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title: 你不殺共產党共產党必殺你 (If You Do Not Kill the Communists, the Communists Will Kill You), Concordia Association Jinzhou leaflet
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/concordia-association-jinzhou-leaflet-kill-communists-1936/
description: 'A text-only single-sheet leaflet in two vertical lines of large characters: ''If you do not kill the Communists, the Communists will surely kill you'' and…'
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# 你不殺共產党共產党必殺你 (If You Do Not Kill the Communists, the Communists Will Kill You), Concordia Association Jinzhou leaflet

A text-only single-sheet leaflet in two vertical lines of large characters: 'If you do not kill the Communists, the Communists will surely kill you' and 'The Communists can destroy but cannot build'. The Concordia Association's Jinzhou provincial headquarters is named at the foot. The first line offers the reader a kill-or-be-killed choice, and the second states as fact what the Communists can and cannot do.

- **Date:** 1936
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Concordia Association, Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters (滿洲帝國協和會錦州省本部), Manchukuo
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Manchukuo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=manchukuo)
- **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Manchukuo Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=manchukuo-government)
- **Leader:** [Zhang Jinghui](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=zhang-jinghui)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism)
- **Event:** [Japanese Invasion of Manchuria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=japanese-invasion-of-manchuria)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (scanned from National Tsing Hua University Library, Taiwan, via TELDAP)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%BB%BF%E5%B7%9E%E5%B8%9D%E5%9C%8B%E5%8D%94%E5%92%8C%E6%9C%83%E9%8C%A6%E5%B7%9E%E7%9C%81%E6%9C%AC%E9%83%A8_%E5%8D%B0%E8%A1%8C%E4%B9%8B%E5%82%B3%E5%96%AE_2.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain per Commons ({{PD-Manchukuo}}: collective work, 50-year term expired; holding-library page: access open) Concordia Association Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters, Manchukuo; National Tsing Hua University Library (Taiwan) via TELDAP and Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

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

```
[right column, vertical, large type] 你不殺共產党共產党必殺你
[left column, vertical, large type] 共產党能破壞而不能建設
[foot, two lines, spaced type] 滿洲帝國
協和會錦州省本部
```

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

```
[right column] If you do not kill the Communist Party, the Communist Party will surely kill you.
[left column] The Communist Party can destroy but cannot build.
[foot] Manchukuo Empire / Concordia Association, Jinzhou Provincial Headquarters
```

Vertical text is read top to bottom, right column first. 共產党 is 'the Communist Party' (also 'Communists'); the leaflet gives no punctuation, so the right column is one sentence in two clauses. The foot lines are letter-spaced and read right to left. Text is fully legible at 960 px.

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