In 1949, Pablo Picasso designed a lithograph of a dove for the International Peace Congress (Congrès mondial des partisans de la paix) in Paris. It is Picasso's dove and its biblical allusion to the end of the flood that has come to symbolise peace in the second half of the Twentieth century. The French anti-communist movement Paix et Liberté (Peace and Liberty) began to appropriate this same dove symbol in the early 1950s to promote their belief that peace would be threatened by the installation of a communist regime.

In this satrical poster, a large mustachioed brute, a caricature of Josef Stalin (mockingly referred to as "Jo-Jo"), is seen wearing a red star on his T-shirt with a hammer and sicle tatooed on his forearm. He stands with a white dove on a leash and threateningly carries a spiked club in his hand. The image conveys the message that a Stalinist regime would inhibit - and perhaps annihilate - peaceful existence in France.