5 Unusual Forms of Propaganda by Governments

4. WWII Postage Stamp Forgeries

These were done during the first and second World War when the postal system was one of the main way of relaying messages.

Both the Allies and Axis tampered with the opposing stamps to cause separation and mistrust between the leaders of the opposing groups. They portrayed the heads on the stamp to either looking scared or plain evil.

Some changed the pictures altogether to other leader’s head replacing the original. For example the image of the British Queen was replaced by Stalin’s on the British stamps. This was a strategy to get people to mistrust Stalin as trying to take over Britain and such.

Not the best propaganda they did, but it must have made people confused as to why the stamps were changed especially the first few ones to have ever been issued.