Story of Hungary poster No. 1: Comes to the Philippines (English, Manila)
Six captioned photographs of Philippine events with Hungarian refugees of the 1956 revolution: a Chinese anti-Communist rally, mourners at a roadside body, nuns and students with a book on Soviet 'atrocities', a Rotary Club of Manila luncheon with the Defense Secretary, and farmers. Centre text quotes 'freedom fighters' telling Filipinos freedom 'has been crushed but desire for freedom lives on'. The tell is testimonial and bandwagon: eyewitness voices and named Filipino groups and officials are shown backing one account.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 7, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. IIE program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Migration
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 7, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949043, 306-PPB-151a).
Text on the object
STORY OF HUNGARY Comes to the Philippines PHILIPPINES CHINESE RALLY IN HONOR OF THE HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS CHINESE Anti-Communist League honors brave Hungarian freedom fighters who fought to win freedom from Soviet oppression. HUNGARIAN PATRIOTS mourn beside unarmed friends killed by troops as Soviet's army crushed Hungary's freedom revolt. TWO NUNS listen as freedom fighter relates eyewitness account of Russian brutalities in suppressing Hungary's freedom bid. ROTARY CLUB OF MANILA DEFENSE SECRETARY Jesus Vargas and Francisco Delgado, Rotary President, listen to stirring account of Hungary revolt. EAGER HANDS of students reach for book telling true story of atrocities committed by Soviet troops in Hungarian Revolution. HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS TELL FILIPINOS: "FREEDOM IN HUNGARY HAS BEEN CRUSHED BUT DESIRE FOR FREEDOM LIVES ON!" WELCOME HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS FEDERATION of FREE FARMERS FREEDOM FIGHTERS tell free farmers how communists take land and crops for themselves while poverty-stricken peasants starve. SUPPLEMENT TO Free World VOLUME VI Nº11 NOVEMBER 1957
Photograph banner text partly cropped in the original (WELCOME / [HUN]GARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS / [FEDERATION] of FREE FARMERS) and Chinese characters on the rally banner are not transcribed.
