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title: 'Welcome to free Eritrea: painted flag sign on a street corner in Asmara'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eritrea-welcome-to-free-eritrea-sign-asmara-2017/
description: A painted panel on a stone wall in central Asmara shows the Eritrean flag over a rising sun, with the English words 'Welcome to free Eritrea' in black…
section: Collection
---

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[![Welcome to free Eritrea: painted flag sign on a street corner in Asmara](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eritrea-welcome-to-free-eritrea-sign-asmara-2017.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eritrea-welcome-to-free-eritrea-sign-asmara-2017.jpg)

# Welcome to free Eritrea: painted flag sign on a street corner in Asmara

A painted panel on a stone wall in central Asmara shows the Eritrean flag over a rising sun, with the English words 'Welcome to free Eritrea' in black below. The slogan ties the country's name to the word 'free', a positive abstraction that the sign does not define.

## Text on the object

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

```
Welcome to free Eritrea
```

[← "Ride the Chollima, run higher and faster!": factory wall poster, North Korea (photographed 2016)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-ride-chollima-higher-faster-factory-poster-2016/) ["결사옹위" (defend to the death): roadside sign with armed figures, North Korea (photographed 2017) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-defend-leadership-to-the-death-roadside-sign-2017/)

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