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title: Give Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951/
description: A donor stamp from the Crusade for Freedom sets a sunlit skyline of church spires, a synagogue's Star of David, a minaret, onion domes and a pagoda above…
section: Collection
---

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[![Give Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/crusade-for-freedom-stamp-1951.png)

# Give Freedom to the Captive Nations! Fight Communism!

A donor stamp from the Crusade for Freedom sets a sunlit skyline of church spires, a synagogue's Star of David, a minaret, onion domes and a pagoda above a red scene of soldiers attacking civilians. The religious imagery transfers the moral weight of faith to the anti-communist broadcasting campaign the stamp was sold to fund.

- **Date:** 1951
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Crusade for Freedom / National Committee for a Free Europe (covertly funded by the CIA)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Stamp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=stamp)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Truman Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=truman-administration)
- **Leader:** [Harry S. Truman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=harry-s-truman)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Fundraise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=fundraise)
- **Themes:** [Religion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=religion), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [Crusade for Freedom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=crusade-for-freedom)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crusade_Stamp_3.png), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work) Crusade for Freedom (1951); via Cold War Radios / Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
GIVE FREEDOM TO THE CAPTIVE NATIONS!
FIGHT COMMUNISM!

Crusade For Freedom
```

'GIVE FREEDOM TO THE CAPTIVE NATIONS!' runs around three sides of the stamp's border (TO THE / CAPTIVE NATIONS! along the top and right, GIVE FREEDOM down the left) and 'FIGHT COMMUNISM!' along the bottom border; 'Crusade For Freedom' is a small script caption inside the lower (red) panel.

[← ORDER: safe-conduct pass of the Chinese People's Volunteers' Headquarters](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cpv-safe-conduct-order-1951/) ["Delavci, tovarne so vaša last!" (Workers, the factories are your property!), workers' council election poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/delavci-tovarne-so-vasa-last-yugoslavia-1951/)

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