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title: Indie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/weg-met-soekarno-lorry-slogan-1947/
description: A group of eleven Dutch soldiers in greatcoats with rifles and kitbags stands in front of army lorries on a cobbled square.
section: Collection
---

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[![Indie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/weg-met-soekarno-lorry-slogan-1947.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/weg-met-soekarno-lorry-slogan-1947.jpg)

# Indie en Nederland is EEN. Weg met Soekarno (The Indies and the Netherlands Are ONE. Down with Sukarno), slogans chalked on a troop lorry

A group of eleven Dutch soldiers in greatcoats with rifles and kitbags stands in front of army lorries on a cobbled square. On the tarpaulin of one lorry, someone has written by hand 'Indie en Nederland is EEN' and below it 'WEG MET SOEKARNO'. The tells: the first slogan states unity as a fact with no argument behind it (glittering generalities), and the second names one leader as the thing to be removed (scapegoating).

## Text on the object

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

```
Indië en Nederland is EEN

WEG MET SOEKARNO
```

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

```
The Indies and the Netherlands are ONE

AWAY WITH SUKARNO
```

Read from the 1280 px Rijksmuseum IIIF rendering; both lines are handwritten in white on the lorry's tarpaulin and the first line is underlined. The museum's own description gives the same wording. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering.

[← Saxon referendum posters in an FDJ youth display, "Pfingsten 1947"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sbz-saxon-referendum-posters-whitsun-1947/) [Boeroeh dan Tani pergoenakanlah persatoeanmoe oentoek membasmi moesoeh. Mari kita berdjoeang (Workers and Peasants, Use Your Unity to Wipe Out the Enemy. Let Us Struggle) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boeroeh-dan-tani-membasmi-moesoeh-1947/)

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