Content note: Caricatures of Stalin, Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, one figure kneeling before Stalin. This object is shown as it was published. Why
蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 7230
A Chinese-language cartoon leaflet: a pipe-smoking figure in an armchair marked with the character for Stalin's name sits with folded hands while a kneeling figure marked with the character for Zhou holds out a paper headed 'request aid, Mao Zedong'. The speech bubble gives casualties of 'nearly a million' and weapons losses 'beyond counting'. The tell is the unsourced casualty figure and the single reading offered for Soviet conduct: the leaflet presents one set of facts to prove the Soviet Union is withholding help.
- Date
- 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- United Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 7230; issuer not named on the leaflet
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of a U.S. psychological warfare leaflet; image via psywarrior.com), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons file page)
U.S. federal government (Army psychological warfare); scan via psywarrior.com; Wikimedia Commons. The file page tags it public domain as a federal work (and PD Mark 1.0); the leaflet names no issuer.
Text on the object
[Right banner, vertical:] 蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 [Speech bubble:] 參加韓戰傷亡兵員將近百萬 損失武器不可計算 請求援助 [Paper held by kneeling figure:] 請求援助 毛澤東 [Character on Stalin figure's sleeve:] 史 [Character on kneeling figure's back:] 周 [Left edge, Korean, vertical, partly uncertain:] 이것은 중공군에게 보내는 우리의 글이니 그들이 볼수있게 전해주십시오 [uncertain] [Lower left:] 7230
[Banner] Soviet Russia is unwilling to give China full aid. [Bubble] The officers and men who took part in the Korean War, killed and wounded, nearly a million; weapons lost beyond counting; request aid. [Paper] Request aid, Mao Zedong. [Sleeve] Shi. [Back] Zhou. [Korean note] This is our writing to the Chinese Communist soldiers, so please pass it on so that they can see it.
The Korean edge note is small and low-resolution; its second line is the least certain reading. The sleeve and back characters are surname marks on the figures.
