Communism Gives You Security? Version A, Chinese, 1957 US poster: A Chinese poster questioning whether communism gives

Communism Gives You Security? Version A, Chinese (poster distributed in Manila)

A Chinese poster questioning whether communism gives security, with a prison-bar grid and a keyhole as its image and the line 'Ask Hungary' (the 1956 Hungarian uprising is the unstated reference). The tell is fear-appeal with card-stacking: imprisonment imagery and a single example, Hungary, stand in for what communism would bring, with no further evidence given.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal Card stacking

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: 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, 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 18, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948988, 306-PPB-116).

Text on the object

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

共產党
會給你
安全嗎
?

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 security? Please ask the Hungarian people. Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist Resist-Russia General Association / Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist League.

Imprint lines as printed.