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title: Compatriots
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/compatriots-binh-duong-ralliers-1967/
description: A yellow text panel beside a large group photograph of seated men tells 'dear friends' that more than 700 comrades rallied in Binh Duong under the Chieu
section: Collection
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# Compatriots

A yellow text panel beside a large group photograph of seated men tells 'dear friends' that more than 700 comrades rallied in Binh Duong under the Chieu Hoi programme in January 1967 and urges the reader to rally and share in 'happiness, freedom, peace and prosperity'. Below, columns of small type list the names and units of the ralliers. The tell is the crowd and the roll of names: numbers and named individuals stand as proof that many have already come over.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CÁC BẠN THÂN MẾN,
Hơn 700 anh em đồng chí của chúng ta đã về hồi chánh tại Bình-Dương theo chương trình chiêu hồi của chính phủ trong tháng giêng 1967. Hãy về hồi chánh và để cùng toàn thể hưởng chung một năm mùi trong hạnh phúc, tự do, hòa bình và thịnh vượng.

Diệt Cộng bằng cách Chiêu hồi
Không hao súng đạn lại lời máu xương

Những người Quy chánh có tài
Được thu dụng để chen vai diệt thù.

[Roster of several hundred rallier names with places, in small type, not transcribed]

SP-1837
```

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

```
DEAR FRIENDS,
More than 700 of our brother comrades have rallied in Binh-Duong under the government's Chieu Hoi programme in January 1967. Come back and rally, and share together a year of taste [i.e. enjoy together a year] in happiness, freedom, peace and prosperity.

Destroy the Communists by way of Chieu Hoi
No spent bullets, no blood and bones

Ralliers with talent
Are taken in to stand shoulder to shoulder and destroy the enemy.

[Roster not transcribed]

SP-1837
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The roster of names is omitted; the phrase 'một năm mùi' is rendered tentatively.

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