Communism Gives You Justice? Kapampangan version (poster distributed in Manila)
A Kapampangan 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
- Date
- April 18, 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: Federation of Free Farmers
- 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 18, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948985, 306-PPB-113).
Text on the object
Dirinan na cang CATARUNGAN ning Comunismo? ICUTANG CARING UNGGARYU Federation of Free Farmers
Do you receive justice from Communism? Ask the Hungarians (approximate rendering of the Kapampangan; 'Dirinan na cang' is a colloquial verb phrase).
Imprint line reads as printed.
