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title: '"Ride the Chollima, run higher and faster!": factory wall poster, North Korea (photographed 2016)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-ride-chollima-higher-faster-factory-poster-2016/
description: A tall wall poster inside a factory shows a man in a white scarf, fist raised, riding a winged white horse that rises from a mass of machinery, with a…
section: Collection
---

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[!["Ride the Chollima, run higher and faster!": factory wall poster, North Korea (photographed 2016)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dprk-ride-chollima-higher-faster-factory-poster-2016.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dprk-ride-chollima-higher-faster-factory-poster-2016.jpg)

# "Ride the Chollima, run higher and faster!": factory wall poster, North Korea (photographed 2016)

A tall wall poster inside a factory shows a man in a white scarf, fist raised, riding a winged white horse that rises from a mass of machinery, with a torch in its hoof. The slogan reads 'Riding the Chollima, let us run higher and faster!' (the Chollima is a mythical winged horse used since 1956 as the symbol of rapid production campaigns). The tell: the myth image and the comparative 'higher, faster' stand in for any stated output target, and the worker is shown as part of an already surging movement.

## Text on the object

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

```
천리마를 타고
더높이,더빨리 달리자!

[on the torch:] [illegible]
```

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

```
Riding the Chollima,
let us run higher and faster!

[on the torch:] [illegible]
```

Slogan read from the hosted photograph; the small lettering on the torch is not legible. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Pelak poster: Sardar Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, 'Martyr of Iran's Power' (khamenei.ir)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/khamenei-tehrani-moghaddam-pelak-poster-2016/) [Welcome to free Eritrea: painted flag sign on a street corner in Asmara →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eritrea-welcome-to-free-eritrea-sign-asmara-2017/)

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