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After the end of the Second World War, European society encountered a new political environment called the Cold War, which created a new political culture. In 1950, the struggle around peace between communism and anticommunism became more intense as the tensions between the East and West camps increased with the outbreak of the Korean War and the Stockholm Appeal. In this context, Jean-Paul David, with the support of René Pleven, the Prime Minister of the 4th Republic and the head of the ‘Third Force’, created <Paix et Liberté> for anticommunist propaganda to defend the truth against communist propaganda. This organization carried out anticommunist propaganda activities by various means such as posters, tracts, newsletters, pamphlets, placards, cartoons, postcards, stickers, movies, radio, etc. In this paper, for a broader understanding of the evolution of the Cold War in France, we first examine the process of organizing <Paix et Liberté>, a stronghold of anticommunist propaganda to defend peace and freedom and also counterweight to the <Mouvement de la Paix>, against the communist propaganda movement from 1950 to 1955. Next, we try to clarify the implications of the new political culture that was formed in the early Cold War by examining various anticommunist propaganda activities in detail.

Cold War, Forth Republic, Jean-Paul David, Paix et Liberté, Anticommuniste Propaganda