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Colonial problem, 1947

This map was published in the American newspaper New York Sunday News on June 8, 1947. Drawn by Edwin Sundberg, it emphasizes the Soviet Union's "Colonial Problem." The U.S.S.R is shown as a massive, single block of countries in red. In the rest of the world, former colonies have been granted independence (e.g., The Philippines; Burma; mandated portions of Syria and Trans-Jordan), or are "moving towards" independence (India), or revolting against colonial domination (French Indochina), or have moved from colonial rule to "Trusteeship" (African states). The eastern Pacific and the Americas, despite having colonial posessions in that time, don't appear in this map.

Date
June 8, 1947
Mapmaker / publisher
Edwin Sundberg
Place
colonial empires
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,861 × 1,301 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright was not renewed (published 1931–1963).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US not renewed; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Colonial problem, 1947" (June 8, 1947). Edwin Sundberg, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonial_problem,_1947.jpg

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