Victor Vashi (D. 1990) was a Hungarian political cartoonist who "cartooned his way through the years of Nazi and Soviet occupation of his country.

Most of the information that is available can be found in the brief text on the back of his book Red Primer for Children and Diplomats, a humorous cartoon history of communism in the Soviet Union, published in 1967, on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.

During the 1970s, Vashi was the chief cartoonist for the Machinist union newspaper at its headquarters on Connecticut Avenue near Dupont Circle in Washington D.C.

He was reportedly very kind and doted on the children of headquarters executives who visited, even entertaining and giving drawing tips to young talent.

[3] This is Victor Vashi's magnum opus, a humorous historical retrospective of the Soviet Union told in cartoons, published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.

Red Primer was first published in the United States in June 1967, in a paperback edition by Viewpoint Books (which no longer exists).