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
- Date
- 1956
- 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
- Labor, Elections and party politics
- 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, c. 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949125, 306-PPB-217).
Text on the object
ในระบบคอมมิวนิสม์ ครูอาจารย์ถูกเชิดเหมือนหุ่น เสรีภาพ พิมพ์ที่ บริษัท [illegible] จำกัด นายเปรียง แสงเกิด ผู้พิมพ์ผู้โฆษณา ๒๔๙๙
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.
