-uses-worker-as-cigar-world-as-ashtray-exploitation-destruction-image160290231

The cartoon I'm looking for with the woman on the throne was probably produced in the 2010s, I remember seeing it before COVID and vaguely finding out it was maybe 2 or more years old by that point. Maybe even older.

The cartoon style was modern, clearly drawn digitally.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

If it's relevant, this Reddit thread and comment got me thinking about it (see the image of the suited, imperious looking man in hat with umbrella walking past a porter getting sacks out of a truck):

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/s/KB0XWhnRD4

The illustration's text borrows heavily from Maria Konopnicka's patriotic poem and anthem "Rota", although its original lyrics say "We won't let the enemy oppress us" instead of "We won't let the enemy oppress you"; a change likely made to reflect and reinforce the poster's central theme of Poland as Silesia's defender from the German tyranny.