---
title: Not to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/by-the-nose-thai-1952/
description: A Thai-language cartoon poster. A moustached, Stalin-like figure with a red star on his tunic grips a hammer-and-sickle yoke clamped on an emaciated…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Caricature cartoon of a Stalin-like figure leading a Chinese-capped man by a nose-rope over an emaciated figure labelled "Thai people", kept whole. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Not to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/by-the-nose-thai-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/by-the-nose-thai-1952.jpg)

# Not to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature)

A Thai-language cartoon poster. A moustached, Stalin-like figure with a red star on his tunic grips a hammer-and-sickle yoke clamped on an emaciated figure labelled 'Thai people' and leads a smaller man in a Chinese-style cap by a rope through his nose. The headline 'Not to be associated with..!' tells viewers what to feel; the picture works by the stigma label and by staging servitude as the outcome.

## Text on the object

Original (Thai) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ไม่ควรคบ..!

ประชาชนไทย
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Not to be associated with..! [Should not be befriended..!]

Thai people
```

Thai headline at upper left; the words 'ประชาชนไทย' are printed on the cloth around the prostrate figure at left. FRAME translation (machine, not fluent-reader verified).

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