Stop Communism (Tagalog poster distributed in the Philippines)
A Philippine-language anti-communism poster. A man in a native shirt and cap marked 'JUAN' swings a bolo labelled 'DEMOCRACY' at a large hammer and sickle that is biting into a map of the Philippine islands, and the banner gives the call to stop communism and says it is everyone's task. The tell is fear-appeal, a communist emblem shown eating away the national territory, paired with plain-folks, an everyman figure as the defender.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 13, 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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, 13 August 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730077, 306-PPA-178).
Text on the object
SUGPUIN ang Komunismo! [on bolo:] DEMOCRACIA [on cap:] JUAN ITO'Y GAWAIN NG BAWAT ISA
Suppress (Stop) Communism! This is the task of every one. [bolo:] Democracy [cap:] Juan
Bolo label printed 'DEMOCRACIA' (Spanish-style spelling) in the Tagalog edition.
