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title: Religious Oppression poster, No. 171c (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/religious-oppression-poster-171c-priests-china-czech-thai-1954/
description: Two photographs on a yellow ground. One shows a bearded priest in dark robes at a barbed-wire checkpoint, captioned as a missionary leaving Communist China
section: Collection
---

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# Religious Oppression poster, No. 171c (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)

Two photographs on a yellow ground. One shows a bearded priest in dark robes at a barbed-wire checkpoint, captioned as a missionary leaving Communist China for Hong Kong; the other shows a robed man at a microphone before a bench in a courtroom, captioned as a Dominican priest tried in Communist Czechoslovakia. The tell is card-stacking: two cases are offered as the pattern, with no figures or sources on the sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
นักบวชในศาสนาโรมันคาธอลิคกำลังออก
จากด่านตรวจสุดท้ายของประเทศจีนคอม
มูนิสต์ไปสู่เสรีภาพในฮ่องกง นักบวชผู้นี้เป็น
คนหนึ่งในพวกมิชชันรี่กลุ่มใหญ่ที่ถูกจีน
เนรเทศ เมื่อปล่อยออกจากคุกแล้ว บุคคลผู้
นำทางศาสนาของทุกลัทธิหลายพันคน
ต้องถูกฆ่าหรือถูกทรมานตามแผนการที่ได้
รับบัญชาจากมอสโคว์เพื่อล้มล้างศาสนาให้
หมดไปจากประเทศจีน

ในประเทศเชโกสโลวาเกียที่ถูกคอมมูนิสต์ควบคุม นักบวชในนิกายคอมินิกัน
คาธอลิคถูกขึ้นศาลเพื่อพิจารณาโทษ เพราะข้อหาว่าเป็นผู้แพร่ข่าวอกุศลไปว่า
รัฐบาลคอมมูนิสต์กำลังล่มจมแล้ว เล่ห์กลการพิจารณาทำนองนี้เป็นวิธีการ
ของพวกคอมมูนิสต์เพื่อพยายามให้ประชาชนหมดความเชื่อใจในศาสนา
```

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

```
A Roman Catholic priest is leaving the last checkpoint of Communist China for freedom in Hong Kong. This priest is one of a large group of missionaries expelled by China. After being released from prison, thousands of religious leaders of every denomination have had to be killed or tortured according to a plan ordered from Moscow to wipe out religion from China.

In Czechoslovakia, which is controlled by the Communists, a priest of the Dominican Catholic order is put on trial on a charge of spreading bad news that the Communist government is collapsing. Trials of this kind are a method of the Communists to try to make the people lose all trust in religion.
```

Thai spacing approximated; reading by eye.

[← Religious Oppression poster, No. 171b (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/religious-oppression-poster-171b-buddha-statue-thai-1954/) [Communist Threat to Religion poster (Thai, Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communist-threat-to-religion-thai-1954/)

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