Cambodian Army vs. Communists, no. 1 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)
A Khmer-language photo poster on yellow, headed 'Soldiers of the Khmer Royal Army fight the Communists'. Six photographs show an explosion near advancing troops, a patrol in scrub, riflemen on a bank, an observer with binoculars and a gunner, a truck on a river ferry and armoured vehicles passing a pavilion. The tell is transfer: the army's activity is presented as a protective national force, with the named opponent given only as 'the Communists'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 12, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 12, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729925, 306-PPA-26).
Text on the object
ទាហានកងខេមរៈភូមិន្ទ តស៊ូនឹងពួកកុម្មុយនិស្ត [central text block in Khmer, [illegible] at this resolution] [six photograph captions in Khmer, [illegible] at this resolution]
Soldiers of the Khmer Royal Army fight the Communists (headline). Text block and captions not translated here.
Only the headline is transcribed; the final letters of the last word are uncertain at this resolution. The text block and captions are too small to read reliably.
