越接近勝利越要堅苦奮鬥 (The Closer to Victory, the Harder We Must Struggle), Military Affairs Commission poster

A tall strip poster: a black-and-white soldier with a rifle stands against a red field with the Nationalist sun emblem and barbed wire, above a slogan that the closer victory comes, the harder the struggle must be. The tell: closeness of victory is asserted as a fact to justify more sacrifice, with no evidence from the front given.

Date: 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: Political Department of the Military Affairs Commission (軍事委員會政治部), Chinese Nationalist government
Region: East Asia
Country: China
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Nanjing Nationalist Government
Leader: Chiang Kai Shek
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Home front
Event: Second Sino Japanese War
Techniques: Bandwagon
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), OWI Bureau of Special Services file, via DPLA/Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (anonymous Chinese government poster; NARA: No Copyright - US)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Office of War Information, Bureau of Special Services), via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons

Text on the object

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

越接近勝利
越要堅苦奮鬥

軍委會政治部製

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

The closer to victory,
the more we must struggle hard

Made by the Political Department of the Military Affairs Commission

Two vertical columns read right to left; credit runs down the left. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.