Yes ANOTHER political cartoon and more propaganda! ha, but seriously you guys know that the best part of newspapers are the comics, so obviously cartoons are the best part of history.
This is a pretty obvious comic, showing Cuba having a mouth full of missiles, but after the USSR was taking out the missiles that it had planted out. "This hurts me more than it hurts you!" is printed on the top. It is said in an ironic way, because obvious "Cuba" is getting their teeth ripped out and the "USSR" is just pulling out. I was trying to find out the real reason as to why it would hurt Cuba to have the missiles taken out. And then I gave it a thought for about .00002 of a second and of course the relationship with the United States was even more deeply effected.
The cartoonist was Edmund S. Valtman lived in Estonia, which was occupied by the USSR which is why he and his wife left and went to the United States. I feel as though this can further drive the feelings of Anti-Communism, and also why Cuba is viewed as a victim in the cartoon and USSR as the menacing dentist. But his one comic that one a Pulitzer shows Fidel in a not so innocent way, although Cuba it self is.
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