Communism Gives You Justice? Version B, Chinese, 1957 US poster: A Chinese poster asking whether communism gives justice

Communism Gives You Justice? Version B, Chinese (poster distributed in Manila)

A Chinese poster asking whether communism gives justice and answering 'Ask the Hungarians' (the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its suppression are the unstated reference). A large black ink drawing shows a prone figure bound in tangled cord or wire. The tell is fear-appeal with card-stacking: one case, Hungary, stands for what communism would deliver everywhere, with no other evidence offered.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal Card stacking

Date: April 22, 1957
Period: Cold War
Made by: U.S. Information Agency, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series; sponsor named on the sheet: Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist League
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, Elections and party politics
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 22, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948987, 306-PPB-115).

Text on the object

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

共產黨
會給你
公理嗎
?

請問匈牙利人民

菲律濱華僑反共抗俄總會
PHILIPPINE CHINESE ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE

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

Will the Communist Party give you justice? Please ask the Hungarian people. Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist Resist-Russia General Association / Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist League.

Imprint line reads as printed.