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Russia's Words and Deeds [Kremlin's Words and Deeds], 1952 US poster: A Burmese-language edition of a sheet comparing United

Russia's Words and Deeds [Kremlin's Words and Deeds] (Burmese poster distributed in Burma)

A Burmese-language edition of a sheet comparing United Nations welfare aid. Bar charts show the United States and 'Other Nations' as larger stacks of contributions beside a Soviet hand with a thumbs-down, a table gives 'Soviets' 0 in every program, and four photographs show children, refugees and medical care. The tell is card-stacking: one measure, UN welfare contributions, stands for the whole record of each side, and the Soviet figures are shown only as zeros.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stackingName-calling
Date
January 9, 1952
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
Themes
Economy and finance, War and the military
Event
Cold 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, January 9, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729980, 306-PPA-79).

Text on the object

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

ရုရှား၏အပြောနှင့်အလုပ်
UNITED STATES
OTHER NATIONS
SOVIETS
[Burmese table heading, row labels and figures: not reliably legible at this resolution]
[Burmese body paragraph and four photograph captions: not reliably legible at this resolution]

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

Russia's Words and Deeds [title]. UNITED STATES. OTHER NATIONS. SOVIETS. The Burmese body paragraph, table and photograph captions correspond to the text of the English edition (NAID 5729981): see that entry for the English wording; this translation of them is inferred from the matching layout and is not a literal reading of the Burmese.

Only the title and the three English labels were read verbatim; the Burmese body text could not be transcribed with confidence.

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