Caricature map with comment from the author "In one place chess, in another -mate, in the Balkans -checkmate", Shturets newspaper, 1939 (Aleksiev, 1939).

Caricature map with comment from the author "In one place chess, in another -mate, in the Balkans -checkmate", Shturets newspaper, 1939 (Aleksiev, 1939).

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Caricature maps have long been used for political propaganda, forging ideas and views. This study examines the successful examples of political propaganda from different historical periods by combining the caricature genre with cartography. Caricature maps from Bulgaria and the world are discussed, paying special attention to one of the most famous...

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