Communism Gives You Security? Kapampangan version (poster distributed in Manila)
A Kapampangan 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 17, 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 17, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948989, 306-PPB-117).
Text on the object
Dirinan na cang CAPANATAGAN ning Comunismo ICUTANG CARING UNGGARYU Federation of Free Farmers
Do you receive security from Communism? Ask the Hungarians (approximate rendering of the Kapampangan).
Imprint lines as printed.
