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title: 'Hungary''s Fight for Freedom, 111c: Can You Bear Their Suffering? (Chinese-English poster distributed in Manila)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungarys-fight-for-freedom-111c-bear-their-suffering-chinese-manila-1957/
description: A blue poster headed 'Hungary's Fight for Freedom' with a photograph of a woman in a headscarf and long coat bending over a flower-covered stretcher
section: Collection
---

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# Hungary's Fight for Freedom, 111c: Can You Bear Their Suffering? (Chinese-English poster distributed in Manila)

A blue poster headed 'Hungary's Fight for Freedom' with a photograph of a woman in a headscarf and long coat bending over a flower-covered stretcher and a body beside a row of small markers in a park. Large Chinese characters say the people behind the Iron Curtain are in deep suffering; an English caption asks 'Can You Bear Their Suffering?'. The tell is the photograph used as testimony, with the question addressed to the viewer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HUNGARY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

• 支援匈牙利人民為自由而戰 •

鐵幕人民
水深火熱

Can You Bear Their
Suffering?

菲律濱華僑反共抗俄總會
PHILIPPINE CHINESE ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE
```

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

```
Hungary's Fight for Freedom. Support the Hungarian people fighting for freedom. The people behind the Iron Curtain are in deep water and hot fire (in extreme suffering). Can You Bear Their Suffering? Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian General League.
```

Large display characters read in columns from right to left, top to bottom.

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