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title: Kaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kaoem-boeroeh-kaoem-tani-bersatoelah-1949/
description: A hand-drawn poster in a ruled border calls on 'workers and peasants of all nations and religions' to unite.
section: Collection
---

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[![Kaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kaoem-boeroeh-kaoem-tani-bersatoelah-1949.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kaoem-boeroeh-kaoem-tani-bersatoelah-1949.jpg)

# Kaoem Boeroeh dan Kaoem-Tani dari segala Bangsa dan Agama Bersatoelah!!! (Workers and Peasants of All Nations and Religions, Unite!!!)

A hand-drawn poster in a ruled border calls on 'workers and peasants of all nations and religions' to unite. Two farmers in conical hats stand among produce in the lower left; a train, a ship, a lorry, aircraft, factory chimneys and a fortified gate fill the rest, under the Indonesian flag and a second flag bearing a star. It is signed 'Oleh Marhaen' (by Marhaen). The tells: the signature takes the name of the common smallholder as the speaker (plain folks), and 'all nations and religions, unite' carries the appeal without any stated programme (glittering generalities).

## Text on the object

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

```
KAOEM BOEROEH dan KAOEM-TANI
dari segala BANGSA dan AGAMA
BERSATOELAH!!!

[small, lower centre:] OLEH MARHAEN
[small, lower right corner, signature or mark:] [illegible]
```

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

```
WORKERS and PEASANTS
of every NATION and RELIGION
UNITE!!!

[lower centre:] BY MARHAEN
```

Read from the 1280 px Commons rendering. The spelling is the pre-1947 orthography (oe for u). The small mark at the lower right is not legible. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Lenin, Rákosi and Stalin portraits: Innovation and Invention Exhibition, Budapest](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-lenin-rakosi-stalin-exhibition-1949/) [FDJ march-past banners at the 2nd World Festival of Youth, Budapest →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-banners-budapest-world-youth-festival-1949/)

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