共產黨未來之前 / 共產黨來了之後 (Before the Communist Party Came / After the Communist Party Came), U.S. turn-it-over face card
A sheet printing the same line-drawn face twice, each copy captioned in Chinese 'Before the Communist Party came' at the foot and, upside down above, 'After the Communist Party came'. Held one way up the face smiles; turned over, the smile becomes a frown. No fact, place or date is offered. The whole change of mood is placed on the arrival of one party, a single-cause blame carried by a trick of the drawing (scapegoating).
- Date
- April 22, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Scapegoating
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from U.S. National Archives, RG 306, NAID 5729931), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; Commons PD-USGov, NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729931, 306-PPA-31).
Text on the object
共產黨未來之前 共產黨來了之後
Before the Communist Party came After the Communist Party came
Each of the two copies prints the first line at the foot and the second upside down at the top. Lines read right to left. Translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
