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
- Date
- February 9, 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, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1950-55. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730090, 306-PPA-191).
Text on the object
[illegible: three lines of decorative Burmese display script in a dark panel at the foot; one phrase in white]
[not translated: text not reliably legible; NARA title 'Defend Your Rights']
Stylised lettering not reliably readable; no text was guessed.
