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title: คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. VI, travel panel
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communism-or-freedom-thai-travel-1966/
description: Two-panel colour poster with the Thai headline 'Communism or Freedom'.
section: Collection
---

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# คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. VI, travel panel

Two-panel colour poster with the Thai headline 'Communism or Freedom'. On the left, armed guards at a barrier check a family reading papers while others wait; a red banner with Chinese characters hangs on a pillar, and the caption says officials control the people and do not let them travel freely. On the right, passengers board a bus on an open highway and the caption says anyone in 'our' country may go anywhere without obstruction. The tell: a checkpoint scene set against an open road, a paired contrast without a cited incident (fear-appeal; transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ

[left panel caption]
ในประเทศคอมมิวนิสต์ เจ้าหน้าที่คอยควบคุม ไม่ให้ราษฎรเดินทางไปไหนมาไหนได้ตามใจชอบ

[right panel caption]
ในประเทศของเราใครอยากจะไปไหน มาไหนก็ได้ทั่วแดนดิน ไม่มีอะไรขัดขวาง

[red banner on pillar, left panel] [Chinese characters, partly legible: 服 ...]
[lower left corner] (VI)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
COMMUNISM or FREEDOM

[left panel caption]
In communist countries, officials keep watch and control so that the people cannot travel anywhere as they please.

[right panel caption]
In our country, whoever wants to go anywhere can go all across the land; nothing stands in the way.

[red banner on pillar, left panel] [Chinese characters, partly legible: 服 ...]
[lower left corner] VI
```

Read from 1024 px LOC image with 3x crops of the caption bands. The Chinese banner text on the pillar is too small to read beyond its first character. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← คอมมิวนิสต์ หรือ เสรีภาพ (Communism or Freedom), Thai-language poster no. II, religion panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communism-or-freedom-thai-religion-1966/) [Cung chúc Tân Xuân (Happy New Spring) Tet greeting leaflet →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cung-chuc-tan-xuan-tet-greeting-leaflet-1966/)

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