Communism Gives You Share of Earth? Kapampangan (poster distributed in Manila)
A Kapampangan-language poster with a rough sketch of a wooden grave cross with a nameplate beside a mound of earth. The headline asks whether communism gave you your share of the earth, and the red line below says to ask the Hungarians. The tell is fear-appeal with card-stacking: a grave stands for the answer, and one example, Hungary, is 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: 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 18, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948992, 306-PPB-120).
Text on the object
Babie na queca ning Comunismo ing parte mu quing gabun? ICUTANG CARING UNGGARYU Federation of Free Farmers
Did communism give you your part in the earth? Ask the Hungarians. (Literal reading of the Kapampangan; 'gabun' is read as earth or soil.)
The nameplate on the cross is [illegible].
