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title: 和平祈祷 (Pray for Peace) / The Russian Wolf (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/russian-wolf-pray-for-peace-chinese-1951/
description: A colour cartoon in Chinese. A green-skinned, pointed-eared figure in a robe sits with palms pressed together before a hammer-and-sickle.
section: Collection
---

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# 和平祈祷 (Pray for Peace) / The Russian Wolf (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)

A colour cartoon in Chinese. A green-skinned, pointed-eared figure in a robe sits with palms pressed together before a hammer-and-sickle, and a row of wolf-headed figures in robes and red-star caps press their clawed hands together behind him. The headline says 'Pray for Peace'; the foot line puns on 'Russian wolf' and 'hungry wolf', which sound alike in Chinese, and calls peace a disguise. The tell is name-calling: Soviet and communist figures are drawn as animals, and their peace appeals are presented as a mask.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/)

## Text on the object

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

```
和平祈祷

俄狼，餓狼，和平偽裝。

金星作
```

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

```
Pray for Peace

Russian wolf, hungry wolf, peace as a disguise.

Made by Jin Xing [artist signature]
```

Printed right to left; the order above is reading order. The top character is printed as 祷.

[← Americans and the Peoples of Asia (English-language poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-and-the-peoples-of-asia-english-1951/) [Some Things Don't Need to be Seen →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-some-things-dont-need-to-be-seen-1951/)

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