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title: Totalitarianism Is Your Enemy, PO-230-B (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/totalitarianism-is-your-enemy-po-230-b-burmese-rangoon-1954/
description: A Burmese-language color poster of an older man in a head-cloth, white jacket and striped longyi, standing against a blue ground with his arm and finger
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# Totalitarianism Is Your Enemy, PO-230-B (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)

A Burmese-language color poster of an older man in a head-cloth, white jacket and striped longyi, standing against a blue ground with his arm and finger pointed straight at the viewer. Two lines of red Burmese lettering run across his body. NARA titles the sheet 'Totalitarianism is Your Enemy'. The tell is name-calling, with 'totalitarianism' as an enemy label, and plain-folks, with an ordinary villager figure addressing the viewer directly.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
အာဏာရှင်စနစ်သည် သင့်ရန်သူ
```

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

```
Totalitarianism [dictatorship] is your enemy (matched to NARA's English title).
```

Stylised red script, two lines; the reading is approximate and is aligned to NARA's title.

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