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title: Cambodian Army vs. Communists, no. 2 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cambodian-army-vs-communists-2-khmer-1952/
description: A Khmer-language photo poster on yellow with the same headline as no. 1, 'Soldiers of the Khmer Royal Army fight the Communists'.
section: Collection
---

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# Cambodian Army vs. Communists, no. 2 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)

A Khmer-language photo poster on yellow with the same headline as no. 1, 'Soldiers of the Khmer Royal Army fight the Communists'. Six photographs show soldiers in training: scaling a wall, crossing a beam, bayonet drill, a signals class, vehicle maintenance and paratroopers descending. The tell is transfer: training, skill and discipline are attached to the national army's cause, with the opponent named only as 'the Communists'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ទាហានកងខេមរៈភូមិន្ទ
តស៊ូនឹងពួកកុម្មុយនិស្ត

[central text block in Khmer, [illegible] at this resolution]

[six photograph captions in Khmer, [illegible] at this resolution]
```

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

```
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.

[← Hãy tìm học một nghề trong Quân-đội Việt-Nam (Go and learn a trade in the Vietnamese Army) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-army-recruitment-vietnamese-1952/) [Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cambodian-army-vs-communists-3-khmer-1952/)

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