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
- Date
- December 4, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, December 4, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730067, 306-PPA-168).
Text on the object
和平祈祷 俄狼，餓狼，和平偽裝。 金星作
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.
