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title: 'Religious Oppression poster 171g: Kalmyk monks and Chinese parade (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/religious-oppression-171g-kalmyk-monks-china-parade-thai-1954/
description: A yellow sheet with two photographs and Thai captions. The upper one shows two Kalmyk Buddhist monks at shrines with hanging paintings.
section: Collection
---

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# Religious Oppression poster 171g: Kalmyk monks and Chinese parade (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)

A yellow sheet with two photographs and Thai captions. The upper one shows two Kalmyk Buddhist monks at shrines with hanging paintings, said to have escaped the Soviet Union and now able to worship freely in the United States. The lower one shows three men in a street parade in China in November 1951 with banners, one dressed as a priest holding a radio, shown as a Communist demonstration against Christian missionary hospitals. The tell is card-stacking: two images and the printed assertions carry a general claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
บัดนี้ชาวกาลมุค ซึ่งหนีจากสหภาพโซเวียตมาสู่โลกเสรี สามารถประกอบพิธีพุทธศาสนาของตนได้อีกแล้ว ชาวกาลมุคเหล่านี้อพยพจากทิเบตเข้าไปอยู่ในรัสเซียเมื่อ ๓๐๐ ปีกว่ามาแล้ว ในตอนต้นของสงครามโลกครั้งที่สอง ยังมีชนเผ่านี้อยู่ในสหภาพโซเวียตถึง ๑๓๔,๐๐๐ คน แต่หลังจากนั้นมาก็ถูกกวาดล้างให้กลายเป็นพลเมืองของสหภาพโซเวียตไป แต่นักบวชในภาพนี้หนีรอดออกมาอยู่ในสหรัฐได้

พวกคอมมูนิสต์ในประเทศจีน เดินขบวนต่อต้านศาสนาเมื่อเดือนพฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. ๒๔๙๔ พวกคอมมูนิสต์เหล่านี้แสดงว่าเป็นโรงพยาบาลคริสเตียนในประเทศจีน ชายคนที่อยู่ทางซ้ายมือถือเข็มฉีดยาซึ่งบนนั้นเขียนไว้ว่า "ผู้ฉีดความคิดเห็นของอเมริกา" คนที่อยู่ตรงกลางถือแผ่นกระดาษที่กล่าวถึงชีวิตของชาวอเมริกันตามโฆษณาหลอกลวงของคอมมูนิสต์ คนทางขวาแต่งตัวเป็นนักบวชถือเครื่องรับวิทยุ พวกคอมมูนิสต์พยายามจะเล่าแจ้งให้ประชาชนทราบว่านักบวชทั้งหลายล้วนเป็นผู้สอดแนมความลับ โรงพยาบาลคริสเตียนแห่งนี้ได้ช่วยเหลือประชาชนจีนมาแล้วเป็นเวลาหลายปีทีเดียว
```

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

```
Now the Kalmyks, who fled from the Soviet Union to the free world, can again perform their Buddhist rites. These Kalmyks migrated from Tibet into Russia more than 300 years ago. At the start of the Second World War there were still 134,000 of this tribe in the Soviet Union, but after that they were purged and made into citizens of the Soviet Union. The monks in this picture, however, escaped and have been able to settle in the United States.

Communists in China held an anti-religion parade in November B.E. 2494 [1951]. These Communists were representing a Christian hospital in China. The man on the left holds a hypodermic needle on which is written "injector of American opinion". The man in the middle holds a sheet of paper that refers to the lives of Americans according to the Communists' deceptive advertising. The man on the right is dressed as a priest holding a radio receiver. The Communists tried to inform the public that all priests are secret-spies. This Christian hospital had been helping the Chinese people for many years.
```

Chinese-script banner and placards in the lower photograph are partly legible and not transcribed.

[← Religious Oppression poster 171f: Buddha and Christ caricatures (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/religious-oppression-171f-buddha-christ-caricatures-thai-1954/) [Religious Oppression poster, No. 171a (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/religious-oppression-poster-171a-masked-priests-thai-1954/)

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