For a Free World / Victims of Communism (English poster distributed in Asia)
A two-panel sheet. The left panel, 'For a Free World / United Nations offers', shows photographs captioned security, food, improved land, rebuilt homes and better health. The right panel, 'Victims of Communism / Soviet Imperialism brings to Korea', shows a whip-wielding figure driving a column of people past onion-domed towers, and photographs captioned starvation, flight, death, broken homes and terror. The tell is card-stacking, pairing benefit photographs with suffering photographs, and name-calling in 'Soviet Imperialism'; no photograph is dated or sourced.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 12, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Korean War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 12, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729950, 306-PPA-50).
Text on the object
FOR A FREE WORLD VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM UNITED NATIONS offers SECURITY FOOD IMPROVED LAND REBUILT HOMES BETTER HEALTH Soviet Imperialism brings to KOREA: STARVATION FLIGHT from homeland DEATH to the innocent BROKEN HOMES TERROR [signature on drawing:] ERIC GOAL
