The following set of anti-Communist propaganda pictures six appear to have originated from Thailand in the 1960s. That’s about all I know from the little information provided on He Xie Shang An (River Crab Goes Ashore). For those who don’t yet know, “river crab” is a pun on the Chinese word for “harmony/harmonious”, which many Chinese netizens are quite tired of given that it tends to pop up in far too many modern government proclamations and exhortations. Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and translated the Chinese captions. I have no idea whether or not they are translations of the original Thai captions.
中共学校在灌输共产主义向东南亚的扩张计划，泰王国学校在教授正规的文理科知识。
“Communist Chinese schools are indoctrinating the Communist plan to expand towards Southeast Asia.
The Kingdom of Thailand’s school are teaching standard/appropriate arts and sciences knowledge.”
中国人民被剥夺了迁徙和远程交通的自由；泰王国人民则相反。
“Chinese people stripped of the freedom to migrate or travel long distances.
The Kingdom of Thailand is the opposite.”
共产党强行拆散老百姓的家人； 泰王国的人民安居乐业。$
“The Communist Party forcefully breaks apart the common people’s family members.
The Kingdom of Thailand’s people live and work in peace and happiness.”
共产党肥公损私，不允许中国人民有足够的私人财产，泰王国人民则生活富足。
“The Communist Party makes fattens the public and deprives the private, not allowing the Chinese people to have sufficient private property.
The people of the Kingdom of Thailand however live comfortably in abundance.”
中国人民被共产党强制义务劳动；泰王国人民可以自主安排劳作。
“The Chinese people are forced to perform voluntary labor.
The people of the Kingdom of Thailand can freely arrange their own labor.”
产党拆除佛像、逮捕佛教僧侣；泰王国则充分保护佛教信仰的自由。
“The Communist Party tears down images of Bhudda and arrest Buddhist monks; the Kingdom of Thailand however fully protects the freedoms of Buddhist believers.”
Is propaganda still propaganda if you agree with it?
This is interesting and very much relevant to my family back in the day. On my mother’s side I have both relatives in China and in Thailand. During the war, my uncle in China did have to hide away for years while my aunt was left taking care of my cousins. While my family in Thailand was always together. My relatives in China didn’t have much to eat, while my relatives in Thailand had plenty.
I found it most interesting that the anti-Communist posters mentioned arrest Buddhist monks but not arresting the Royal family as happened in Laos.
Perhaps even the thought was lèse majesté!
given the choice, in 1960s where would you have prefered to live? China or Thailand?
And today?
ทุกวันนี้ ประเทศไทยไร้ขื่อแป ไร้ความยุติธรรม และด้อยพัฒนายิ่งกว่าประเทศจีนคอมมูนิสต์เสียอีก…..????!!!!
while, China is really strict and while Thailand students have nice teachers.
I prefer UK!! because I was born under former British Territory of Hong Kong, I understood how bad pf CCP and what they have done before on former British Territory and now I hate HKSAR very much!!! I only love Hong Kong under British rule and it was great under British at that time, without British, Hong Kong is NOTHING!!! I’m proud of being British now!!!
The Kingdom of Thailand is a capitalist dictatorship. Their king is authoritarian and oppressive. The nation is poor and only the royal family and their capitalist friends are rich and powerful.
Maoist China was indeed a totalitarian state, but the Kingdom of Thailand is authoritarian and not democratic or free. Maoism and monarchism are bot undemocratic and not free.
Down with the Chinese ”Communist” Party
Down with the monarchy in Thailand