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title: Thai Rice Harvest, PO-19-TH (Thai poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thai-rice-harvest-po-19-th-thai-1951/
description: A Thai-language color poster showing two uniformed men with red-star caps, one raising a whip and one holding a bloodied blade labelled 'Communist'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Thai Rice Harvest, PO-19-TH, 1951 US poster: A Thai-language color poster showing two uniformed men with red-star caps, one](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/thai-rice-harvest-po-19-th-thai-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/thai-rice-harvest-po-19-th-thai-1951.jpg)

# Thai Rice Harvest, PO-19-TH (Thai poster distributed in Asia)

A Thai-language color poster showing two uniformed men with red-star caps, one raising a whip and one holding a bloodied blade labelled 'Communist', over bare-backed farmers loading sacks marked 'Thai rice'. A line of carriers winds toward a burning horizon and a giant skull. The red caption says whoever comes to own the land must use force and coercion. The tell is fear-appeal, with a single label, 'Communist', standing for every threat shown (name-calling).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ใครมาเป็นเจ้าเข้าครอง คงจะต้องบังคับขับไส

[on blade:] คอมมิวนิสต์
[on sack:] ข้าวไทย
[second sack:] [illegible]
```

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

```
Whoever comes to be the master and take possession will surely have to use force and drive [the people] on. [on blade:] Communist. [on sack:] Thai rice.
```

Second sack lettering is partly hidden and not legible.

[← Everybody's Listening to America Calling the Philippines (English poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/everybodys-listening-america-calling-the-philippines-1951/) [Dili Na Kami Mga Tawo! ("We Are No Longer Human Beings!") (Cebuano poster distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-cebuano-1951/)

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