Defend Your Rights (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)
A Burmese-language poster showing a large tree on blue ground, its leaves each carrying a line of Burmese text beginning with the word for 'free', and a label at the roots. A headline above addresses the reader about their rights, and a line below warns against breaking the branches that shelter them. The tell is glittering-generalities: freedoms are presented as leaves of a tree rooted in democracy.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 2, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, , retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 2, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729936, 306-PPA-36).
Text on the object
သင်၏ကျွန်အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကာကွယ်လော! [eight leaves, each a line beginning လွတ်လပ် (free...); individual leaf text - [illegible] at scan resolution] [root label] ဒီမိုကရေစီ သင့်အားအရိပ်ပေးနေသည့် အခက်များကိုမချိုးလေနှင့်
Defend your rights! [eight leaves, each beginning 'free...'; not translated] [root label] Democracy Do not break the branches that give you shade.
Best reading of Burmese script; leaf text is left unrendered rather than guessed.
