Communism Gives You Security? Version A, Tagalog (poster distributed in Manila)
A Tagalog 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
- Date
- April 5, 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, 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 5, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948990, 306-PPB-118).
Text on the object
Bigay sa inyo ng Komunismo ang KATIWASAYAN ITANONG SA UNGGARO Federation of Free Farmers
Communism gives you security (printed without a question mark). Ask Hungary.
Imprint lines as printed.
