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title: Fight for Freedom - Czechoslovakia
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cz-fight-for-freedom-1939/
description: A numbered sheet (no. 14) on yellow stock with a large portrait of President Edvard Benes and three photographs of him with President Roosevelt.
section: Collection
---

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# Fight for Freedom - Czechoslovakia

A numbered sheet (no. 14) on yellow stock with a large portrait of President Edvard Benes and three photographs of him with President Roosevelt, with Winston Churchill, and with Stalin and Soviet officers, beside a text on the recognition of the Czechoslovak Government. The tell for transfer is the placing of Benes beside each Allied leader, which lends the exile government their standing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Dr. Eduard Beneš, pupil and collaborator of Thomas Masaryk, is now head of the State and President of Czechoslovakia. Under his leadership the Czechoslovak Government, assisted by the State Council, directs the fate of the Czechoslovak people in the present struggle.
The Czechoslovak Government is recognized by the Governments of all the United Nations now at war with Germany - and Czechoslovakia is at war with all the enemies of the U. S. A., Great Britain and the U.S.S.R.
14
```

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