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title: Puppet Poster, teachers as puppets (Thai poster, Thailand)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puppet-poster-teachers-like-puppets-thai-1956/
description: A Thai-language poster. A giant hand with a hammer-and-sickle on its cuff holds strings tied to a classroom teacher.
section: Collection
---

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# Puppet Poster, teachers as puppets (Thai poster, Thailand)

A Thai-language poster. A giant hand with a hammer-and-sickle on its cuff holds strings tied to a classroom teacher, who stands at a desk before rows of pupils and points at a blackboard where a word is crossed out. The caption states that under the communist system teachers are manipulated like puppets. The tell is fear-appeal: the classroom is shown as controlled from above, with the crossed-out word on the board signalling lost freedom.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ในระบบคอมมิวนิสม์
ครูอาจารย์ถูกเชิดเหมือนหุ่น

เสรีภาพ

พิมพ์ที่ บริษัท [illegible] จำกัด นายเปรียง แสงเกิด ผู้พิมพ์ผู้โฆษณา ๒๔๙๙
```

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

```
In the communist system,
teachers are manipulated like puppets.

Freedom (word on blackboard, crossed out)

Printed at [illegible] Co., Ltd.; Mr. Priang Saengkoet, printer and publisher, 2499 (Buddhist era; 1956).
```

Imprint is small; the printer's company name and personal name are read with low confidence.

[← Sovetskie soldaty! Russian-language appeal to Soviet troops, Budapest 1956](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungarian-youth-appeal-soviet-soldiers-1956/) [Thomas Jefferson poster, 49: Defender of Human Rights (Nepali poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thomas-jefferson-defender-human-rights-nepali-poster-49/)

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