蘇維埃的共產主義威脅教育 (Soviet Communism Threatens Education), 1952 US poster: A Chinese-language poster

蘇維埃的共產主義威脅教育 (Soviet Communism Threatens Education) (Chinese poster distributed in Malaya)

A Chinese-language poster. A red-uniformed caricature with a hammer-and-sickle armband leans over a schoolboy, holding up a book titled 'Lies of the Communist Party' against a smaller one titled 'Truth'. The text says communists stifle education where they rule, warns Malaya would share that fate, and urges parents and teachers to defend educational freedom. The tell is fear-appeal, a menacing caricature standing for a whole movement, paired with glittering-generalities in the call to defend 'educational freedom'.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appeal Glittering generalities

Date: June 20, 1952
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: Persuade or win support
Themes: Media and information, Elections and party politics
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, June 20, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730072, 306-PPA-173).

Text on the object

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

蘇維埃的共產主義威脅教育

共產黨在它所控制的地方，儘量窒息了教育。
如果你們讓共產黨進來，馬來亞也會遭遇同樣的命運。

保衛你們教育的自由。
大家來幫助組織家長教師聯誼會，並負起對這聯誼會所應負的職責。
大家共同努力改善你們的學校，使你們也可以引以為榮。

你們享受了教育的自由，應好好的保障這種自由。

[on book:] 共產黨的謊言
[on book:] 真理

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

Headline: The Soviet communist threat to education.

Where the Communist Party controls, it does its utmost to stifle education.
If you let the Communist Party in, Malaya will suffer the same fate.

Defend your freedom of education.
Everyone help organise parent-teacher associations and take up the responsibilities that fall on such associations.
Everyone work together to improve your schools so that you can take pride in them.

You have enjoyed freedom of education; you should protect this freedom well.

[on book:] Lies of the Communist Party
[on book:] Truth

Headline is set as a character grid and transcribed reading across the rows; the arrangement is slightly ambiguous.