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title: 'Demoralization Leaflet 26: Gạo Bắc Việt (North Vietnamese Rice) cartoon'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/demoralization-leaflet-26-mao-rice-1966/
description: 'Two-panel colour cartoon in orange, black and grey. Left: a heavy seated man (Commons identifies Mao) sits on sacks marked ''Gạo Bắc Việt'' (North…'
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Cartoon depicting enemy soldiers with animal heads, a bloody trident and a skull. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Demoralization Leaflet 26: Gạo Bắc Việt (North Vietnamese Rice) cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/demoralization-leaflet-26-mao-rice-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/demoralization-leaflet-26-mao-rice-1966.jpg)

# Demoralization Leaflet 26: Gạo Bắc Việt (North Vietnamese Rice) cartoon

Two-panel colour cartoon in orange, black and grey. Left: a heavy seated man (Commons identifies Mao) sits on sacks marked 'Gạo Bắc Việt' (North Vietnamese rice) holding a rifle and a trident, facing two uniformed figures with a buffalo's and a horse's head. Right: the same two figures march with a rifle and a blood-dripping trident toward a signpost 'Miền Nam' (the South), where a skull and bones lie in blood. The tell: enemy soldiers are drawn as livestock driven to their deaths for another power's benefit.

## Text on the object

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

```
GẠO BẮC
GẠO BẮC VIỆT
GẠO BẮC VIỆT
[signpost] MIỀN NAM
```

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

```
NORTH RICE
NORTH VIETNAMESE RICE
NORTH VIETNAMESE RICE
[signpost] THE SOUTH
```

Only the sack labels and the signpost carry text; any caption text on the full leaflet is not in the hosted image. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Cung chúc Tân Xuân (Happy New Spring) Tet greeting leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cung-chuc-tan-xuan-tet-greeting-leaflet-1966/) ["Garantía de la paz, garantía del futuro": Spain's national referendum poster, 1966 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/franco-referendum-garantia-de-la-paz-1966/)

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- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
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