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title: Is there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unc-die-for-soviets-and-china-leaflet-1951/
description: A red-ink cartoon leaflet in Korean. A uniformed figure standing for the Soviet Union pushes a soldier labelled 'Chinese Communist army', who in turn…
section: Collection
---

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[![Is there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/unc-die-for-soviets-and-china-leaflet-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/unc-die-for-soviets-and-china-leaflet-1951.jpg)

# Is there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?

A red-ink cartoon leaflet in Korean. A uniformed figure standing for the Soviet Union pushes a soldier labelled 'Chinese Communist army', who in turn pushes a bayonet-armed soldier labelled 'North Korean army' toward a shell burst. The headline asks whether there is any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China. The tell: the war is recast as a foreign errand with the North Korean soldier at the front, and what the alternative to dying would be is left unstated.

## Text on the object

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

```
소련과 중공을 위해서
죽엄을 택할 필요가 있는가?

(on the figures) 중공군 / 북한군
(near the burst) 한국
```

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

```
Is there any need to choose death for the Soviet Union and Communist China?

(on the figures) Chinese Communist army / North Korean army
(near the burst) Korea
```

Read from a 375 x 294 px image; 죽엄 is the period spelling of 죽음 (death). The small labels are partly obscured by the cartoon and are read at low resolution; the label near the burst is read as 한국 (Korea).

[← 行駛的軍車是好目標 (Moving Military Vehicles Are Good Targets), leaflet no. 8526, Chinese](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-command-moving-vehicles-target-leaflet-8526-1951/) [Air raid warning: Citizens of Pyongyang, leave quickly →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unc-pyongyang-citizens-air-raid-warning-leaflet-1951/)

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