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title: '"People''s Desire": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/myanmar-peoples-desire-roadside-billboard-2008/
description: 'A large red roadside billboard headed ''People''s Desire'' lists four slogans in English: oppose ''those relying on external elements acting as stooges…'
section: Collection
---

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# "People's Desire": roadside billboard, Myanmar (photographed 2008)

A large red roadside billboard headed 'People's Desire' lists four slogans in English: oppose 'those relying on external elements acting as stooges holding negative views', oppose those who 'jeopardize stability of the State', oppose 'foreign nations interfering in internal affairs', and 'crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy'. The tell is the loaded labels ('stooges', 'destructive elements', 'common enemy'), applied to unnamed groups so that no one is specified and anyone can be placed under them.

## Text on the object

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

```
People's Desire
Oppose those relying on external elements acting as stooges holding negative views
Oppose those trying to Jeopardize stability of the State and prgress of the nation
Oppose foreign nations interfering in internal affairs of the State
Crush all internal and external destructive elements as the common enemy

[neighbouring board at left edge, in Burmese script, only partly in frame: illegible]
```

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

```
The text is English, as printed, including the sign's own spelling ('prgress'). No translation needed. The partly visible board at the left edge carries Burmese script that is cut off by the frame.
```

Capitalisation of 'Jeopardize' and the misspelling 'prgress' are as printed on the sign.

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