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title: The Red Target Is Your Home PO-44-E (English poster distributed in Manila)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-red-target-is-your-home-po-44-e-english-manila-1951/
description: A giant red-uniformed soldier with a sickle and hammer looms over a thatched house while smaller soldiers seize a child and a woman.
section: Collection
---

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# The Red Target Is Your Home PO-44-E (English poster distributed in Manila)

A giant red-uniformed soldier with a sickle and hammer looms over a thatched house while smaller soldiers seize a child and a woman. A text box warns that communists break up families and that in the Philippines the family is the basic group, and a strip advertises the movie 'This Is My Home'. The tell is fear-appeal: threatened children and mothers stand for the claim that the state is everything under communism.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
THE RED TARGET IS YOUR HOME!

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE -- BUT IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE! THE RECORD OF THE COMMUNISTS IS CLEAR. THEY HAVE DISRUPTED FAMILIES--BROKEN THEM APART IN EVERY LAND THEY CONTROL. HAPPY FAMILY LIFE CANNOT EXIST IN THE COMMUNIST SCHEME OF THINGS. THE STATE IS EVERYTHING.
IN THE PHILIPPINES THE FAMILY IS THE BASIC GROUP. LET US KEEP IT THAT WAY!

See the movie "THIS IS MY HOME"
```

[← Red Star Over Asia PO-24-E (English poster distributed in Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/red-star-over-asia-po-24-e-english-manila-1951/) [The Woman Who Votes Has Outdone the Man Who Didn't! (English poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-woman-who-votes-english-1951/)

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