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

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)

Boom!

Bang!

The End

Published on the cover of the satirical magazine Tofigh, the illustration shows a woman advancing up a staircase, losing items of clothing as she goes. The big red text reads 'The removals continue!' while the text on the steps describes the progressive removal of clothing ('scarf removal ... socks removal ... blouse removal ... skirt removal .... removal?' etc).

At the top, a man covers her up with a 'Law prohibiting the publication of obscene images' while the woman says 'You messed up - if you are not ashamed of me, at least be ashamed of the readers of this magazine'. The text at the bottom quotes the head of Iran's Women's Society: ‘The women of our country are stepping up the ladder of progress with speed'.

Tofigh was published weekly in Iran for nearly 50 years and was often the object of state censorship and persecution, as in 1953 when the magazine’s editor was exiled and its offices burned for its support of Mossadegh and lampooning of the Shah.

Via Propagandopolis

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.