Protect Yourself Against Communist Threat (Kachin poster distributed in Rangoon)
Kachin-language version of a poster. The poster shows a screaming child in a shirt with a large star ringed by five small stars, sitting on a mat before a hammer-and-sickle outline, while a bloodied bayonet marked 'Communist' points at the child's face. The headline reads 'Communist jahkrit ai lam hpe' and the bottom line 'Magawp maga mu'. The tell is fear-appeal: an endangered child and a bloodied blade stand for what the poster says Communism does, and the bayonet label 'Communist' is the name-calling.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 4, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), 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
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters 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, June 4, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949065, 306-PPB-164).
Text on the object
COMMUNIST JAHKRIT AI LAM HPE [on bayonet:] COMMUNIST MAGAWP MAGA MU
The Communists' cruel way [approximate]. Protect yourselves [approximate; consistent with NARA's title].
Kachin translation is approximate.
