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title: Chinese Atrocities poster series, No. 6 (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chinese-atrocities-poster-no-6-lao-1956/
description: A photo-montage sheet numbered 6 in a 'Chinese Atrocities' series. Four black-and-white photographs show a barefoot man with bound hands walking between
section: Collection
---

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# Chinese Atrocities poster series, No. 6 (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)

A photo-montage sheet numbered 6 in a 'Chinese Atrocities' series. Four black-and-white photographs show a barefoot man with bound hands walking between armed guards, and two large outdoor crowd gatherings, interleaved with four red panels of Lao-script text. The tell is fear-appeal and outrage-bait: photographs of detention and mass meetings are paired with captions to present Chinese communist rule as a threat to Laos.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/)

## Text on the object

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

```
6

[Four red panels of Lao-script caption text, not transcribed character by character]
```

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

```
[The Lao captions were not translated; the sheet is a numbered photo montage whose panels caption the photographs. Only the printed number 6 is certain.]
```

The Lao script in the four red caption panels could not be reliably transcribed from the image, so only the printed number is given verbatim. No issuer or imprint is printed.

[← Chinese Atrocities poster, No. 5: Public Trial Crowd and Prisoners (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chinese-atrocities-no-5-public-trial-lao-vientiane-1956/) [Untitled (Alben W. Barkley mourning ribbon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-untitled-barkley-tribute-1956/)

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