Kẻ mưu phá hại hòa-bình thế-giới (The plotter who destroys world peace), 1951 US poster: A Vietnamese poster showing

Kẻ mưu phá hại hòa-bình thế-giới (The plotter who destroys world peace) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam; NARA title: Viet Poster #4)

A Vietnamese poster showing a shirtless, moustached man in cap and boots driving a long spear through a white dove in front of a globe. The headline calls him the plotter against world peace, and the caption says Stalin kills the dove and brutally provokes a world war. The tell is name-calling by symbol: the dove, a peace emblem, is shown speared, turning the peace-campaign imagery against the leader it accuses.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
March 1, 1951
Period
Cold War
Made by
U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Truman Administration
Leader
Harry S. Truman
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Demonize
Theme
War and the military
Event
Cold War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730137, 306-PPA-236).

Text on the object

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

KẺ MƯU PHÁ HẠI HÒA-BÌNH THẾ-GIỚI.

Xít-ta-lin giết bồ câu,
Bạo tàn gây hấn hoàn cầu chiến tranh.

[signature: Văn An]
[typed archival label: VIET POSTER #4]

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

THE PLOTTER WHO DESTROYS WORLD PEACE.

Stalin kills the dove,
Brutally provoking world war.

Machine translation, not verified by a fluent reader.