蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 7230
Leaflet 7230, a Korean War cartoon telling Chinese troops Moscow would not give full aid
1953 UN Command (U.S. Army) leaflet 7230 for Chinese troops in Korea: a cartoon Stalin sits unmoved before Mao's request for aid. Issuer not named on the
Techniques named on the archive record
Card stacking
Date
1953
Made by
United Nations Command psychological warfare (U.S. Army), serial 7230; issuer not named on the leaflet
Wikimedia Commons (scan of a U.S. psychological warfare leaflet; image via psywarrior.com) , retrieved October 2, 2026
Source
Public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons file page) U.S. federal government (Army psychological warfare); scan via psywarrior.com; Wikimedia Commons. The file page tags it public domain as a federal work (and PD Mark 1.0); the leaflet names no issuer.
Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.
A 1953 Chinese-language cartoon leaflet, serial 7230, from United Nations Command psychological warfare run by the U.S. Army. A seated figure marked for Stalin ignores a kneeling figure marked for Zhou who holds Mao Zedong's request for aid. The leaflet names no issuer.
What the leaflet shows
A man with a pipe sits in an armchair with his hands folded. A second man kneels in front of him holding out a paper. Each figure carries a single surname character, one on a sleeve and one on a back, so the reader can tell who is who. A vertical banner runs down the right edge, and a small Korean line runs down the left.
[Banner] 蘇俄不肯全力援助中共
[Speech bubble] 參加韓戰傷亡兵員將近百萬 損失武器不可計算 請求援助
[Paper] 請求援助 毛澤東
[Translation] Soviet Russia is unwilling to give China full aid. / The officers and men who took part in the Korean War, killed and wounded, nearly a million; weapons lost beyond counting; request aid. / Request aid, Mao Zedong.
Who issued it
Nothing on the paper says. FRAME attributes it to United Nations Command psychological warfare, operated by the U.S. Army, and gives the serial 7230 printed at lower left. The scan comes from Wikimedia Commons, which took it from psywarrior.com and tags it public domain as a federal work. No NARA identifier is in the record.
How to read it
The leaflet tries to split an alliance by telling the soldier his own side's patron has abandoned him. Its strongest claim is the number in the speech bubble, "nearly a million" killed and wounded, and the leaflet gives no source for it. FRAME tags it card stacking: one set of facts, one reading, nothing that would let a reader check either.
Wartime leaflets aimed at enemy soldiers are an old and lawful instrument. Words dropped on an army are better than shells. The standard still applies: a figure without a source is a claim, not a fact, and a reader on either side of the line deserved to be told which it was. A different Korean War leaflet from the same year offered cash for a delivered jet.
Sources
FRAME object record, 蘇俄不肯全力援助中共 (Soviet Russia Is Unwilling to Give China Full Aid), leaflet 7230, 1953.
Wikimedia Commons, Demoralization Leaflet 7230 Korean War, scan via psywarrior.com, commons.wikimedia.org. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. federal government work, 17 U.S.C. 105).
