Kremlin's Words and Deeds (English poster distributed in Asia)
An English-language sheet comparing UN welfare aid. Bar charts of U.S. and 'Other Nations' contributions sit beside a Soviet hammer-and-sickle hand giving a thumbs-down, a table lists the Soviets at 0 in each program, and photographs show children, displaced persons, Korean refugees and medical aid. The tell is card-stacking, one measure standing for each side's record, and name-calling in 'Stalinists', 'imperialistic propaganda' and 'dictatorship'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- 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 5729981, 306-PPA-80).
Text on the object
KREMLIN'S WORDS AND DEEDS UNITED STATES OTHER NATIONS SOVIETS The Record of United Nations Welfare Aid (By Millions of Dollars) PROGRAM U.S. Others Soviets Children's Fund 75.0 32.2 0 Palestine Refugees 43.5 38.7 0 International Refugees 237.1 158.4 0 Technical Assistance 12.0 8.0 0 World Health 6.9 1.1 0 Korean Relief 162.5 87.7 0 Stalinists often use international agencies as sounding boards for their imperialistic propaganda. At a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in Geneva the Kremlin's delegate accused the United States of arming western Europe instead of helping better the conditions of underprivileged peoples. This false charge was a strange one from a dictatorship that contributes nothing to great movements aimed at helping the world's unfortunate and disaster-stricken peoples. Children of many lands have found health, happiness through benefits of the Children's Emergency Fund. The International Refugee Organization found homes for persons displaced by war's turmoil. Many went to America. Terroristic aggression, abetted by the Kremlin, forced peaceful Koreans from their homes. The free nations, fighting this aggression, found time to provide succor. Free World contributions enable the World Health Organization to provide treatment for the sick and maimed.
