---
title: If Chinese Communists Flood into Vietnam (Vietnamese poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/devastation-caused-by-communism-vietnamese-1951/
description: A Vietnamese-language poster in which a barefoot mother clutches an infant and a naked child beside a tree while a village burns behind her in the rain.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Painting of a barefoot, half-clothed mother and two children before a burning village, kept whole. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![If Chinese Communists Flood into Vietnam (Vietnamese poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/devastation-caused-by-communism-vietnamese-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/devastation-caused-by-communism-vietnamese-1951.jpg)

# If Chinese Communists Flood into Vietnam (Vietnamese poster)

A Vietnamese-language poster in which a barefoot mother clutches an infant and a naked child beside a tree while a village burns behind her in the rain. The headline starts 'If Chinese Communists flood into Vietnam...' and the red line completes the threat: nowhere to shelter. The harm is conditional and imminent, and the protection offered is resistance to the invasion the headline describes.

## Text on the object

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

```
NẾU TRUNG.CỘNG TRÀN SANG VIỆT.NAM...

NGƯỜI VIỆT SẼ KHÔNG NƠI DUNG THÂN.

HÃY CHỐNG TRUNG.CỘNG XÂM.LĂNG !
```

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

```
If the Chinese Communists flood into Vietnam...

Vietnamese people will have nowhere to take shelter.

Resist the Chinese Communist invasion!
```

Printed with a full stop inside the compounds 'TRUNG.CỘNG', 'VIỆT.NAM' and 'XÂM.LĂNG'. An artist's signature at lower right is [illegible]. FRAME translation (machine, not fluent-reader verified).

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