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Chinese Border Defence 1970s | PLA Cavalry Propaganda Poster
Chinese Border Defence 1970s | PLA Cavalry Propaganda Poster
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A Chinese People's Liberation Army poster showing soldiers and civilians on horseback defending China's mountainous frontier. The composition depicts the cavalry patrols that remained essential along China's western borders throughout the 1970s, rendered in the Socialist Realist style.
Designed during the Cultural Revolution period around 1975 for the Chinese military propaganda department. The poster promotes military-civilian cooperation in border defence, reflecting the ongoing border tensions with the Soviet Union that shaped Chinese military policy throughout the decade.
The bold red Chinese text declares 'Military-civilian joint border defence, hundredfold vigilance guard the frontier'. This poster exemplifies how Chinese propaganda art combined patriotic messaging with practical military communication during one of the most politically charged periods in modern Chinese history.
Reproduced as an archival print for collectors of propaganda art and students of Cold War visual culture.
