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 stackingTestimonial

Date

September 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, Latin America and the Middle East 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

Themes

Labor, War and the military

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Asia/LatAm/Mid-East posters, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 9, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948941, 306-PPB-91).

ကွန်မြူနစ်အလုပ်သမားလောကနီဉာဏ်မရှိကြောင်း
အရှေ့ဘာလင်အလုပ်သမားများပြလိုက်ပြီ

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

Verbotene Zone
Eintritt verboten.
Es wird geschossen!

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.