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title: Sacrifice for Your Country poster (Khmer poster distributed in Saigon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sacrifice-for-your-country-poster-174-khmer-saigon-1954/
description: A blue, green and orange Khmer-language poster. A hat-wearing soldier in green fatigues crosses a flooded paddy with an automatic weapon.
section: Collection
---

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# Sacrifice for Your Country poster (Khmer poster distributed in Saigon)

A blue, green and orange Khmer-language poster. A hat-wearing soldier in green fatigues crosses a flooded paddy with an automatic weapon, mouth open as if shouting, while four more soldiers wade behind him toward hills. Two lines of stylised Khmer lettering fill the sky. NARA titles it 'Sacrifice for Your Country'. The tell is glittering-generalities: sacrifice and country are the whole appeal, carried by the heroic soldier image.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[illegible: two lines of stylised Khmer display lettering in the sky]
```

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

```
Not read from the image. NARA's title for the sheet is "Sacrifice for Your Country".
```

The headline is in decorative angular lettering and was not transcribed; no other text is printed on the sheet.

[← Cambodian Blood poster, item 92 (Khmer, distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cambodian-blood-poster-92-khmer-1954/) [Communists Are Your Enemy poster (Kachin, Rangoon) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communists-are-your-enemy-kachin-1954/)

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