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title: Defend Your Rights (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/defend-your-rights-burmese-family-1953/
description: A Burmese-language poster showing a smiling bare-chested man with a cloth on his head, a laughing infant on his shoulders pointing ahead.
section: Collection
---

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# Defend Your Rights (Burmese-language poster distributed in Burma)

A Burmese-language poster showing a smiling bare-chested man with a cloth on his head, a laughing infant on his shoulders pointing ahead, and a smiling woman with a flower in her hair, against a blue sky. A dark panel at the foot carries three lines of stylised Burmese script. The tell is plain-folks with glittering-generalities: an idealised cheerful family stands in for the freedoms in NARA's title; the text itself is not read here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[illegible: three lines of decorative Burmese display script in a dark panel at the foot; one phrase in white]
```

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

```
[not translated: text not reliably legible; NARA title 'Defend Your Rights']
```

Stylised lettering not reliably readable; no text was guessed.

[← The New Government of the United States (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-government-of-the-us-japanese-1953/) [Together Always: 'Kapilanman miabe' (poster NARA lists as Bikol, distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/together-always-bikol-1953/)

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