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title: 'Germ Warfare: 共產黨的謊話被戳穿了！ (Communist Lies Have Been Exposed!) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/germ-warfare-chinese-1952/
description: A photo sheet in Chinese answering the 1952 Communist charge that UN forces used germ weapons in Korea. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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# Germ Warfare: 共產黨的謊話被戳穿了！ (Communist Lies Have Been Exposed!) (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)

A photo sheet in Chinese answering the 1952 Communist charge that UN forces used germ weapons in Korea. Portraits of Acheson, Trygve Lie and Jacob Malik head the page, above photographs of a UN-flagged field hospital, Red Cross delegates, a prisoner being inoculated, a wounded man on a stretcher and a man spraying a shed. The captions state that the UN and Red Cross offered an investigation and that the Communists refused. The tell is testimonial and transfer: UN and Red Cross standing is attached to the US-UN side, and officials' denials stand as the rebuttal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
共產黨的謊話被戳穿了！

中共和北韓共黨沒有能力維持北韓區內軍民的衛生，卻指控說聯合國用「細菌炸彈」。俄國的馬立克（右）提出指責，立刻被美國國務卿艾其遜（左）指為「荒謬」。聯合國秘書長挪威籍的李哲之（中），也發表文告予以否認。

國際紅十字會以中立見稱於世，它接受調查各種控訴及協助防治疾病的責任（不問疾病原因為何）。聯合國官員已同意此一提議。

但是共黨怕世界人士知道真相，於是，像他們早期中拒絕這些中立的瑞士紅十字會工作人員一樣，拒絕了聯合國世界衛生組織的協助。

謊話被戳穿了。全世界人士──還有共黨戰俘──都知道聯合國和自由世界是維護健康和真理，反對疾病和謊話的。左圖中的戰俘和中圖中的傷兵第一次受到從沒受到過的醫藥診治。見過美國及聯合國衛生工作（右）的人們也知道事實真相，明白共黨是在說謊。

[C]
```

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

```
Communist Lies Have Been Exposed!

The Chinese Communists and North Korean Communists, unable to maintain the health of the soldiers and people in the North Korean area, instead charged that the United Nations used "germ bombs". Russia's Malik (right) made the accusation and was at once called "absurd" by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson (left). UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie of Norway (centre) also issued a statement denying it.

The International Red Cross is known to the world as neutral; it accepted responsibility for investigating the various charges and helping to prevent and treat disease (whatever the cause of the disease). UN officials have agreed to this proposal.

But the Communists, afraid the world would know the truth, just as they earlier refused these neutral Swiss Red Cross workers, refused the help of the UN World Health Organization.

The lie is exposed. People all over the world, and even Communist prisoners of war, know that the UN and the free world uphold health and truth and oppose disease and lies. The prisoner in the left picture and the wounded soldier in the centre picture are receiving medical care for the first time such as they never had. People who have seen U.S. and UN health work (right) also know the true facts and understand that the Communists are lying.
```

[← Les communistes pris en flagrant délit de mensonge (The Communists Caught in the Act of Lying)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communists-caught-lying-1952/) [Germ Warfare: Khmer-language headline, approximately 'The Communists' Lie Was Caught on the Spot' (Communist germ-warfare charge rebutted) (Khmer poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/germ-warfare-khmer-1952/)

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