--- title: Hanoi's Own Affirmations (Nhung loi xac nhan cua Ha Noi) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/affirmations-of-hanoi-1965-1969/ description: A red-banded sheet headed 'Hanoi's affirmations...' sets two quoted passages beside photographed typed documents. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Hanoi's Own Affirmations (Nhung loi xac nhan cua Ha Noi) [![Hanoi's Own Affirmations, 1965 US poster: A red-banded sheet headed 'Hanoi's affirmations...' sets two quoted passages beside](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/affirmations-of-hanoi-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/affirmations-of-hanoi-1965-1969.jpg) # Hanoi's Own Affirmations (Nhung loi xac nhan cua Ha Noi) A red-banded sheet headed 'Hanoi's affirmations...' sets two quoted passages beside photographed typed documents, each with a red crayon oval around a passage. The quotes say the southern Viet Cong party and the North Vietnamese Workers' Party are 'one', and give the documents as captured in Tay Ninh in February 1961 and Thua Thien in November 1964. The tell is selective quotation: two circled excerpts stand for the whole of each document, whose authenticity and context the sheet does not show. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Những lời xác nhận của Hànội... "...Đảng Nhân Dân Cách Mạng Việt Nam (Việt Cộng Miền Nam) và Đảng Lao Động Việt Nam là một... Không có gì khác nhau giữa hai đảng." ...đây là những điều lệ mới cho Đảng Nhân Dân Cách Mạng Việt Nam mà ta thu được của bọn Việt Cộng ở Tỉnh Chương Thiện vào tháng 11-1964. "Khi cách mạng đã đạt được thắng lợi.... đảng sẽ thực hiện minh bạch để lãnh đạo cuộc cách mạng ở Miền Nam." ...đây là những chỉ thị do Ủy Ban Việt Cộng Miền Nam đưa ra, ta bắt được tại Tỉnh Tây Ninh vào tháng 2-1961. [Photographed typed documents with red ovals, text not transcribed] 6-545 (16) ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Hanoi's affirmations... "...The Vietnam People's Revolutionary Party (the Viet Cong of the South) and the Vietnam Workers' Party are one... There is nothing different between the two parties." ...these are the new statutes for the Vietnam People's Revolutionary Party which we obtained from the Viet Cong in Chuong Thien Province in November 1964. "When the revolution has achieved victory.... the party will openly carry out [its role] to lead the revolution in the South." ...these are directives issued by the Viet Cong Southern Committee, which we captured in Tay Ninh Province in February 1961. [Photographed typed documents with red ovals, text not transcribed] 6-545 (16) ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering. The final sentence of the second quote is rendered as printed; the verb is partly ambiguous in the Vietnamese. [← The Activities of Hoi Chanh in Phuoc Long Province](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/activities-hoi-chanh-phuoc-long-province-1965-1969/) [Agression du Nord (Aggression of the North) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/agression-du-nord-aggression-of-the-north-1965/) ## 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.