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title: Dummy, Dummy...Who's Got the Dummy? (Nasser and Syria)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dummy-dummy-whos-got-the-dummy-berryman-1957/
description: A figure labelled NASSER, in a military tunic and holding a sign reading DOWN WITH THE WEST, sits on the knee of a larger figure whose armband bears
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1957 US newspaper cartoon showing Egypt's and Syria's leaders as ventriloquist's dummies of a Soviet figure, in the period's caricature style, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Dummy, Dummy...Who's Got the Dummy?, 1957 US cartoon: A figure labelled NASSER, in a military tunic and holding a sign](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dummy-dummy-whos-got-the-dummy-berryman-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dummy-dummy-whos-got-the-dummy-berryman-1957.jpg)

# Dummy, Dummy...Who's Got the Dummy? (Nasser and Syria)

A figure labelled NASSER, in a military tunic and holding a sign reading DOWN WITH THE WEST, sits on the knee of a larger figure whose armband bears a hammer and sickle, like a ventriloquist's dummy. A bearded figure labelled SYRIA holds a flag reading I HATE THE U.S.A. and a banner reading ME TOO!. The cartoon argues Egypt and Syria are speaking Soviet lines; the technique is name-calling, with hostile slogans attributed to the figures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
DOWN WITH THE WEST
I HATE THE U.S.A.
NASSER
ME TOO!
SYRIA
JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
```

[← Преносно-превозни вести, 7 September 1957: Ninth of September greeting to "the fighters for PEACE" (Varna factory newspaper)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prenosno-prevozni-vesti-9-septemvri-varna-1957/) [USAF Drum and Bugle Corps concert (Turkish poster distributed in Turkey) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/usaf-drum-and-bugle-corps-ankara-turkish-1957/)

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