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title: East Berlin Riot poster, PO-210-B (Burmese, distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/east-berlin-riot-poster-po-210-b-burmese-1953/
description: A landscape Burmese-language photo-montage poster. Eight press photographs of the June 1953 East Berlin workers' protests surround a headline and three
section: Collection
---

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# East Berlin Riot poster, PO-210-B (Burmese, distributed in Rangoon)

A landscape Burmese-language photo-montage poster. Eight press photographs of the June 1953 East Berlin workers' protests surround a headline and three text paragraphs: a barbed-wire sign reading 'Verbotene Zone', a burning building, a young man throwing a stone at a tank, columns of tanks, soldiers on a street, a crowd scattering, and men burning a flag. The tell is card-stacking: photographs of one side's repression are selected to frame the events for Burmese readers.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Burmese; German (sign in photograph)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ကွန်မြူနစ်အလုပ်သမားလောကနီဉာဏ်မရှိကြောင်း
အရှေ့ဘာလင်အလုပ်သမားများပြလိုက်ပြီ

[eight photograph captions and three text paragraphs in Burmese, [illegible] at this resolution]

Verbotene Zone
Eintritt verboten.
Es wird geschossen!
```

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

```
Headline, approximate: East Berlin workers have shown [that the Communist regime has no support among the working people]. Sign in photograph (German): Forbidden zone. Entry forbidden. Shooting will take place! Captions and body text are not translated here.
```

Burmese headline read approximately; captions and body text not transcribed.

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