Please Help With Identification Of This Odd Note

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Westwood Arms Pillar of the Community United States 675 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 2:53 pm I do not know where this came from nor what it is. Would someone help in this regard? Would someone translate? Thank you in advance Report this Post to the Staff

DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 3:41 pm I don't know but its very interesting, that political cartoon is too cool. Is that meant to be Stalin on the left? Report this Post to the Staff
currencyden Valued Member United States 64 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 4:26 pm It's a propaganda piece. Looks like a Soviet leader forcing a Korean leader to force a lowly private to go fight. Report this Post to the Staff
1847bill Valued Member United States 401 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 4:44 pm It looks like Stalin pushing the Chinese who are then pushing north Koreans and kicking them into war. Korean conflict was active 1950-1953. Sorry I can't help on the writing. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16181 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 6:25 pm The writing is definitely Korean. I'd guess it's a propaganda leaflet air-dropped by the UN/American side, telling North Korean soldiers they shouldn't be fighting just because the USSR and China want them to. The top line on the cartoon side ends in a question mark; I'd guess it's asking something like "Is this how friends should treat you?". The text on such notes usually run along the lines of "We don't want to be forced to kill you. Surrender and show us this piece of paper and we'll feed you and treat you well". It would, of course, be a capital crime for a North Korean soldier to be found carrying such a piece of paper in North Korea. The way this one's been folded suggests somebody did keep it, and perhaps even used it. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16181 Posts	Posted 04/21/2022 6:52 pm I found a similar piece online, printed by the US 8th Army Psychological Warfare Section. The front, with a cartoon very similar to this one, translates to "Why Die for China and Russia?". The translation of the text on the back tells the story of how the Russians and Chinese are trying to set up communist puppet states throughout Asia and Korea will be the first; how the Russians are using the Chinese to fight the war, who are in turn sending in Koreans as shock troops and cannon fodder, all with the aim of enslaving Korea under Chinese and Russian rule, asking if that goal is really worth fighting and dying for. The one on that website is still pristine, as it's essentially a printer's proof submitted for approval for distribution. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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