Red Star Over Asia PO-24-E (English poster distributed in Manila)
A caricatured uniformed figure with a hammer-and-sickle armband kneels on a bleeding man, raising a bloody red star like a dagger. Side panels set six 'Slave World Facts' against six 'Free World Facts', under the banner 'Communists seek more slaves!' The tell is a two-column contrast: the statistics (square miles gained and granted) and the slogans are chosen to favour one side, and the enemy is drawn as a brute.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 3, 1951
- 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
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, October 3, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949070, 306-PPB-169).
Text on the object
RED STAR OVER ASIA SLAVE WORLD FACTS - The Communists seek to place all Asia under the Soviet Slave Empire! - To bring this about the Communists have promoted bloody civil strife throughout Asia! - In all this strife the Soviet Imperialists have made sure that it is Asian and not Russian blood that spilled! - Communist China has been added to the Soviet Slave Empire. Korea was next, but the United Nations are preventing it! - Since World War II the Red Imperialists have added more than 2,166,009 square miles of Asian territory to the Soviet Slave Empire. At the same time the Free World has given full independence to 3,074,551 square miles of Asian territory! - This is not idle talk! These are facts! FREE WORLD FACTS - The Free World believes all nations are equal and should be independent! - The Free World believes in peace and prosperity for all nations! - The Free World wants for Asia the same things Asians want for themselves! - The Free World is actively helping Asia throw off the poverty and oppression of past centuries! - Since World War II in Asia one-fourth of the population of the world have attained self-rule and independence. The Communists seek to build a Soviet Slave Empire in Asia! The Free World seeks peace and abundance for all! - The Free World has nothing to hide! These are facts! COMMUNISTS SEEK MORE SLAVES! [handwritten, upper right:] RPC - Manila
