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).
- 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
- 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-USZC4-3585
Text on the object
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)
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.
