Communists Are Your Enemy poster (Kachin, Rangoon)
A Kachin-language cartoon poster. Under the English word 'COMMUNIST' in large yellow letters, a gaunt, one-eyed man in uniform points a pistol at a small child's face while gripping the child's neck. Labels are written on his sleeve and the child's shirt. By NARA's title the message is that Communists are the viewer's enemy. The tell is fear-appeal through a caricatured aggressor threatening a child, with name-calling in the single loaded headline word.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 12, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- 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 and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 12, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949001, 306-PPB-129).
Text on the object
COMMUNIST NI GAW NANHTE A HPYEN RAI NGA AI [on the man's sleeve] KUNMYUNIT ANASHIN WADA [on the child's shirt] DIMAWKARESI
Communist [Kachin] ... is your enemy (per NARA's title 'Communists Are Your Enemy'). [sleeve, transliterated from English] Communist dictatorship [shirt, transliterated from English] Democracy
Translation of the Kachin line follows NARA's title; the sleeve and shirt words are Kachin spellings of English terms.
