--- title: '1966: Một năm tiến bộ (1966: A Year of Progress)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/1966-a-year-of-progress-long-an-1966/ description: 'A photo-and-text sheet headlined ''1966: A Year of Progress'' lists Long An province''s public works for the year: 60 classrooms.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 1966: Một năm tiến bộ (1966: A Year of Progress) [![1966: Một năm tiến bộ, 1966 US poster: A photo-and-text sheet headlined '1966](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/1966-a-year-of-progress-long-an-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/1966-a-year-of-progress-long-an-1966.jpg) # 1966: Một năm tiến bộ (1966: A Year of Progress) A photo-and-text sheet headlined '1966: A Year of Progress' lists Long An province's public works for the year: 60 classrooms, 27,000 metres of road and bridges, fish ponds and markets, 690 pigs and 3,200 chickens issued to farmers, and about 100 self-help projects. Each red text block pairs a figure with a photograph of schoolchildren, road-building villagers, a pig pen or a market. The tell: a one-sided ledger of completed projects, with the Viet Cong named only as an obstacle to them. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1966: MỘT NĂM TIẾN BỘ 60 phòng học đã xây cất xong tại các ấp Tân sinh, thu nhận thêm 3600 em học sinh. Nhờ quyết tâm của Chính-quyền và nhân dân, tương lai nước nhà sẽ được sáng sủa. Nhân dân, quân đội và cán bộ Chính quyền tỉnh Long-An đã thực hiện được nhiều công tác hữu ích trong năm 1966. Công tác xây dựng gồm có hàng ngàn thước đường được sửa chữa, cầu, cầu tàu được xây cất, nhiều lớp học, hồ nuôi cá đã được hoàn tất và nhiều nông dân đã được cấp phát giống gia súc như heo, gà. Dầu V.C nỗ lực khủng bố và phá hoại nhân dân tỉnh cũng đã hoàn tất được gần 100 dự án tự túc. Dự án tự túc: Trong năm 1966 Chính phủ đã giúp dân chúng hơn 3.500.000$ để hoàn thành 96 dự án tự túc. Hình trên: Đồng bào ấp ngã tư Kỳ-Sơn đang góp công trải đá làm con đường vào trường học của ấp. 27.000 thước đường và nhiều cầu, cầu tàu đã được tân tạo, tu bổ với tốn phí 16.987.504$. Đây là một trong hai chợ cá đã được xây cất trong năm 1966. 75 ao cá đã được thiết lập và 50.000 con cá chép giống đã được cấp phát cho nông dân. Trong năm 1966 nông dân tại các ấp Tân sinh đã được cấp phát 690 con heo và 3200 con gà giống để chăn nuôi. [sign in photograph: PHÁT TRIỂN HỆ ... XÂY DỰNG ĐỜI MỚI, partly illegible] [sign: CHỢ CÁ] SP-1704 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` 1966: A YEAR OF PROGRESS 60 classrooms have been built in the New Life hamlets, taking in 3,600 more pupils. Thanks to the determination of the Government and the people, the nation's future will be bright. The people, army and cadres of the Long An provincial government accomplished many useful works in 1966. The construction work includes thousands of metres of road repaired, bridges and landing stages built, many classrooms and fish ponds completed, and many farmers issued breeding livestock such as pigs and chickens. Despite the V.C.'s efforts at terror and sabotage, the people of the province also completed nearly 100 self-help projects. Self-help projects: In 1966 the Government helped the people with more than 3,500,000 [piastres] to complete 96 self-help projects. Picture above: Compatriots of the Ky Son crossroads hamlet contributing labour to lay stones for the road to the hamlet school. 27,000 metres of road and many bridges and landing stages were newly built or repaired at a cost of 16,987,504 [piastres]. This is one of two fish markets built in 1966. 75 fish ponds were established and 50,000 carp fingerlings were issued to farmers. In 1966 farmers in the New Life hamlets were issued 690 pigs and 3,200 breeding chickens to raise. [sign in photograph: DEVELOPMENT OF ... BUILDING A NEW LIFE, partly illegible] [sign: FISH MARKET] SP-1704 ``` [← Why Vietnam (USIS London pamphlet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/usis-why-vietnam-pamphlet-1965/) [32 Quy-chánh viên hữu công được tưởng thưởng (32 Meritorious Returnees Win Awards) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/32-quy-chanh-vien-huu-cong-duoc-tuong-thuong-sp-1198-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.