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
- Date
- February 26, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Philippine Chinese Anti-Communist League; U.S. Information Agency, 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 26, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948977, 306-PPB-111c).
Text on the object
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
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.
