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
- Date
- February 19, 1954
- 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
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters 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, February 19, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949110, 306-PPB-202).
Text on the object
အာဏာရှင်စနစ်သည် သင့်ရန်သူ
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.
