คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. I, food panel
Two-panel colour poster with the Thai headline 'Communism or Freedom'. On the left, uniformed men take produce from a family's house while a boy in a red scarf bearing a star points toward them; the caption says the communist government trains children as informers. On the right, a family eats together beneath a portrait of the king and a Buddha image; the caption calls the happy, close family the foundation of the nation. The tell: a paired contrast in which one side is a charge without cited incident and the other a prescribed ideal (fear-appeal; transfer).
- Date
- 1966
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Thai-language 'Communism or Freedom' poster series distributed in Thailand
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Fear appealTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LOT 10536, transferred from the U.S. Information Agency), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, USIA transfer; LOC: 'No known restrictions on publication.')
U.S. Information Agency, c. 1966; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3586
Text on the object
คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ [left panel caption] รัฐบาลคอมมิวนิสต์อบรมเด็กๆ ให้เป็นสายลับ คอยจับผิดพ่อแม่เพื่อป้องกัน มิให้พ่อแม่ของคนซุกซ่อนพืชผลที่ต้องส่งมอบให้รัฐเป็นส่วนกลาง [right panel caption] ครอบครัวที่ผาสุกและมั่งคั่ง คือ รากฐานแห่งความเป็นปึกแผ่นของชาติ [lower left corner] ① (No. I) [truck side, left panel] [hammer-and-sickle emblem] 增产
COMMUNISM or FREEDOM [left panel caption] The communist government trains small children to be spies, watching to catch their parents out, so that people's parents do not hide crops that must be handed over to the state as a central pool. [right panel caption] A happy and prosperous family is the foundation of the nation's solidity. [lower left corner] I [truck side, left panel] [hammer-and-sickle emblem] 'Increase production' (Chinese)
Read from 1024 px LOC image with 3x crops of the caption bands. The Chinese characters on the truck are small: 增产 is the best reading. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
