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title: Compatriots, Ask Yourselves poster 407 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/compatriots-ask-yourselves-poster-407-vietnamese-saigon-1964/
description: A text-only Vietnamese sheet headed 'Compatriots, ask yourselves'. Six bulleted questions ask who forces peasants to pay money and rice, robs ferries.
section: Collection
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[![Compatriots, Ask Yourselves poster 407, 1964 US poster: A text-only Vietnamese sheet headed 'Compatriots, ask yourselves'.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/compatriots-ask-yourselves-poster-407-vietnamese-saigon-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/compatriots-ask-yourselves-poster-407-vietnamese-saigon-1964.jpg)

# Compatriots, Ask Yourselves poster 407 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)

A text-only Vietnamese sheet headed 'Compatriots, ask yourselves'. Six bulleted questions ask who forces peasants to pay money and rice, robs ferries, press-gangs youths, fires on women and children, makes sons kill fathers and murders patriots, and answers each with 'the Communist traitors themselves'. A boxed closing line calls on everyone to oppose their robbing and killing. The tell is name-calling and scapegoating: one named group is made the single author of every harm.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Đồng bào thử hỏi :

* AI CƯỠNG BÁCH NÔNG DÂN LÀM XÂU,
ĐÓNG TIỀN, NỘP LÚA ?
* AI GIỰT MÌN XE ĐÒ, CƯỚP HÀNG HÓA,
TIỀN BẠC HÀNH KHÁCH ?
* AI BẮT CÓC THANH NIÊN ĐI LÍNH,
BẮN GIẾT ĐỒNG BÀO VÔ TỘI ?
* AI LIỆNG LỰU ĐẠN GIẾT HẠI ĐÀN BÀ
TRẺ CON ?
* AI GÂY NÊN CẢNH CON GIẾT
CHA, ANH EM GIẾT NHAU ?
* AI THỦ TIÊU CÁC NHÀ ÁI QUỐC,
CÁC CHIẾN SĨ CÁCH MẠNG ?

- CHÍNH BỌN VIỆT GIAN CỘNG SẢN !

TOÀN DÂN CỰC LỰC PHẢN ĐỐI
NHỮNG HÀNH VI CƯỚP CỦA GIẾT NGƯỜI
CỦA BỌN VIỆT GIAN CỘNG SẢN
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Compatriots, ask yourselves:

* Who forces peasants to do forced labour, pay money, hand over rice?
* Who mines ferries and robs goods and passengers' money?
* Who kidnaps young men to be soldiers and shoots innocent compatriots?
* Who throws grenades to kill women and children?
* Who creates scenes of son killing father, brother killing brother?
* Who eliminates patriots and revolutionary fighters?

- The Communist traitors themselves!

The whole people strongly oppose
the robbing and killing acts
of the Communist traitors
```

'Làm xâu' is rendered as forced labour and 'giựt mìn xe đò' as mining passenger vehicles; the rendering is approximate.

[← Việt Cộng sát hại dân lành, Vietnam Photo News poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-cong-kill-civilians-vietnam-photo-news-poster-saigon-1964/) [Adelante Alianza para el Progreso poster (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/adelante-alianza-para-el-progreso-poster-spanish-1964/)

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