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
- Date
- April 16, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 16, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948984, 306-PPB-112f).
Text on the object
6 [Four red panels of Lao-script caption text, not transcribed character by character]
[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.
